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Denver, Colo. – October 2017 – Lennar Colorado is excited to host Pumpkin Fest for the month of October, where all active communities are offering free pumpkins. It’s a great time to explore a new Lennar community, bring the whole family, tour the models and walk away with a free pumpkin.
“We love this fun month-long event we that we host at all our communities every year,” said Carrie Castilian, Marketing Manager for Lennar Colorado. “It’s a great way to encourage prospective homeshoppers to visit our communities, and also a fun way to celebrate the first month of Fall.”
Currently, Lennar has over 20 communities across the state of Colorado with new homes that are now selling. They build in 10 cities across the greater Denver market, including Thornton, Aurora, Commerce City, Arvada, Castle Pines, Parker, Erie, Longmont, Denver and Littleton. Each community offers its own distinctive collection of floorplans, giving homeshoppers a variety of floorplans to choose from.
Additionally, homeshoppers can save up to $40,000 off select new homes and communities when they purchase by October 31 and close by November 30.* These savings are available for a limited time at seven different communities across six different cities, including the Candelas and Leyden Rock communities in Arvada, the active adult Heritage Todd Creek masterplan in Thorton, Provenance in the city of Longmont, Flatiron Meadows in Erie, Dove Village in Parker and upscale Blackstone in Southeast Aurora.
Home shoppers will also find various Next Gen® – The Home Within A Home® home designs available at some communities. These special homes were created specifically with multigenerational families in mind and offer an attached private suite that has its own separate entrance, living room, bedroom, bathroom and kitchenette. The layout allows for two homes under one roof and as much direct access or privacy between the two homes that each situation desires.
Every new Lennar home is part of our signature Everything’s Included® program and comes loaded with a high level of today’s popular features and upgrades at no additional cost. These items include quartz or granite kitchen countertops, beautiful cabinetry, large center islands in the kitchen, energy-efficient features, air conditioning, full unfinished basements, stainless steel appliances and so much more.
With communities all over participating in the month-long Pumpkin Fest, it’s the perfect time to get out and explore the right new Lennar community for you. Start your search today by visiting www.lennar.com/colorado.
With hundreds of communities nationwide and homes designed for first-time, move-up and luxury homebuyers, Lennar has grown to become one of the nation’s leading and most respected homebuilders. Lennar has a longstanding history of building homes of enduring quality in only the most well planned and desirable locations throughout the country.
Denver, Colo. – October 2017 – Lennar is super excited to be the first to offer a Student Loan Mortgage Program, created by their preferred lender Eagle Home Mortgage. The program works by allowing homebuyers to receive up to 3 percent of the purchase price of their new Lennar home to pay off student loans.
“We are so thrilled to offer this program because we know that student loan can be a huge barrier to individuals who want to become a first-time homebuyer,” said Carrie Castilian, Marketing Manager for Lennar Colorado. “It’s great to be able to expand even further on what we do best, making the dream of homeownership a reality!”
In the U.S., 41 percent of college educated Americans have postponed trying to buy their first home directly because of their student loan debt. Now, with our Student Loan Debt Mortgage Program, student loan debt no longer has to be a barrier.
Lennar Colorado is offering the program at 27 communities in several cities. With communities in Aurora, Commerce City, Castle Pines, Arvada, Thornton, Elizabeth, Denver, Parker, Erie, Longmont and Littleton now selling new homes that are participating in the program, homeshoppers have a wide variety of locations, home designs and price points to choose from.
Lennar has always distinguished themselves through other builders in part through their signature Everything’s Included® program, which also helps simplify the new homebuying process while adding tremendous value. It works by including today’s popular features and upgrades as standard, instead of charging extra to the purchase price of the home, which in turn allows homebuyers to get the home of their dreams without having to watch the price tag climb.
Because of Lennar’s national purchasing power they are able to include today’s hottest features in their new homes in an affordable way. Lennar Colorado offers Everything’s Included features in all their new homes such as granite or quartz countertops, beautiful kitchen cabinetry, the latest in home automation technology, commercial strength Wi-Fi and so much more, with specific features varying per community.
