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Holiday Check List for Your No Maintenance Richmond New Homes

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
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Holiday Check List of Richmond New Homes

As with any holiday event, one needs to make a list of items needed to purchase or organize before the big joyous occasion. Here is a list of what you need to accomplish to make a memorable holiday event in your no maintenance Richmond new homes.

  • Set the tree and decorate
  • Make cookies
  • Call the caterer
  • Set the table
  • Organize the beverages
  • Enjoy the party

Notice how this list differs from the list you have when you don’t live in a no maintenance home.

  • Rake the leaves
  • Apply fall fertilization
  • Call snow removal company for winter services
  • Clean the gutters
  • Touch up exterior paint
  • Take two pain relievers
  • Set the tree and decorate
  • Make cookies
  • Call the caterer
  • Set the table
  • Organize the beverages
  • Take two more pain relievers
  • Enjoy the party (more…)

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No Maintenance Richmond New Homes Give You More Time

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
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Richmond New Homes Free Up Time for the Holidays

Trees are decorated. Lights adorn. Music is playing the nostalgic tunes of Christmas. Progressively, presents will be wrapped and placed under the tree while the wafting aroma of freshly baked cookies and pies garnish childish ideals of bearded men with red suits coming down the chimneys of our Richmond new homes. All we need now is more time to enjoy the season with those who mean the most to us.

Sadly we are consumed with raking the leaves from the yard and preparing to fertilize, aerate and spread the pre-emergent. All while consulting snow removal and gutter cleaning services and the hunting down the pesky painter who needs to touch up to the trim. Maintenance forces us to consume time, not cookies.

What could you do with the extra time? Could you spend more time with the family decorating the tree? Maybe you could take more time to visit family? What about possibly baking more cookies for the family visit? Any of those activities sound more productive than maintaining a routine. Maybe you need to consider a new no maintenance home.

Our no maintenance homes are built in exclusive communities where seasonal required exterior maintenance is taken care of, allowing you to experience more time. This no maintenance lifestyle evokes ecstatic emotions of relief and awe as one leaves the raking, mowing, irrigating, painting, gutter cleaning and more to a professional. Leaving the routine to the care of professionals frees up time. You cannot make any more time, but a professional service can free up your time.http://www.boonehomesblog.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif (more…)

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Buying Time When You Purchase Richmond New Homes

Monday, November 28th, 2011
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Buying Time When You Purchase Richmond New Homes

Whether it involves work, errands, maintaining our Richmond new homes and everything else that life holds for us, all of us have a prescribed amount of time. We will enjoy no more and no less. Time cannot be measured in value like money. One simply cannot buy more time with more money. Time is measured in experiences, in moments and in memories.

Alan Weiss, a renowned consultant and book writer, once said, “you can always make more money, you can’t make more time.” Weiss’ encouragement was to use your time wisely and shed unnecessary activities so you could maximize your time. I pose the question, what if you could buy more time? What would the price be? Would you take the steps to shed what is costing you what you can never get back?

Here at Boone Homes we offer you the gift of time with the purchase of a home in one of our luxury, no maintenance communities. These communities have standalone homes, like other new home communities. The difference is you don’t have to rake, mow, paint, clean gutters or spend time with the activities that steal time. In shedding these time consuming activities you now can focus your efforts on experiencing life. Is that a tradeoff worth considering? (more…)

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The Value of Comfort in Your Richmond New Homes

Monday, November 21st, 2011
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The Value of Comfort in Your Richmond New Homes

Feet cold? That is a sign that you have lost thermal control over the floor surface in your Richmond new homes. In real terms what it really means is the competing cold air from below has cooled the floor surface to the point where the heat from the room above can no longer take back thermal control over the surface. Big words put simply, you’ve lost your comfort and now the cold is creeping up your legs to your knees.

The creep of the cold has further demonstrated that the cold from outside the home is influencing your heating equipment and forcing the equipment to work harder. I wonder what the extra work is doing to your energy bill?

“But my home is new. Why is this happening?”

