Joseph R. Masefield, the multihyphenate who co-wrote the 1979 film “Don’t Go in the House” and supervised sound editing on Sam Raimi’s “The Evil Dead,” died Sept. 24 in Brooklyn, New York. He was 92.

A good rule of thumb: If it costs you $2,500 to update your bathroom, you should see a market gain of $10,000 to justify the improvement. The philosophy of not spending big money on improvements ...