It’s a great time to enter the new home market and the Student Loan Mortgage Program is making it easier for many homebuyers than ever before. Start your search today or learn more by visiting https://www.lennar.com/New-Homes/Colorado/Denver/Promo/COSLEN_Eagle_Student_Loan_Program.
With hundreds of communities nationwide and homes designed for first-time, move-up and luxury homebuyers, Lennar has grown to become one of the nation’s leading and most respected homebuilders. Lennar has a longstanding history of building homes of enduring quality in only the most well planned and desirable locations throughout the country.
Limited Time Only, the availability of student debt assistance through the Student Loan Debt Mortgage Program is limited. Offer available on select and qualifying inventory homes. The Student Loan Debt Mortgage Program is a Fannie Mae pilot program and is currently only available to purchasers of Lennar Homes, LLC (“Lennar”) that finance through Eagle Home Mortgage, LLC (“Eagle”). You are NOT required to use Eagle as a condition for purchase of a Lennar home. However, as a pilot program, the Student Loan Debt Mortgage Program is only available through Eagle. This offer is subject to borrower meeting approval guidelines. The Student Loan Debt Mortgage Program and seller contribution limits are subject to certain Fannie Mae terms, conditions and restrictions. Rates and terms are subject to change without notice. Contact your loan officer for Student Loan Debt Mortgage Program details and your new home consultant for home purchase details. You are free to shop around to determine that you are receiving the best services and the best rate for these services. Lennar and Eagle have business relationships with each other. Lennar and Eagle are, directly or indirectly, wholly owned by Lennar Corporation. For additional information please visit their websites www.Lennar.com and www.eaglehm.com. This offer is subject to change and may be withdrawn or discontinued at any time without notice. Eagle Home Mortgage, LLC – Company NMLS #1058. RMLA #4130383.
Florida’s hot, humid summers and short, mild winters can make home gardening a bit tricky, especially for those who have yet to develop their “green thumb.”
However, by paying special attention to the changing seasons and sticking to crops and plants that are known to thrive in Florida’s tropical climate, your backyard garden has the potential to flourish.
Whether you’re planning to grow vegetables and herbs for fresh garden-to-table meals, or just want some pretty flowers to admire in your yard, here are few tips to get you started.
Here are some recommended crops to try growing at different times throughout the year:
October: This is the month for veggies (and one fruit)! Try broccoli, cabbage, spinach, squash, corn, and tomatoes (did you know tomatoes are a fruit, not a vegetable?).
January: While January is too cold for most crops, juicy watermelon will thrive in central and south Florida gardens at this time.
April: Go for sunflowers!
July: It takes a special plant to withstand a Florida summer, but several tropical crops will thrive. Try hot peppers, basil, eggplant and pumpkins (the “Seminole” or “tropical” varieties will fare the best.)
Ready to put these tips to use? Many Lennar homes in the Tampa Bay area are built on spacious lots that provide plenty of room for a fruitful garden. View our available homes on Lennartampa.com.
The number of internet-connected homes with smart home products have increased compared to last year. This includes voice-activated devices which often influence additional home automation purchases. Aaron Baar breaks down the numbers in this new article via MediaPost. Visit Lennar.com/EI to learn more about the Connected Home by Lennar, the first Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ Home Design that keeps you connected to the most desirable technology brand devices, all of which are included with your new Lennar home.
Though still relatively minor in terms of overall penetration, home automation is catching on with consumers.
According to research from The NPD Group, 15% of American households with internet own a home automation device, up from 10% in April 2016. Dollar sales meanwhile, are up 43%, led by growth in security and monitoring devices, and strong gains in video doorbells (up 123%) and smart lighting (up 83%).
The gateway to home automation, it seems, is through voice-activated wireless speakers (of which ownership has tripled in the past year). More than a third (36%) of smart home device owners have a voice-activated speaker and more than half (57%) of Google Home owners said they bought their first home automation product after owning a speaker. (The same holds true for 48% of Amazon Echo owners.)
