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Ten Steps to Select the Right Builder for Your Needs

Check out these ten great tips to select the right home builder for you!

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Ten Steps to Select the Right Builder for Your Needs
By Jay McKenzie

Selecting the right home building firm for your needs and for the type of new home you seek is one of the most important decisions you’ll make in your home buying process.
Fortunately, there are some proven ways to speed up the research and selection process and to help ensure that you find a quality builder who’s a good match to construct your new home.
In addition to the 10 key steps below, you may also want to review the other recommended articles at the end of this piece. They offer questions to ask a builder, a comparison of custom and production home builders, and a guide to who does what in the process of building your new home. Together, this advice can greatly speed your search for a builder and increase your confidence in that decision.
10 Steps to Select the Right Builder
1. Define your needs. What size, type and price range of home do you need?
2. Experience counts. While every builder was once a new builder, experience matters.
3. Are past buyers satisfied? Ask for – and check – references from past home buyers.
4. Verify the builder is licensed (where required) and adequately insured.
5. Is there a design fit? Does this builder have expertise in the style of home you seek?
6. Warranty and service. How does this builder stack up for each?
7. Resale value. Have past homes from this builder maintained or increased value?
8. Industry involvement. Is the builder a member of the local Home Builder’s Association?
9. Tour model homes or customer homes. There’s absolutely no substitute for this step.
10. Look for signs of quality. In workmanship, materials and practices when you tour these homes.
Here’s a bit more detail on each step above:
Define your needs: While some builders construct a broad range of homes, many builders also specialize in a specific type of home, price range, or style. For example, not many firms build starter homes for first-time buyers and also multi-million dollar homes for affluent custom home buyers. The building materials, trade contractors and even the building process itself can differ greatly by type and price of home. Look for a fit here.

http://www.newhomesource.com/resourcecenter/articles/ten-steps-to-select-the-right-home-builder

Ready NOW! Final Opportunity! Beautiful Cotton States Properties Home in Sought After Pope High School District

Cotton States Properties is excited to offer a final opportunity at Williams Landing in Marietta area of East Cobb County.

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Wedgewood Place 

$824,900

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The final home is the Wedgewood Place homeplan.  This fantastic home welcomes you with four sides brick with a covered porch, five bedrooms and four and 1/2 baths and has just been reduced just in time to move in before the holidays!   This spectacular home affords all the luxurious with an open and flowing floor plan showcasing a coffered ceiling in the family room and a gorgeous and relaxing master suite and master bath on the main. The island kitchen and serving bar overlook the vaulted keeping room.  The kids will enjoy the upstairs children’s retreat / media room.  There are four additional bedrooms up, three have their own private full baths. Situated on a cul-de-sac lot with a full basement and a  three car side entry garage, your dream home is ready now. 2385 Lakefront Court

Williams Landing is ideally located between Marietta and Roswell in East Cobb County and has easy access to Historic Roswell, Historic Marietta, Historic Woodstock, Sandy Springs, Brookhaven and Buckhead in Atlanta.  Minutes to Hwy 120 and  I-75 you can be at Lake Altoona in a short ride or the top restaurant and shopping district in minutes. You are also close to Town Center at Cobb, Kennesaw, Cumberland Mall and many other shopping and dining destinations.

Schools are always a huge consideration and Williams Landing is perfectly located in the Pope High School district, a 2009 School of Excellence.    see stats here

For more information contact Mark Judge at (770) 403-5059 or markjudge@aol.com or visit us online

 

*All information is believed to be accurate but is not warranted.  Subject to errors, omissions, changes and/or withdrawal without notice.

School Registration Just Around the Corner….Award-Winning Schools in Cobb County….hurry in to select yours

Why should you consider a new home in Cobb County….it’s the schools!  Cobb County Schools are award-winning schools and scores are above the national average in many areas. In 2013 Cobb Schools scored higher than the 2013 State Averages for College and Career Readiness.  Scores for Cobb County Schools on the 2013 College and Career Ready Performance Index (CCRPI) topped average scores for Georgia schools at all three levels – elementary, middle and high. The Georgia Department of Education today released the second year of ratings under the statewide accountability system, which measures on a 100-point scale the academic achievement and progress of individual schools and their school systems. The state revised several formulas of the 2013 CCRPI for greater accuracy and clarity and recalculated the 2012 baseline scores based on the updated calculations to allow for fair comparison.

Cobb elementary schools scored 81.3, a 1.1 point increase from the readjusted 2012 score and 3.3 points higher than the state average. Local middle schools rated 83.4, a 1.9 increase over 2012 and 8.4 points higher than the state. The CCRPI score for Cobb high schools decreased by six points to 77.7, yet remains 5.7 points greater than the statewide high school average. The combined district score for the Cobb County School District is 80.7.

If your child gets a good basic education than they can excel in college and/or find the career of their dreams.

In Marietta you will find four new home communties.   Barrett Heights, Princeton Pointe, Wesley Manor and Williams Landing.

Barrett Heights  offer charm, natural beauty and picturesque views in a bungalow new home community. Ideally nestled in the foothills of Kennesaw Mountain, Barrett Heights offers a relaxed lifestyle.  Large home lots and tree-lined streets and inspired mountain views welcome you home and encourage lazy evening strolls. Homes start from the $330’s Click here to see available homes  Our Marietta City Schools system is ranked in the top 16% of schools in the country.Marietta High School- see stats here

Wesley Manor is coming soon to the Marietta area in a great location between Roswell and Woodstock, with easy access to local roads such as Hwy 92 and Hwy 120.  Close to I-575, I-75 and Georgia 400.  You will find bountiful shopping at Town Center at Cobb or The Outlet Shoppes at Atlanta or Towne Lake Center.  There are many lakes and parks in the area including Sweat Mountain Park (with  a great Dog Park) and Dupree Park just a few miles away plus many more parks in the area. Click here to see the exciting new home plans.    This amazing new home community is in the  “award winning” Lassiter High School district. Lassiter received recognition in US News and World Report rankings as “one of the best high schools” in Georgia. On Greatschools.org, Lassiter is rated 10 out of 10. see stats here

Princeton Pointe is an exciting new home community with homes starting from the $400’s and is now selling!  Ideally located between Roswell and Marietta off of Sandy Plains Road, the community has easy access to I-75, I-285 (via I-75), Kennesaw Mountain and Hwy 92.  Shopping and dining options are are around you with Town Center at Cobb just down the road and Cumberland Mall within easy distance.  Click here for available homes. Sprayberry High School 2011 School Of Excellence see stats here

Now selling is Williams Landing with homes starting in the $800’s.  With easy access to Hwy 120, I-75 and Roswell, this community is in a prime area.   Close to Town Center at Cobb, Kennesaw, Cumberland Mall and an easy ride down to Buckhead. Click here to see virtual tour  Pope High School 2009 School Of Excellence  see stats here

In the Kennesaw area, you will find Sutters Pond. Comprised of 59 acres of land with large open green spaces, meandering creeks, a 7 acre lake and groves of large hardwood trees, Sutter’s Pond truly is a special place.   When designing the community, the streets were built with slight curves thru the rolling hills making the roads seem to fade away leaving only the natural surroundings and the perfect setting for an afternoon stroll.  The pool and amenity area make sure that you have a great place to cool off and enjoy some relaxation time with the family. Homes start from high $300’s. Now Selling!  Click here to see home plans   Harrison High School 2008 School Of Excellence see stats here

Stop by one of our communities today and check out our new homes, contact us online  or visit our website,