Henderson, Nev. – July 2018 – Lennar is excited to announce The Outlook, a new community of single-family homes for sale situated in the Lake Las Vegas masterplan. With plans to grand open this September, interested homeshoppers are encouraged to join the VIP Interest List for the opportunity to reserve their homesite before sales open to the public.

“We are so excited about these new homes, all of which are brand-new, single-story designs that are situated along a golf course and up on a ridge to offer incredible, unobstructed views,” said Marcelle Adams, Sales Manager for Lennar Las Vegas. “We’ve created a Next Gen® The Home Within a Home™, multigenerational home design especially for The Outlook. Every new home here will showcase our Everything’s Included® program with high-end appliances and integrated home automation included as standard.”

The Outlook offers homeshoppers a collection of three distinctive single-story floorplans to choose from with sizes that range from approximately 2,320 to 2,600 square feet of living space. Each home also enjoys a large homesite with enough room for a pool, which can conveniently be included in the loan and dug prior to closing to help speed up the completion time.

Situated on a golf course and with homesites up along a ridge, these homes enjoy incredible views. Located in the resort-style Lake Las Vegas masterplan, residents enjoy amenities such as gated privacy, multi-use trails, The Village town center with shops, restaurants, entertainment and more, Reflection Bay Golf Club and the Lake Las Vegas Sports Club with state-of-the-art gym equipment, tennis courts, pickleball courts and swimming pools.

Every new home at The Outlook showcases Lennar’s signature Everything’s Included® program, allowing homeowners to enjoy popular upgrades and features at no additional cost. State-of-the-art kitchen appliances, granite kitchen countertops, integrated home automation technology and more all come included as standard.

Don’t miss out on your favorite homesite at The Outlook! Reserve it today by visiting www.lennar.com/lasvegas!

About Lennar

Lennar Corporation, founded in 1954, is one of the nation’s leading builders of quality homes for all generations. Lennar builds affordable, move-up and active adult homes primarily under the Lennar brand name. Lennar’s Financial Services segment provides mortgage financing, title insurance and closing services for both buyers of Lennar’s homes and others. Lennar’s Rialto segment is a vertically integrated asset management platform focused on investing throughout the commercial real estate capital structure. Lennar’s Multifamily segment is a nationwide developer of high-quality multifamily rental properties. Previous press releases and further information about Lennar may be obtained at the “Investor Relations” section of Lennar’s website, www.lennar.com.

Do you know if you can recycle coffee cups or greasy pizza boxes? If you’re tossing things in the recycling bin out of sheer hope, you might be an “aspirational recycler.” This article, courtesy of The New York Times by Livia Albeck-Ripka, outlines the biggest culprits when it comes to the recycling bin.

Disposable Cups

Your disposable coffee cup might seem like it can be recycled, but most single-use cups are lined with a fine film of polyethylene, which makes the cups liquid-proof but also difficult and expensive to reprocess (because the materials have to be separated). Most waste management facilities will treat the cups as trash.

The plastic lid might be recyclable in your area; check the number inside it against your local recycling guidelines.

Greasy Pizza Boxes

Pizza boxes are among the most common offenders when it comes to contamination, waste managers say. The problem is that oil often seeps into the cardboard. The oil cannot be separated from the fiber, making that material less valuable, and less marketable, to buyers.

But that’s not to say you can never recycle a pizza box, said Marjorie Griek, executive director of the National Recycling Coalition, which promotes recycling in the United States. “If you’ve got a few crumbs in there, that’s not an issue,” she said.

Remember, there are also two sides to a pizza box. If there’s a side that’s not oily, tear that off and recycle it.

Yogurt cups (and other non-recyclable plastics)

After China banned used plastics this year, many municipalities in the United States no longer accept plastics numbered 3 to 7, which can include things like yogurt cups, butter tubs and vegetable oil bottles. Look at the bottom of a container for a number inside a triangle to see what type it is.

Should you keep the caps on your bottles? Some waste managers say it’s fine (as long as they are screwed on tight), while others advise throwing them in the trash. Check your local recycling website to see which plastic types are still acceptable in your area.

Oily Takeout Containers

Even if a container is labeled correctly for recycling in your area, another contamination culprit is food residue: Scraps of pad thai in a plastic tray, or those few drops of bad milk at the bottom of the jug.

Washing out food scraps from recyclables can be just as important as putting the right thing in the recycling bin, said Jackie Lang, a spokeswoman for Waste Management in Oregon.

Plastic Bags

If you have a trash chute in your building, or a long walk down to the recycling bin, you might have gotten into the habit of collecting your paper, plastics and glass in used plastic bags, but it’s important to note that the bags themselves should not be put in the recycling cart.

While we might wish that plastic bags — notorious for dissolving into microplastics and killing wildlife — could be sent to processors with our other recycling, they shouldn’t be. They create a nightmare for waste managers by plugging up machinery.

Dirty Diapers

O.K., we’re not accusing you of attempting to recycle used diapers. But people out there are trying. Waste managers around the United States say they turn up at their recycling facilities often. While there have been some attempts at diaper recycling, for the most part dirty one-use diapers are not considered recyclable and are best put straight in the trash.

Moving into your first home is perhaps one of the most exciting times of your life. Now it’s time to make it your own by adding your personal style through furniture and décor. Here’s a guide to help you start making your new house feel like HOME. To help prepare you for the big day, check out these insightful decorating tips from HGTV.

  1. Clean house at the old place. Even before you make an offer on your first home, get ahead of the game by starting this process. Be strong and rid yourself of anywhere from 25 percent to 50 percent of your old stuff.
  2. Start with the bedroom. It’s where you’ll be spending almost a third of your time when you’re at home, after all. If you’re on a tight budget, opt for new bedding first, but don’t skimp on thread count! Buy as well as you can afford to spend in this area — it makes a huge difference. If you have a little more money, paint the bedroom walls to complement your new bedding. Still more cash in your pocket? Add coordinating window treatments. If you’re really ready to splurge, buy that bed you’ve always dreamed about.
  3. Don’t buy everything all at once. Live in your new home for at least two months before you make any significant purchases. How you think you’re going to use the home and how you actually live in the home are two different things.
  4. Fight the urge to match. Retail stores love to perpetuate the fallacy that everything has to match. A few pieces with the same styling are fine, but any more than that and your home has the lifeless, generic look of a furniture showroom.
  5. Tie everything together with color. If you’ve moved into your first place with furniture that spans the 1960s to now, don’t worry. The easiest, most economical way to overcome this seemingly insurmountable problem is unifying through color. Let’s say you have a sofa that has only one thing in common with the furniture in the rest of your living room: a tiny bit of the color in the fabric is the same as the less dominant color in the rest of the room’s upholstery. Solution? Play up that similarity and make it your living room’s unifying wall color. If that’s too much hard labor for you, find curtains, rugs or accessories in this common hue and see how the pieces begin to complement each other.
  6. Solve practical problems inexpensively. If your kitchen cabinets are drab, for instance, freshen them with paint and change out the hardware. And don’t bother installing overly decorative (and very expensive) cabinet hardware on cheaply fabricated woodwork — it will look out of place and the money can be put to better use elsewhere. In the bathroom, something as simple as replacing the lighting can immediately improve the room’s appearance. If you find the typical incandescent R-type lamps in your new place, replace them with the less “yellow” PAR-type bulbs. Another inexpensive solution with a big payoff is installing dimmer switches to keep light levels low for a midnight bathroom break.