Pardee Homes Welcomes 100th Buyer at LivingSmart Homes; Amazing 100 Homes Sold to Date at this New, Eco-Friendly Neighborhood

    SAN DIEGO, CA, December 01, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Pardee Homes is rolling out the red carpet to welcome the 100th LivingSmart Homes buyers - Beatriz Moreno and Rigo Navarro. These first time home buyers, who are engaged to be married, were the 100th buyers to purchase at Pardee's exciting new eco-friendly neighborhood in the Inland Empire.

"When we opened LivingSmart Homes earlier this year, we knew the timing was right for a community like this, one designed to save the buyer money and offer versatile, sustainable new home choices at a price point that made sense, but we are surprised and thrilled that we reached this sales milestone of 100 sales so quickly," said Peter Altuchow, director of sales for Pardee Homes. "We're celebrating our success and our commitment to our buyers, with 'meet your neighbor' parties and a very special welcome to our 100th buyers, Beatriz and Rigo."

Pardee Homes is treating the 100th buyers to a gourmet dinner and professional photo session to help them capture this very special time in their lives.

"We're so excited to be in our new home after looking for nearly a year to find the right one," said Beatriz Moreno. "We fell in love with Pardee Homes and were so impressed by the quality of the construction, the sales team and loan process which was handled by Pardee Home Loans. We looked at many, many homes so we knew what we were looking for. The floor plan is great and the community of Canyon Hills in Lake Elsinore is amazing. It is nice to have parks, schools and two recreation centers in the neighborhood. We were able to spend our first Halloween here and that was a great opportunity to start meeting our neighbors."

As for being the 100th buyers, Beatriz and Rigo feel secure knowing that so many other people have discovered LivingSmart Homes too. "We feel secure knowing we bought a home from a home builder who is actively building and selling homes, and that they will be here for us in the future."

With eight floor plans to choose from in three distinct master-planned communities, there is certainly something for every type of home buyer. Award-winning LivingSmart Homes are now selling in Canyon Hills in Lake Elsinore, Tournament Hills in Beaumont and Sundance in Beaumont. LivingSmart Homes were recently named Community of the Year at the SoCal Awards, which honors superior achievement of new home marketing and product design, as well as receiving the 2010 Southern California Consumers Choice Award and the Regional Consumers Choice Award for the Inland Empire.

Priced from the high $100,000s, the LivingSmart Homes are brimming with a wealth of energy-saving, water-conserving, health-promoting and earth-friendly features, including a number of standard energy-efficient features such as Energy Star rated dishwashers, low-E spectrally selective glass windows, fluorescent lights in select recessed cans, dimmer switches and occupancy sensors, and radiant barrier roof sheathing. Buyers can also add such earth-friendly options as roof-integrated solar electric power systems, high- efficiency air filtration systems, tankless water heaters, WaterSmart controllers for landscape, reverse osmosis water system in the kitchen, central vacuum systems, and more. Energy efficiency in a LivingSmart home exceeds California's Title 24 criteria, already the toughest in the nation.

"We've taken a different approach to homebuilding by offering an exciting array of choices in floor plan design, including both one- and two-story homes," said Matt Sauls, regional marketing director for Pardee Homes. "LivingSmart Homes have up to seven bedrooms, two to four baths, two and three-bay garages and approximately 1,132 to 3,099 square feet. Ingenious touches such as gourmet kitchens with slab granite and stainless steel appliances are complemented by a host of room options such as media niches, extra bedrooms, fireplaces, garage workshops, master bedroom decks and a four-bay garage in select plans."

Other features include designer-selected interior light fixtures and architecturally specified recessed lighting, separate interior laundry rooms and spacious master bedroom suites with luxurious bathrooms, private dressing areas and walk-in closets. To make buying a new home even easier, Pardee offers a variety of optional features including value kitchen packages, home wiring packages, bath fixture bundles and LivingSmart packages.

"As important as finding a home in the right size and right price range is the location," said Sauls. "That's why we are offering this exciting new collection of homes in three of our most successful master planned communities in the Inland Empire. Home shoppers can view four model homes in Beaumont at Tournament Hills and four models at Canyon Hills in Lake Elsinore."

Tournament Hills in Beaumont has a gorgeous private lake and about seven acres of park space, walking trails, picnic areas and a new elementary school. Additionally, the LivingSmart Homes' enclave adjoins the East Valley Golf Club, which features 36-holes in two masterfully designed courses.

Sundance, also located in Beaumont, has acres of parks, two neighborhood elementary schools and an abundance of nearby shopping. With great freeway access, Sundance is ideally located in proximity of regional parks and lakes such as Big Bear and Lake Arrowhead, as well as the San Jacinto Mountains.

Canyon Hills offers homeowners trails, parks, schools, convenient shopping and two residents-only recreation centers with beautiful swimming pools, not to mention its proximity to all the great recreational activities that make Lake Elsinore popular with boat enthusiasts, skydivers, wakeboarders and cyclists.

For more information about Pardee Homes and LivingSmart Homes, visit www.pardeehomes.com or call (951) 244-9583 or (951) 769-0308. To visit the models at Canyon Hills in Lake Elsinore, exit I-15 at Railroad Canyon Road and go east 2.5 miles. Turn right on Canyon Hills Road and follow the signs. To visit the models at Tournament Hills in Beaumont, exit I-10 at Oak Valley Parkway and go west, then follow the signs to the models.

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