Hey, everybody, I am excited to talk to you for a minute, it’s been a while, about decks. I have lots of people that talk about decks on their homes and decks on homes that they’re looking to purchase, what’s the value of the deck, if they’re gonna build a deck on their home, how should they do the deck.
Let me just give you a couple of thoughts about decks and happy to answer some questions, if you have any questions get back to me.
A couple of things with decks that you want to look at is how much it’s going to be used. Is it in a good location on the home, to where it’s going to be used quite a bit. If it’s in an odd place on the home and nobody’s going to be using it or it’s very small, then I would say don’t spend the money and the effort to build the deck. And then if you’re looking at selling or buying, it probably doesn’t have very much value.
If it’s in a great location, if there’s the ability to use it quite a bit, seasonal, that’s another thing; if you have a short season. I’m in Wallsburg right now I don’t know if you notice because of the view here of the Wallsburg ridge behind me. I love Wallsburg Valley. Anyway, if there’s a short season and you don’t have the means to have a gas propane fireplace type thing, to where you can use it during the winter and not freeze, then that’s not going to be as valuable.
Also the durability of the deck: I’m on the deck right now and they actually put concrete on the deck and they have a metal railing, they have some posts here, but overall this deck is very durable. They’re not gonna have to do very much with it other than staining the post everything else is going to last for a long time.
And the view, if you have a deck with a view that may circumvent a lot of the other issues, even if it’s a small deck, but if it has a view then there is some value to it. So you can see this deck right here has an awesome view. I just love this view looking down into the Wallsburg Valley, the mouth of the canyon here.
So anyway, if you have any questions about decks; the value that is on your home, something that you’re looking to add to your home and the resale value of it, give me a call, shoot me a text, or an email, private message. I would love to talk to you about it and anything else with real estate, I’m open to talk about that as well. Take care and we will see you later, bye.
Best Regards,
Brian Olsen – Utah Realtor
C: 801-318-3108