Massachusetts Real Estate: Creating Curb Appeal With A Porch, Portico, or Architectural Details For Instant Sales

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(Free-Press-Release.com) January 13, 2012 -- The call came in at approximately 9:30AM on a foggy April morning. The customer was interested in pricing a rebuild of his front porch.

After explaining that I was only interested in using quality woods in the construction of the porch, his interest peaked. I have been biased against all the new materials introduced for decking and porch posts. I have been using hemlock, cedar, mahogany, and redwood on my porches for years without a complaint. I wasn't going to build this porch otherwise even at the customers request or a deal from the distributor.

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Massachusetts Real Estate: Creating Curb Appeal With A Porch, Portico, or Architectural Details For Instant Sales

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Upon arrival at the home I found this particular porch in disrepair. Nothing less than a total rebuild would be acceptable; even though I was asked to price the deck and save the roof. I explained that to the customer and he agreed.

To keep costs within a specific budget we cut many frills from this porch rebuild such as spandrels and brackets. The homeowner opted for an open rafter roof for a California look. After six weeks of construction, waiting for orders, and inspections we had a beautiful "unfinished porch", but this story is not over!

Two months passed and the town came by for its yearly assessment. To the homeowners surprise the new porch was assessed $24,000.00 more than the homeowner paid for the porch. Not knowing himself if he was happy or irate with the new assessment he hired an appraiser who added $9000.00 to the assessment. The homeowner utilized the angle to make himself happy.

That is the result of utilizing old style carpentry with quality wood porch products (cedar posts, rails, and balusters, with a mahogany deck) The most important part of the project was a respectful partnership between homeowner and porch builder.

www.bostondeckandporch.com provides high quality architectural details, decks, porches, porticos, siding and old house restorations.

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