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Eyes vs. Richmond New Homes

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
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Keep an eye on our Richmond new home experience.

Would you purchase the services of a doctor who offered the lowest price on eye surgery? Would you blindly (pun intended) sign the paperwork and lay on the surgery table if you didn’t see a certificate on the surgeon’s wall showing she had passed the basic requirements needed for graduating as a surgeon? What kind of questions would you ask? Would you be more interested in finding the lowest bidder to perform surgery on your eye? Why or why not? It seems funny to even ask these questions as most would rather pay excessively more for a competent and reputable eye surgeon as they would feel they had a better chance at coming out with the results they were expecting. At Boone Homes, we see (pun intended) this analogy applying to Richmond new homes.

A new home is not measured by price alone. There needs to be a better metric. Price per square foot is not a good metric either. Price per square foot addresses how cheaply a home can be built – what you don’t see behind the walls is just as important as what you do see. Maybe the metric used to measure results should have something do with experience. (more…)

2012 Richmond New Homes Forecast

Saturday, December 31st, 2011
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What the New Year will hold for Richmond new homes

What will the New Year bring us? After the eggnog is consumed, the confetti is cleaned up and the cleaning service has swept up the last streamer, we will gaze into the abyss of the crystal ball to discern the fate of Richmond new homes in 2012. Because a crystal ball is inaccurate, we will resort to the available data to glean what may be in store for 2012. The data seems to imply significant change on the horizon. Used home inventory will remain high, energy prices will continue to rise, inflation will continue to place pressure on consumer goods and new home inventory will be low. What does this mean to a prospective new home buyer?

First: Used homes will always be available and will continue to struggle with energy efficiency. The nostalgia of yesteryear will be available on the New Year’s market and they will continue to compete against new high-performing homes. These high-performing homes are not a trend, they are here to stay and will never be more affordable than they are right now. Used homes will still have the lowest cost of homeownership, but will be competing with high performance homes when the next sales cycle arises. (more…)

A Year in Review for Richmond New Homes

Thursday, December 29th, 2011
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A Year in Review

There is no better time to buy Richmond new homes! This past year has been an exciting one here at Boone Homes. The new home sales trend appears to show that the lows of a recession market have passed or at least stabilized. New homes in Richmond have seen an increase of almost 10 percent in 2011 over the year before. This number is an average for the builders reporting. Some builders, like Boone Homes, experienced an even larger growth percentage. For builders, this increase in sales is the best holiday gift one could get. A hearty “thank you” is due to the buyers who ventured out and purchased a new home in 2011.

The side effect of this gift of increased sales is not for builders alone. The buyer for the new homes has seen home prices stabilize. This stabilization has meant to the buyer that they were able to purchase a quality new home for reasonable price even as inflation has placed upward pressure on the materials needed to build a home. This gift of stabilized pricing means to the consumer that they can purchase a new home in a new home community with new home features and lifestyle without the pressure of distressed properties in the neighborhood.http://www.boonehomesblog.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif (more…)

Great Expectations: Coffee and Paper or Kindle

Friday, July 29th, 2011

Great traditions can be interrupted by the mundane. The morning’s welcoming aroma of percolating coffee prepares the mind for that leisurely morning read. The beckoning of the newspaper or e-book replace cobwebs with sunrise – until the sound of the neighbor’s mower reminds you of the need to beat the summer heat. Setting aside the great tradition of coffee and a good read is no longer necessary in Boone Homes’ Richmond maintenance free homes.

No maintenance homes enhance lifestyle, designed to relieve you of the mundane so you can experience more of life’s great traditions or design and build new traditions. No maintenance homes relieve you of the mundane need to cut, fertilize and aerate your yard, paint your home, clean your gutters and much more. How much time would be available to create memories once the mundane is removed from the routine? I’d be willing to gamble you’d take more time to memorialize life’s little moments. (more…)

Purchasing New Homes in Richmond: Would you do it again?

