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Design with Your Pets in Mind

3/29/2015

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Home owners love their pets – and they also love great design with modern function. So it’s no surprise that home builders and designers increasingly are being asked to consider pets when developing floor plans and custom amenities. 


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Creating a Home Office that Works for You

3/15/2015

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Home offices are becoming less of a luxury and more of a necessity with more people telecommuting or running their own businesses from their homes. It is estimated that one in five Americans work from home. And with the fluctuating cost ...

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Tips for Texting Effectively with Clients

3/12/2015

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Right or wrong, in our digitally driven world, communication has changed. Nowadays, it seems that more people use their phone to text than to make calls. And it makes sense, it’s a medium that allows us to read, ponder and reply on our own time—unlike a phone call where the person on the other end of the line is waiting for an immediate response.

Text messages are also read more quickly than emails—90 seconds versus two hours. So, if you want to grab someone’s attention right away, texting seems to be the way to go. So how does texting fit into the new home sales process? The answer is: carefully.

Texting is easy to do, but in the sales world, professionals must understand how to use this medium properly. You can’t text too soon, too often, or with TMI (too much information) — or you’ll risk hurting the relationship before it’s fully developed.

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Are Starter Homes History?

3/12/2015

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Curators at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. are out looking for an owner of an original, late 1940s model, unmodified Levittown, N.Y. home to sell it to them. They want to disassemble it and reconstruct the 66-or-so year-old house in the National Museum of American History as an icon of post World War II social development. 

What about all that a Levitt home stood for and stands for in our minds today? What about housing for a tidal wave of Eisenhower Generation young adults, many of them returning servicemen and women, whose means in the late 1940s and early 1950s were unclear, or meager, or worse. 

All they had was an outlook that shone bright, as earners, as neighbors and community builders, as the future of American society, economics, and culture? 

Is that all history now too?

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Millennial Mojo Rises

3/12/2015

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A new survey released today suggests concerns about younger buyers waiting in the wings are overblown.

The 2015 National Association of REALTORS® Home Buyer and Seller Generational Trends study, which evaluates age ­based differences of recent home buyers and sellers, found that the Millennial generation represented the largest share of recent buyers. 

This was the second consecutive year that NAR’s study found that the largest group of recent buyers came from those who were 34 and younger, comprising 32 percent of all buyers in 2014 and 31 percent in 2013.

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Seven good reasons for buying a new home

3/6/2015

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1.       Energy Efficiency. New homes have the latest environmentally-friendly, cost-saving, advanced technology materials and appliances.

2.       Safety. New homes are built with the latest materials, have passed inspections and conform to current building codes.

3.       Move-In Ready. Choose your own flooring, finishes, appliances and colors. Who wants to spend time changing someone else’s tastes?

4.       Low Interest Rates. Rates remain at near-record lows; lock in a payment that fits your budget.

5.       Low Down payments. The federal government offers options for purchasing your home without a large down payment, especially if you are a first-time home buyer.

6.       Great Selection. With many homes to choose from on the market, get the features you want!

7.       It’s Your Home. It’s more than a house—it’s a place to raise your family, build a sense of pride, make memories and call your own.
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    Christine Duren, Executive Officer-HBRACC

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