Buying a new home is an investment — probably the most important you will ever make — so it’s important to get the best home for your money. A newly constructed home offers a number of perks. Perks that can save you money and enhance your lifestyle for years to come.
Your Home, Your Choice
Purchasing a resale home means living with the choices the former owners made. A new construction home means you get to choose. Vanbrooke, for example, offers you a choice of four builders who in turn offer dozens of floor plans. Once you’ve chosen, you can add the upgrades and options that make sense for your family.
Lower Energy Bills
A 2018 NerdWallet study found that 30 percent of homeowners say their monthly housing costs, including utilities, are expensive and the cost to heat, cool and illuminate a house can be shocking. New construction homes are on average 20 percent more efficient than homes built 10 years ago. That can save you as much as 30 percent on your monthly electric bill.
Fewer Repairs
Older homes are just that – older. More things will need to be updated and repaired than will comparable items in a new construction home. With a new home you get new appliances, a new roof, a new air conditioner and more.
Your Home is Under Warranty
If something in a new build home needs to be repaired, it is often covered under the builder’s warranty. Warranties cover various components of your house for a specific period of time. As a general rule, builders offer one-year warranties on workmanship and materials, two-year warranties on all mechanical work including the HVAC systems and a 10-year structural warranty.
You Might Get Better Financing
New-home builders often have preferred lenders. Using one to finance your home might get you perks such as no closing costs or buy down rates. And with interest rates at an all-time low, you may find that purchasing a brand-new home saves you more money and gives you more home than you would get with a resale home.
Ready to take advantage of these perks? Visit Vanbrooke and choose your new home today.
Schoolwork can only keep kids busy for so long. At some point, parents will have to find other things for them to do. Without the ability to send them to the park, take them to a movie or even arrange a playdate, parents need a much bigger bag of tricks. Here are a few activities that will keep them occupied and you sane.
Learning Can Be Fun
Just because the kids have completed their assignments doesn’t mean learning has to end. Explore outer space with the help of NASA’s At Home Website. Turn your kitchen into a science lab. Explore the arts, history and foreign places with Google Arts & Culture.
Turn Your Home Into a Kids’ Gym
Kids need to burn off energy and letting the run wild outdoors while you are working isn’t always possible. You can create a great indoor gym. Place couch cushions on the floor and allow kids to jump across them like stepping-stones or use them to practice cartwheels. Use tape on the floor to outline a balance beam challenge kids to walk along the line with stuffed animals or books perched on top of their heads. Stream a kid’s yoga class.
Go On a Field Trip
You don’t have to leave home to visit the new or tour a museum. Do it virtually and for free. Discovery Education offers free virtual field trips complete with companion guides and hands-on learning activities. Monterey Bay Aquarium offers 10 live cams where viewers can sneak a peek at the sharks, do a little birdwatching in the aviary, and they can even check the goings-on in the open sea. Explore the Houston Zoo via webcams. The Smithsonian Museum offers virtual tours of their current and permanent exhibits.
Take Part in Virtual Story Hour
You can’t go to the library for story hour but you can bring story hour to you. Storyline Online streams videos featuring celebrities reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. The #OperationStoryTime tag on social media will bring you to a growing collection of children’s book authors, celebrities and illustrators reading books. Audible has made hundreds of children’s audiobooks for free.
Make an Imagination Box
Fill a box with broken toys, old clothes, small boxes, used paper towel rolls, egg cartons and anything else you might be donating or throwing away. Give the kids tape, glue, pipe cleaners and rubber bands. Challenge them to create art sculptures.
Alternatively, mix and match pieces from different board games and challenge them to create their own game.
Write Letters to First Responders
Help your kids write postcards or thank you cards to local doctors, nurses and first responders thanking them for their help and diligence.
Have a Virtual Slumber Party
Work with other parents to set up a virtual slumber party. Kids can put on their pajamas and meet up through Google Hangouts. Have everyone do the same craft project while chatting. Play slumber party games. Then watch a movie together via Netflix Party.
A comfortable home is a happy home and 32723 Timber Point Drive offers nothing but comfortable living. The four-bedroom home features beautiful tile floors in the living area for easy clean up. Plush carpet in the bedrooms cushions tired feet after a day of play at the Vanbrooke amenity complex. Sunday family pancakes are better when there’s enough room in the kitchen for everyone to help. This beautiful home is available now. Make it yours today.
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This lovely 2,149-square-foot home is priced from the $250,000s.
How Do You Want to Live
How do you want to live? In a master-planned community that gives you more? Then come take a tour of Vanbrooke. We’ve got everything from a relaxing resort-style pool to beautiful trails. Just three miles away from Fulshear fun, Vanbrooke offers small-town living at its finest — without sacrificing modern amenities.
Are there advantages to buying a new home in a master-planned community? Several, but one of the best is the number of choices available to you. Choices that allow you to easily build your dream home.
Your first choice is which builder to trust with your dreams. Master-planned communities typically offer more builders to choose from. Vanbrooke has four — Anglia Homes, Historymaker Homes, Long Lake Ltd. and Westin Homes.
More builders allow you to pick the right builder for you. Looking for a luxury home? Westin Homes is known for delivering elegance and sophistication. Want a home that maximizes space while providing the optimal features you expect? Historymaker may be your ideal choice.
More builders also mean more floor plans, so you are sure to find a design that fits your family’s needs. Long Lake Ltd. offers 31 floor plans in our community. Every plan is different, so you can get a single-story home with a formal dining room or a two-story home with plenty of room for a growing family.
What if want to customize your floor plan even more? That’s not a problem. All of our builders provide numerous structural options and a plethora of upgrades. Anglia Homes’ floor plans allow you to add studies, fireplaces, extra bedrooms and more.
More builders also ensure that you can find a home that meets your budget. Homes in Vanbrooke are priced from the $200,000s, so you can easily find a home you love and take advantage of all the amenities Vanbrooke has to offer.
Choices are good things. Choose your builder and your home in Vanbrooke today!
When it comes to choosing a community, excellent schools are at the top of every parent’s wish list. Young Vanbrooke scholars attend new schools in the Lamar Consolidated ISD, a district known for innovative programs including sixth grade-only campuses.
Experts generally agree that the sixth grade is a major crossroads of a child’s development. These young adolescents are undergoing rapid physical and cognitive changes. They also are experiencing a massive identity shift that affects their relationships with their family, friends and peers. Hormonal changes cause other issues.
Some districts choose to leave sixth grade students in elementary school, others send them to sixth through eighth grade middle schools or junior highs. Lamar CISD recognizes that the needs of sixth grade students are unique, which is why they created campuses that focus on the needs of pre-adolescents to provide a smooth transition to secondary schools.
Vanbrooke sixth-grade students attend Roberts Middle School, which opened last August. Teachers at Roberts are specially trained to address the physical and emotional changes that these students are going through so that they can succeed academically, socially and emotionally. Some of the benefits include:
Lamar CISD is one of only a few school districts in Texas to offer sixth-grade campuses. That means Vanbrooke parents can rest easy, safe in the knowledge that all of their children’s needs will be met. Check out the Roberts Middle School Facebook page for more information.