Builder For Profits Boston MA

As the real estate market begins to calm down, many worry about making a profit on their homes. Here’s an example of the “follow the builder” profit strategy.

Local Companies

Black Cow Architects, Inc.
(617) 423-2697
112 Beach Street
Boston, MA
Black Cow Architects
617.423.COWS
112 Beach Street
Boston, AK
Bertaux+Iwerks Architects
617 423 6500
105 Beach Street
Boston, MA
Margulies Perruzzi Architects
(617) 482-3232
308 Congress Street
Boston, MA
Dell Mitchell Architects, Inc.
(617) 266-0201
20 Newbury Street, 5th Floor
Boston, MA
Joyce Design Partnership
(617) 426-5685
23 Warren Avenue
Boston, MA
Copley Wolff Design Group
(617) 654-9000
160 Boylston Street, 3rd Floor
Boston, MA
Business Architects, LLC
(617) 424-6273
232 Beacon Street
Boston, MA
Existing Conditions Surveys, Inc.
617-247-9161
398 Columbus Avenue #334
Boston, MA
Eisenberg Haven Architects
(617) 227-1100
123 North Washington Street
Boston, MA

Follow That Builder

In many areas of the country, there are builders who build hundreds of houses each year within a fifty mile radius of each other. They build entire communities, or are one of three to five builders who build entire communities around big employment centers. This is important. Hang with me and you’ll find out why.

Serendipity

The first couple I met who worked the pattern I’m talking about did it the first time almost by accident. They bought one of the first houses built in a neighborhood that took about two years to build out. Toward the end of the two year period, they were out for a walk and, on impulse, went into a house under construction that represented a bit of a “move up” from their home. The same builder who had built their home was building it.

The couple went to the sales office of the builder and found out that the house they’d walked through was already under contract. They were shocked to find out the price was $150,000 more than they’d paid for their home! The house was a little larger, but not enough to account for the difference. In fact, they found out their home had increased $100,000 in value.

A Repeatable Pattern

Builders usually have bright, attractive, cheerful, enthusiastic people on their sales forces. These people often have a wealth of knowledge. They know (or can usually find out) which communities the builder has built in, is building in, and maybe even where they’re going from there. They know a lot about the pattern of price increases for various models. They have some idea of the speed of build out.

It’s also possible to take walks in a builder’s neighborhoods and ask people how that builder is to work with, if construction and “punch list” completion are done reasonably and well, and if they’d choose that same builder again under similar circumstances.

If all the information you develop is favorable, you can start to “follow that builder.” Builders usually sell the first few houses in a neighborhood for less money than any of the homes subsequently built. They’re contracted for before the streets and amenities are complete, and it takes a lot more imagination to see a charming, pleasant neighborhood where now there’s only mud and bulldozers.

Follow the builder is a strategy that has been used. If you like a particular builder, you can use the strategy to put serious money in your pocket.

About the Author:

Raynor James is with the FSBO site -www.fsboamerica.org - FSBO homes for sale by owner. Visit our home buying page - http://www.fsboamerica.org/buyer.cfm - to view and buy homes, houses, condos, land and real estate.


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