Not surprisingly, younger consumers are most likely to own voice-activated wireless speakers and a home automation device. However, 11% of consumers 35-54 have a voice-enabled speaker (up from 7% last year; ownership among those 55+ grew to 6% from 1% in 2016).
“The voice-enabled speaker market is expanding quickly,” said Ben Arnold, executive director and industry analyst for The NPD Group, in a statement. “As sales of these devices continue to grow, and more voice-enabled applications are developed, the use case for intelligent voice speakers, particularly as it relates to home automation devices, will continue to expand.”
Source: Consumers Showing Affinity For Smart Home Products 10/13/2017
El Dorado Hills, Calif. – October 2017 – Set inside the amenity-rich and award-winning Blackstone masterplan, Lennar’s The Enclave offers new homes for sale including The Mahogany plan, a Next Gen® – The Home Within A Home®. Created specifically for multigenerational families, this residence also showcases Lennar’s new Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ home design and new Everything’s Included® package that now features home automation.
“The Enclave is a great community, set in a prime location against the gorgeous rolling landscape of El Dorado Hills,” said Laura Kilgore, Director of Marketing for Lennar Sacramento. “Our popular Mahogany plan, a Next Gen® home, is a great opportunity for extended families to live together without having to sacrifice privacy.”
The new homes for sale at The Enclave come in four distinctive floorplans that range in size approximately from 2,150 to 3,529 square feet and come in both single and two-story designs. The largest is The Mahogany plan, which accommodates multigenerational living by including an attached private suite with its own separate entrance, living room, bedroom, bathroom and kitchenette. Between the Next Gen® suite and the main home, The Mahogany offers four bedrooms, three-and-a-half bathrooms, an oversized loft, upper deck off the master bedroom, gorgeous outdoor California room and a split three-bay tandem garage that gives the Next Gen® suite its own garage access.
The Mahogany plan also showcases Lennar’s Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ Home Design, which features wireless access points that are mapped out and built into the home to offer seamless coverage throughout every square foot. It’s a part of their new Everything’s Included® package that now offers home automation products from today’s most trusted brand at no additional cost to the buyer. These include smart climate control from Honeywell’s programmable thermostats, home security with the Ring Video Doorbell, reliable lighting control straight from your smart phone from Lutron, wireless music with a Sonos speaker, connectivity through Amazon’s Alexa, hands free front door locks from your smart phone from Baldwin and Kwikset, commercial strength Wi-Fi from Ruckus and seamless integrated control with Samsung SmartThings.
Additional Everything’s Included® features also come at no additional cost, such as granite or quartz kitchen and master bathroom countertops, GE® stainless steel appliances, upgraded cabinetry, solar electric systems and more.
The Enclave also provides residents access to Blackstone’s great amenities. The 10,500-square foot clubhouse provides plenty of recreational options including three pools, a spa, large fitness facility, aerobics rooms, locker rooms, children’s play room with outdoor yard, multipurpose gathering area with attached kitchen and cozy living room for events, tot lot, shady pavilions, courtyards, gazebos, fountains, outdoor fireplace and more!
Visit The Enclave or schedule an appointment to tour this home and experience the latest in home automation for yourself. The Enclave’s Welcome Home Center is located at 422 Orange Blossom Court and interested homeshoppers can call 916-905-1613. More information is also available by visiting www.lennar.com/sacramento.
With hundreds of communities nationwide and homes designed for first-time, move-up and luxury homebuyers, Lennar has grown to become one of the nation’s leading and most respected homebuilders. Lennar has a longstanding history of building homes of enduring quality in only the most well planned and desirable locations throughout the country.
Las Vegas, Nev. – October 2017 – Lennar is excited to invite the public to the grand opening for Watermarke, the newest community to join Mountain’s Edge masterplan. The community and model homes will open on Saturday, October 14.
“We are so excited to open this community and present our beautiful new model homes,” said Ashley Max, Marketing Manager for Lennar Las Vegas. “Watermarke is a great opportunity for families and individuals to own new and being set in the Mountain’s Edge masterplan, they will also gain access to great amenities.”
