Think You Can't Qualify for a New Home? Think Again.

Think You Can’t Qualify for a New Home? Think Again.

Qualifying for a home is more challenging than ever. If you haven’t cleared that hurdle–or have been afraid to try–watch this video. Linda Butterworth is a Pardee Homes Sales Counselor and she tells you about HomewardBound, our step-by-step credit analysis, enhancement and repair program. This program is helping to clear the path to home ownership [...]

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Tips for Organizing Your Home Office

Tips for Organizing Your Home Office

Whether you have a home-based business, telecommute or run a busy household, a key to efficiency and productivity is a well-organized office. Make your work/life details a snap with these tips to get your home office organized. Ready. Set. Go.   Create a designated work area. Experts at HGTV explain that home offices should have [...]

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Holiday Giving is Alive and Well at Pardee Homes

Holiday Spirit is Alive and Well at Pardee Homes

Giving back to the communities where we work and live has been a part of our culture at Pardee Homes for the past 90 years. Nine years ago, we decided to pass on the company holiday party so we could do even more for select charities. Pardee’s financial support combined with employee volunteer hours and [...]

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Pardee Homes Rated Number One in Customer Satisfaction

Pardee Homes Ranked Number One in Customer Satisfaction

Number One. That’s a position every company covets – especially when it comes to customer satisfaction. Not surprisingly, homebuyers have recently rated Pardee Homes’ Inland Empire Division number one in the nationwide Eliant Report’s Key Measurement Scores for Move-in Satisfaction for three consecutive months. To earn a top ranking, you need a quality product. World-class [...]

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New Home? Get Organized without Breaking the Bank

New Home? Get Organized without Breaking the Bank

Start the New Year with a fresh new outlook and a resolution you really can keep! Little steps (can we say bins and baskets?) will go a long way to making big organizational improvements in your home. And who wouldn’t like to find their car keys or cell phone without calling in CSI? The average [...]

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Good News! Higher FHA Loan Limits Reinstated

Good News! Higher FHA Loan Limits Reinstated

On November 18, President Obama signed a bill that reinstates higher limits for Federal Housing Administration-backed mortgages in many markets across the country, including California and certain counties in Nevada. This is good news for homebuyers in all 50 states, since FHA financing supports more than one-third of all home mortgages nationwide. An FHA mortgage [...]

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Building a Green Home: Live Green. Save Green, Too!

Building a Green Home: Live Green. Save Green, Too!

An energy-efficient home costs less to operate than a home without energy saving features. See for yourself what you can save in a green-certified home in our LivingSmart Homes at Fair Oaks Ranch community, backed up by a LivingSmart Environmental Benefits Certificate. Certified Green Professional and Pardee Homes VP Joyce Mason explains what the certificate [...]

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Building a Green Home: Benefits of Native Vegetation

Building a Green Home: Benefits of Native Vegetation

Pardee Homes re-vegetated more than 700,000 square feet of slope back to native vegetation in our LivingSmart Homes at Fair Oaks Ranch community. This brings many benefits. among them, the opportunity for reduced water costs and maintenance by the homeowner association. Native slopes are sustainable and reduce water demand for the community. Native vegetation also [...]

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Building a Green Home - High Performance Stucco

Building a Green Home – High Performance Stucco

A high performance home not only makes your home more comfortable to live in, it can also reduce utility costs. Pardee Homes’ insulated stucco system begins with a weatherproofing step, followed by the installation of a foam that wraps the home with energy-efficient insulation. Learn about this and other utility-saving features of Pardee Homes’ green-built [...]

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Building a Green Home - Fire Safety

Building a Green Home – Fire Safety

Safety is important in any home. Pardee Homes Superintendent Mike Carrillo takes you behind the scenes and inside the walls of one of our green-built homes at LivingSmart Homes at Fair Oaks Ranch so you can see how we’ve installed fire safety sprinklers in these homes. You’ll also hear about some of the steps we [...]

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Sharing the Bounty at Thanksgiving

Sharing the Bounty at Thanksgiving

In the fall of 1621, Plymouth Pilgrims and the Wampanoag sat down to a three-day feast, expressing gratitude for a bountiful harvest – a celebration that is widely recognized as the nation’s first Thanksgiving Day. Over the centuries, other traditions have been added to this distinctly American holiday. Professional football on Thanksgiving predates the league’s [...]

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