Great question: probably because the home was built to code, but not with common sense. According to ENERGY STAR®, homes built to code have the equivalent of .5 mile worth of cracks and crevices that allow air to infiltrate, thereby causing discomfort. You think these cracks and crevices are minimal? Well .5 mile actually equals leaving one window open year round. Nice: very nice. Not so comfortable now. (more…)

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Experience Time in Our Richmond New Homes

Thursday, November 17th, 2011
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Experience Time in our Richmond New Homes

When considering maintenance on your Richmond new homes, what is the cost of time? Supply and demand works with time as well as with any other product. So, what is the value of your time? Is your time best spent raking your yard, cleaning gutters, or painting? Time: We are all aware of our time and place higher value on certain segments of our time. How does the value of time apply to you?

Because of the value of time, we have designed entire neighborhoods around the value of time. These neighborhoods are no maintenance homes.

What does that mean? It means you no longer have to own a rake, you no longer have to own a mower and you no longer have to paint the exterior of your home. The net result of your new home is the experience of time. You now are free to experience what really matters in life and leave behind what consumes the time for experiences. You are free. Go experience life.http://www.boonehomesblog.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif (more…)

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No Maintenance Richmond New Homes Eliminates Blisters

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
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Free Up Your Time with No Maintenance Richmond New Homes

The sounds of fall are in the air around your Richmond new homes. A constant scratching sound of leaf raking, the high pitch whine of the leaf blower and the grunting of the aerator can be heard throughout the town. The evenings are filled with pain medication, blisters and groaning. Ah, fall is in the air. Now to enjoy the pain fully, we will make this weekend a yard maintenance marathon – unless you live in one of our no maintenance communities.

If you live one of our no maintenance new home communities, then you can schedule the French/Italian cooking class being offered by the county’s adult education program, or start preparing for the holidays.

Each of our no maintenance communities is designed to allow you to spend more time experiencing life.   Experiencing life to the fullest does not need to include blisters. Because of this no blister concept, we have intentionally designed homes to maximize lifestyle. Every home built in a no maintenance community is designed for one-level living with all of the main characteristics of great design on the first floor. These first-floor characteristics include the owner’s suite, study or second bedroom, living room, formal dining room and luxurious kitchen. The second floor is designed for the occasional guest, holiday company and visits from family.http://www.boonehomesblog.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif (more…)

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Veterans Demand Reliability in Richmond New Homes

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011

Experience. That is the word that sums up the life of an armed forces veteran. The experience gained in service to one’s country cannot be lightly marginalized. Men and women of the armed forces know what reliability means as they have to rely every day upon the team work of other armed forces personnel. Experience communicates. Each veteran knows how one slip in reliability could cost many lives. Experience is a great reason to celebrate Veterans Day and celebrate reliability.

At Boone Homes we value reliability just as highly. We build our Richmond new homes on prime real estate with precision, intention and craftsmanship. The process of construction and finishes in each home is done with the accuracy to ensure that the most current trends and qualities are observed.

Not only is it important to maintain high standards with what can be seen, we know the value of building quality behind the walls that cannot be seen. Each little step provides the same reliability a veteran would expect from a partner in the field. (more…)

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Real Estate Danger in Richmond (Unless You Own One of Our Richmond Custom Homes)

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
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Quality Richmond New Homes

There are dangers in catching a knife as it drops. The danger is in securely grasping the handle instead of the blade. There are repercussions for missing the handle, some of which could be painful. What would some of those repercussions be? The repercussions of missing your mark and grasping the falling blade can be measured in either adhesive bandages or lengthy visit to the Emergency Room. Sounds like the risk of catching a falling knife are not worth the reward.

Similarly in the Richmond custom homes market, catching a fabulous deal on a used home comes with a set of repercussions. The repercussions could be as simple as the need for maintenance or as profound and catastrophic as reconstruction. The value of a used home needs to be inspected with a keen eye, determining more than the initial cost of homeownership.

What will the cost be to raise the home’s standards of safety, structural integrity and modernization? Will the extra expense of raising the standards increase the value of the home compared to the surrounding homes in the neighborhood? Or, will the extra cost be like catching a dropping knife? (more…)

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