Day: September 3, 2015

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Building Your Dream Home

What to look for in a planned community

Are you looking to purchase a new home for you or your family? The real estate market for a new home is booming all over the country. This could be because of the newer features and amenities that are available in new home. Nearly 65% of home buyers list central air conditioning as an important feature for them, according the National Association of Realtors. Home buyers today also want larger homes. They list storage and space as very important, 89% put in laundry rooms. This would be hard to put into an older unit.

Here are some tips for buying a new home.

  • Get what you really, really want. Working with a home builder and the architect you can add the features you have always dreamed of having, something you cannot do with an existing home. You are a master chef, this could mean designing your dream kitchen. Maybe you like modern homes. Maybe you want shelter from the sun. In Land O’Lakes, Florida, for instance, they have at least 248 sunny days a year. You can work with them on the materials used and the colors of the walls. The house is your blank canvass. These are some of the reasons the real estate market for a new home is so popular right now. We all want things our way!
  • Ask questions. If you tour a model home, you may notice features that you like. Ask if these come with the house you will be buying as opposed to the one they are showing. They want to lure you in to buy a house, that is their job. They are going to make that model home look like th best house ever. Your job is to find out what kind of house you will be getting and how it would be different from the model home.
  • Ask for warranty protection. You cannot do this with a used house but you can with a new one. There’s been no one living in it so you cannot blame any flaws in the house on an irresponsible former owner. The new place should come with a warranty to cover the work done and the materials used. Make sure you read all the fine print in any warranty you get.
  • Have it inspected. It may seem counter intuitive. After all it is a new house and no one has lived it in to spoil it. But did the builders do their job to meet code specifications? Are the materials the same quality you expected them to be? Are there already cracks in places or sags in others? Having someone who is impartial look the place over will give you peace of mind but also help if you do find anything unusual. You may find yourself needing the warranty after all and this make it easier to enforce it. This is something people do not always mention about the real estate market for a new home.

Now you know how to buy a new home. Go make it yours!

If you have any questions, please leave us a comment. We would love to hear from you!

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Do You Daydream About Cows?

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Do you daydream about buying land to become a rancher? It could become a reality if you feel it deep in your bones. The important thing to do before making any sure decisions, though, is to do your homework.

Firstly, it’s important to know the difference between a farm and a ranch. The two words are considered by most dictionaries to be synonyms, though they actually imply different things. Where a farm is an area of land and buildings used for growing both crops and sometimes raising animals, a ranch is used for the express purpose of breeding a type of animal, such as for a horse ranch or a cattle ranch.

Secondly, there are a few key considerations when looking into land plots. The grazing needs of a heifer are different than that of a horse.

When looking into a cattle ranch for sale, for example, it would be extremely beneficial to know the true “carrying capacity.” This means knowing how well the soil on the cattle ranch for sale in question does each year, and how much precipitation the region gets annually. The seller is not the absolute best provider of this information; it would be wise to consult the National Resources Conservation Office to get solid numbers to compare.

Cattle ranches seem to be a popular choice, as there were 89.9 million cattle documented in the U.S. on January 1 of this year. To put that number into perspective, one study showed there are only 2.2 million crop farms documented in the U.S. (but approximately 96.4% are owned by families).

Another important consideration when thinking about entering the ranching business is to not underestimate the amount of time the job will require. Animals need quite a bit of care each and every day, not to mention the business end of ranching. More land and more animals equate with bringing about more work.

If being a rancher and raising animals is a real life dream for you, do yourself the favor of looking into all the variables. What do you know of ranching? Let us know in the comments below.