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

Consumer confidence can be measured a variety of ways. One of the most meaningful ways to measure consumer confidence is by how many times trust is placed in the product being purchased, or brand loyalty. When considering the purchase of mustard, close pins or laundry detergent the choice costs you little and repeating the purchase involves little risk. The larger the purchase the greater the risk each person willingly takes on. Consider purchasing a pizza. What joints will you never frequent ever again? Or consider your last purchase of a car. What makes and models will you never purchase again? Risk exponentially increases with the ticket price of the item. The same is true for those who purchase new homes in Richmond. (more…)

How to Know You are in Good Hands: Richmond New Home Warranty

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

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There is no greater disappointment than purchasing an extended warranty and finding out in the hour of need the warranty will not be honored. The extra monies spent wasted. The dream destroyed. Warranty is a promise. Unfulfilled warranty is a promise broken.

As a leading Richmond custom home builder, we believe in honoring our promises. Each home built is accompanied by a 1/2/5 warranty that is not vague, but well defined in writing and a copy is given to each homeowner. Unlike the warranty from others where you have to raise the issue if something goes wrong, we will contact you first. Commonly, we will send out a letter within 60 days of possession to take the first step in the warranty process. We know that if something is going to go wrong with a home, it will happen in the first 6o days of possession. A second letter will also go out prior to the 1 year warranty expiring. (more…)

Great Expectations: Unbeatable Process

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

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Every athlete has extremely high expectations for themselves. Training, working, resting and more training is due process for excellence. Olympic hopefuls create regimented and precise routines, diets and exercises with the intent of excelling and winning gold during the main event. Their ultimate goal is to perform exceptionally, without error or defect.

Boone Homes, a Richmond custom home builder, has similar expectations. The arduous task of controlling processes was defined and refined by the heart of Boone Homes, David Owen. The refined process has exponentially improved how Boone Homes builds, customizes and assists its future homeowner through building a new home.

The process started with one goal in mind. This goal, the first mission and commitment to every home buyer, is to ensure “your new home building experience will be pleasant.”  With the goal and mission at the forefront the process, selections, construction and critical path were all developed to be as user friendly as possible. The process was not a reinvention of company culture, but a definition of a former commitment of building each home as if it were our own. Because of the Boone Homes process we can convey 99.7% of all homes on time and defect free. (more…)

Great Expectations: Expected Virtue

Friday, July 15th, 2011

When buyers decide to build new homes in Richmond there are many expectations, though one stands out from the crowd. The expectation is that the home will be built in a quality neighborhood with quality materials and exceptional workmanship. This expectation, though anticipated, isn’t always inspected, leaving many homeowners with their hands full in a difficult neighborhood after the builder warranty runs out of service. Sadly, the pursuit for quality is vague and the definition is left to the sales person profiting from the transaction instead of being defined by the industry and homeowners who live in the homes.

Boone Homes is building homes with a keen attention to quality. This quality plays out in several areas which I will now list: (more…)

Great Expectations: How Does it Work?

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

When it comes to new homes in Richmond, there can be a sense of mystery surrounding the unknown. The mystery of the unknown is, “do I live with the devil of the house I’m in with all the shortcomings that are so apparent, or take a chance with the unknown quantity of what a new home would provide.” After all, many of us have heard reports of homes not performing to expectations. Though this may be the case with some builders, Boone Homes has raised the bar on performance as well as what can be expected.

Since it is summer in the Mid-Atlantic we can begin talking about the energy consumption one can expect from a home. To level the playing field a little, we will do this comparison on energy price per square foot. The homes surveyed are approximately 3,100 square feet in size with similar amounts of rooms, bathrooms and unfinished space.

Here is the grid.

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Richmond Custom Home Builder Testimonial

Friday, July 8th, 2011

Bob and Mora took their time in seeking out the right place to live. Their desire was to find a family estate neighborhood of new homes in Richmond that would be conveniently located with the best lifestyle features. Once they found the Haywood Village at Charter Colony, they realized that they had found their dream. After plenty of research, they realized that they could confidently commit to living in a Boone Homes’ luxury new home community. Their experience has been rewarded. Take a look at this video and judge for yourself. (more…)