{"id":76,"date":"2016-10-25T20:30:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T20:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coastlinecontractor.com\/C\/ProgramFiles\/?p=76"},"modified":"2016-10-26T20:55:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T20:55:08","slug":"deconstruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/coastlinecontractor.com\/C\/ProgramFiles\/index.php\/2016\/10\/25\/deconstruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Deconstruction"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"deconstruction\"Scott\u00a0and\u00a0Pamela Gordon\u00a0paid a little under $5 million for a home in Windermere last year. Come tax time, they expect to get back about $66,000 for tearing it down.<\/p>\n

That’s because the Gordons, who are spending more than $4 million to build a new home on the site, took down the original home using a method known as “deconstruction.” In this process, a crew carefully dismantles an older property by hand instead of using bulldozers. The process costs more than a straightforward demolition\u2014the Gordons paid more than $20,000 for the disassembly, roughly double what they would have paid for a wrecking crew. But they were able to donate home materials such as lumber, roof tiles and even lamps to nonprofits for reuse.<\/p>\n

The donated materials were appraised by an appraisal-and-consulting firm at $159,000, which the Gordons can apply to their tax bill to receive a deduction. Based on the Gordons’ tax bracket, Ms. Gordon estimates that will ultimately work out to a savings of around $66,000, or more than three times the cost of the deconstruction.<\/p>\n

“We’re not the kind of people who just come in with a bulldozer and clear a house out,” says Ms. Gordon, whose husband is a venture capitalist. And since deconstruction ended up paying for itself, it was “not a hard decision” to pursue it. The Gordons are now building a five-bedroom, 7\u00bd-bathroom, 6,000-square-foot modern Mediterranean home that they expect to be completed late next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scott\u00a0and\u00a0Pamela Gordon\u00a0paid a little under $5 million for a home in Windermere last year. Come tax time, they expect to get back about $66,000 for tearing it down. That’s because the Gordons, who are spending more than $4 million to build a new home on the site, took down the original home using a method … Continue reading “Deconstruction”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[10,12,11],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-demolition","tag-coastline","tag-deconstruction","tag-demolition"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/coastlinecontractor.com\/C\/ProgramFiles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/coastlinecontractor.com\/C\/ProgramFiles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/coastlinecontractor.com\/C\/ProgramFiles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coastlinecontractor.com\/C\/ProgramFiles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coastlinecontractor.com\/C\/ProgramFiles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/coastlinecontractor.com\/C\/ProgramFiles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"http:\/\/coastlinecontractor.com\/C\/ProgramFiles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/coastlinecontractor.com\/C\/ProgramFiles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coastlinecontractor.com\/C\/ProgramFiles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coastlinecontractor.com\/C\/ProgramFiles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}