Watermarke is a premier gated community that offers modern new condos for sale. Three distinctive floorplans are offered at Watermarke and home sizes range approximately from 1,071 to 1,480 square. Every home showcases beautiful design details such as open-concept living areas, enviable master suites and two-bay garages.
Adding to the value of these new homes is Lennar’s signature Everything’s Included® package, which offers today’s most popular features and upgrades at no additional cost to the buyer. At Watermarke, these include GE® kitchen appliances including refrigerator, granite kitchen countertops, beautiful cabinetry, energy-efficient items such as LED lightbulbs and programmable thermostats and so much more.
Set in the amenity-rich masterplan of Mountain’s Edge, residents will also gain access to a variety of community perks. These include gated privacy, a fitness center, swimming pool, and clubhouse.
Come out for the event on Saturday and Sunday, October 14 and 15 to view the models and this new community first hand. The Welcome Home Center opens at 11 a.m. and is located at 8577 Insignia Avenue in Las Vegas. Visit www.lennar.com/lasvegas for more details.
With hundreds of communities nationwide and homes designed for first-time, move-up and luxury homebuyers, Lennar has grown to become one of the nation’s leading and most respected homebuilders. Lennar has a longstanding history of building homes of enduring quality in only the most well planned and desirable locations throughout the country.
Do you entertain an unnatural fascination for the macabre and bloody cinematic thrillers like Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Halloween? Perhaps you prefer gory films with a flair of gothic romance, such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula or Sweeney Todd? Whatever your preference, it only seems fitting to excite and complement this interest for filmic carnage with a crimson confection befitting a night of fright immersed in slasher pictures and screams. A treat for grisly appetites, you will slay your friends with this red velvet cheesecake, glazed over in blood-red gelatin icing that has the look and consistency of the real thing. A delectable, red-ily tantalizing delicacy for National Dessert Day (October 14th), this bloody cheesecake is fang-tastic – a succulent sweet to sample before the demise of a fateful character who says, “There are no such things as ghosts.”
The recipe that follows in this blog post is for red velvet cheesecake, which is actually chocolate cheesecake dressed in a masque of red death – shout-out to Poe fans! However, if you prefer the taste of classic cheesecake, but still want the twisted allure of a sanguine delight, skip the dark cocoa powder and use the red dye to mask the classic white cake. Actually, this culinary concept can work with several flavors of cheesecake; all you need is the red dye and bloody glaze to give it that eerie twist.
Recipe (By Heather Tullos on SugarDishMe.com): Bloody Good Cheesecake
Being in the Halloween spirit, I really enjoyed making this bloody dessert. I got a real thrill out of surprising people with the ghoulish pastry, and if you like to shock people with spooky, fun recipes, this is the cake for you! I have added a few notes below that discuss the cake size and creation of the blood gelatin icing – just a couple sticky situations to overcome in recreating Tullos’ cheesecake.
The preparation and baking of this cheesecake is nothing to feel nervous about; Tullos’ instructions for the crust and cake are straightforward and easy to follow. I must admit that my cheesecake came out a little shorter than Tullos’ – you may notice this by comparing my photos to those in her blog, and I believe this may be due to my use of a 9 ½-inch springform pan, while Tullos used a 9-inch pan. It may not seem that great a factor, but baking is an edible science, in which one small change can make a big difference in the final product. Fortunately, the size of my cheesecake did not affect its taste!
The trickiest step in this recipe was the bloody gelatin icing. In her blog, Tullos says she made two separate batches of icing – one with four teaspoons of cornstarch, and another with three teaspoons; following her lead, I found the extra teaspoon makes the icing thicker, almost with the consistency of jam. However, in both cases, when I heated the water/cornstarch blend in the saucepan, the mix quickly thickened and turned white, instead of reaching a simmer like Tullos describes in her blog. Upon adding the corn syrup, the mixture cleared, but tiny white clusters still remained in the gelatin; you may be able to see these “white blood cells”, as I call them, in the image of my finished cake, which has spurred the joke that my blood clotted.
