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Tips for Organizing Your Home Office

Tips for Organizing Your Home Office

on February 20, 2012

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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Why Buy Green?

Why Buy Green?

on September 24, 2011

Buying a new home that is certified green brings real value to the homebuyer – value that is not found in other non-certified green homes. Affordable utility bills, third party verifications, efficiencies that will perform long after you move in. For starters. Watch the video to learn from Certified Green Professional and Pardee Homes VP [...]

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Building a Green Home: Between the Walls

Building a Green Home: Between the Walls

on September 22, 2011

Who doesn’t like a little “inside” information? And when you’re looking for a new home, you want to know about everything–including the stuff you can’t see, right? Certified Green Professional and Pardee Homes Vice President of Marketing Joyce Mason talks to you from our LivingSmart Room at Fair Oaks Ranch, where you can discover the [...]

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Building a Green Home: The Foundation

Building a Green Home: The Foundation

on September 15, 2011

One of the first steps in building a green home is pouring the concrete. Take a peek behind the scenes at LivingSmart Homes at Fair Oaks Ranch with Pardee Homes Superintendent Mike Carrillo, as he walks you through the steps involved, explaining a little bit about the processes that control for quality and safety. LivingSmart [...]

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Behind the Scenes at Hampton Lane with Barbara Ciraface

Behind the Scenes at Hampton Lane with Barbara Ciraface

on September 14, 2011

Pardee Homes’ new home community of Hampton Lane at Pacific Highlands Ranch in San Diego offers gourmet kitchens with sleek slab granite countertops, large preparation islands and cabinets designed for recycling. But we know homebuyers want to give their new home that personal touch! That’s why our design team, including Design Consultant Barbara Cirafice, works [...]

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

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

on September 12, 2011

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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Building a Green Home: Sneak Peek

Building a Green Home: Sneak Peek

on September 7, 2011

There’s a lot of talk these days about green building. We’ve been asking around and we’ve learned that while the concept sounds good, a lot of people aren’t sure what that really means—or why that might be important to them when they’re shopping for a new home. We decided it was time to give you [...]

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Behind the Scenes at Hampton Lane with Mary DiMarco

Behind the Scenes at Hampton Lane with Mary DiMarco

on August 10, 2011

Pardee Homes’ new home community of Hampton Lane at Pacific Highlands Ranch in San Diego opened May 2011. We’re delighted to introduce you to some of the team members who stand ready to help you through every step of your new home buying process. This week, meet Mary DiMarco, sales representative. She helps homebuyers select [...]

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Behind the Scenes at Hampton Lane with Coy Creamer

Behind the Scenes at Hampton Lane with Coy Creamer

on August 3, 2011

Pardee Homes’ new home community of Hampton Lane at Pacific Highlands Ranch in San Diego opened May 2011. Please meet Pardee Homes Superintendent Coy Creamer. He’s going to tell you about some of the up-to-date LivingSmart features you’ll find in green-built Hampton Lane at Pacific Highlands Ranch in San Diego, including a new one-coat stucco [...]

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Helping the Next Generation Into Home Ownership

on July 8, 2011

Parents raise their children to be independent thinkers and doers. To succeed. To find personal and professional happiness. To eventually begin the next generation of family. And, somewhere along the line, to buy a home of their own. Enter reality. Credit scores. Down payment. PMI insurance. Mortgage. Each can be a challenge for the under-30 [...]

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