Looking through the comments from Tullos’ followers, one fan seemed to encounter the same issue with the icing, and she noted that you must completely dissolve the cornstarch before cooking to avoid lumps; so, the next time I attempt to produce this blood garnish, I will shake, not stir, the water/cornstarch blend for 30 to 60 seconds. Should you feel frustrated with this method of blood-making though, and you wish for an alternative blood recipe, I find the subject blog on Clockwork Lemon by Stephanie (i.e., How to Make Edible Fake Blood) simple to follow, as it requires three easy ingredients and no heat.
If you savor the bloody cheesecake, you may also relish blood drip cupcakes – a tasty treat topped with edible candy glass!
One year ago, American hero Khris Decapua’s life changed forever thanks to Lennar Charlotte and Operation Coming Home, a non-profit that builds and donates homes for disabled combat veterans. In a heartwarming ceremony, his family received their home in style with a key delivery from a parachute team, surrounded by family and friends.
Since moving in, it’s safe to say that Khris and his family have been busy: they’ve taken to building an aquarium that now houses 12-13 species of fish along with a koi pond in the back yard. “The aquarium truly makes our home unique and we were inspired by visiting the Charleston Aquarium earlier this year,” shares Khris.
For their two-year-old daughter, the Decapua’s have designed a craft room with variety of games and activities. One of their favorite things to do each week is walk down to the playground as a family and enjoy the slide.
“One year later, we’re delighted to hear that Khris and his young family are loving their quality of life,” shares Lennar’s Charlotte Division Manager Mark Henninger. “We’re always honored to have veterans as a part of our Charlotte communities and there’s no question that the Decapua family are beloved figures at Waterside at the Catawba.”
Lake Stevens, Wash. – October 2017 – Lennar Seattle has opened their brand-new Welcome Home Center at Eagle Glen in Lake Stevens. This community is scheduled to open two model homes for touring next month, but in the mean time they can visit the coffee-house style Welcome Home Center for pre-sales and more information.
“We cannot wait to Grand Open this community next month, but interested buyers are encouraged to join our VIP list until then or come in and speak with a New Home Consultant,” said Bill Salvesen, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Lennar Seattle. “Right now we have a handful of homes available for sale at pre-model prices that won’t be offered once it’s time for the Grand Opening.”
Eagle Glen offers five distinctive floorplans, each of which showcases Lennar’s all-new Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ Home Design featuring an elevated level of Everything’s Included® features that now include home automation. Home sizes range approximately from 2,086 to 3,395 square feet and offer four to five bedrooms and two-and-a-half to three-and-a-half bathrooms.
Lennar is the first builder to offer Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ homes, which meet the standards for strong, consistent connectivity throughout the entire home set by the Wi-Fi alliance, a global network. The process for creating these homes starts from the design process, where a series of commercial-strength Ruckus Unleashed access points are mapped throughout the home and then built in during the construction process. The result is reliable coverage throughout every square foot of the home.
Adding to the significant value that the Everything’s Included® program already offers — such as beautiful granite or quartz countertops, upgraded cabinetry and stainless steel appliances – buyers will now also receive a wide range of smart products from top manufacturers at no additional cost. These include smart climate control from Honeywell’s programmable thermostats, home security with the Ring Video Doorbell, reliable lighting control straight from your smart phone from Lutron, wireless music with a Sonos speaker, connectivity through Amazon’s Alexa, hands free front door locks from your smart phone from Baldwin and Kwikset, commercial strength Wi-Fi from Ruckus and seamless integrated control with Samsung SmartThings.
Interested homeshoppers can join the VIP list online or by visiting Eagle Glen’s Welcome Home Center. Located at 1525 99th Avenue South East in Lake Stevens, it’s open seven days a week from noon to 6 p.m. and eager homeshoppers can call 855-761-9436 to schedule an appointment with a knowledable New Home Consultant.
Floorplans and renderings are available online. Learn more by visiting www.lennar.com/seattle.
With hundreds of communities nationwide and homes designed for first-time, move-up and luxury homebuyers, Lennar has grown to become one of the nation’s leading and most respected homebuilders. Lennar has a longstanding history of building homes of enduring quality in only the most well planned and desirable locations throughout the country.
