It’s official! McCaleb Homes is now in Norman! We’ve broken ground on a brand new Bungalow Collection home at 1440 Beverly Hills Street at Berry and Lindsey. This home will be our Alcott design. A favorite due to the beautiful wrap around porch, planning center and scenic views. Come by and check it out and let us know how much you love it!
Congratulations Edmond, Oklahoma! We’ve been named the #1 BEST TOWN FOR FAMILIES 2010 by Family Circle Magazine. If you are looking for a new home in Edmond with great style, educational schools and affordability, visit us at www.mccalebhomes.com. McCaleb Homes is your builder!
http://www.familycircle.com/family-fun/money/10-best-towns-for-families-2010/?page=1
Perhaps at no other time in history has the decision to invest in a new home had absolutely nothing to do with the home at all. I was reminded of that this week. A great family of 4 visited one of our brand new McCaleb Homes, fell in love with it within the first 30 mintues and asked me, “Now, how can you help us buy this home?” It was my job as a New Home Consultant in this case (and so many others lately) not to feature-dump the beautiful crown moulding, granite countertops or wine grotto (that was the easy part). It took a full week to jump through hoops to figure out how to help them sell their home, tackle an existing damaged roof, come up with cash for closing, fix credit report blunders, find the best bank for financing and finally get them approved. Buyers today are understandably shocked to find out that lending guidelines are much different than the easy 100% financing days of 5 or 6 years ago. Our whole economy is different now and the mortgage world has tightened up for our protection. It is now our job to educate and help our Buyers through this process. Thanks to Dave Carson and Steve Siglianio at Santa Fe Mortgage for inviting us to their Wells Fargo educational seminar this week. As the tax credit expires in June, everyone questions the sustainability of the strong first-time homebuyer trend and wonders what the second half of the year will bring. Many experts expect interest rates to raise to just under 6% for the rest of the year (lock in now at 5% or better!) and to continue to see the 1st timers to monopolize the market.
The great news is that as the Tulsa World announced this week “Oklahoma is the #1 State in Home Equity Values”. Oklahoma is a great place to invest in a new home and now is a fantastic time. Interest rates are at their LOWEST in over 30 years and although since the market is strengthening, homes are selling more and more, there are still a great amount of homes to choose from out there.
For more information on how to finance your new home or how to sell your current one (oh, and we have beautiful new homes for you to fall in love with too!), call us today at 341-5225 or visit our website at www.mccalebhomes.com
Jennifer Hodgens
Sales Manager
McCaleb Homes
We are very excited to be notified that McCaleb Homes will be the recipient of the “Best New Home Development” award for the Edmond Sun’s “Best Of” Awards for our Arbor Creek community. Since Arbor Creek’s grand opening in June, it has experienced unprecedented popularity and growth due to the fantastic east Edmond location, affordable price range from the low 200s to the 300s and perhaps most of all, the unique historically inspired 1930s craftsman Bungalow styled homes. “It’s so refreshing to see homes that look so unique and inviting. I feel like I’m walking down a streetscape in old town California!” exclaimed one visitor last week. With three homes still available for the $8000 first time homebuyers or $6500 existing homebuyers to invest in by June 30th, you shouldn’t wait to stop by and customize one to match your style soon. We are also currently reserving the pick-of-the-litter lots in phase 2 of Arbor Creek for new custom homes to begin construction later this Spring. Stop by our furnished model home, visit us online or call the office for more information.
Jennifer Hodgens,
Sales Manager
What Quality Looks Like
Feb 15
Builders are always talking about “quality,” but few can explain what they mean to their new-home clients. This should not be a mystery; construction quality is easy to see when you know what to look for. As a professional builder, we not only take pride in creating high-quality homes, but also in making sure that our homebuyers experience quality and understand the difference it makes.
The building process is relatively foreign to those outside of the industry. The best way to help a homebuyer understand the construction process and appreciate the value of the high-quality materials and methods we employ is to schedule visits to the job site at key milestones.
Walking through a newly framed home, for instance, allows us to point out the tight tolerances we require from our framing crews. On-site, we can show examples and explain why these standards help to ensure reliable performance and comfort in the finished home.
After framing, homeowners can watch the ways that we install the home’s wiring, plumbing, and mechanical systems. Our exacting specifications make sure that those systems perform as designed and promised. As construction continues, we encourage new homeowners to schedule similar walk-throughs so we can showcase the high-level materials and methods we use to build homes. What is difficult to articulate in the office becomes clearly demonstrated as the house takes shape.
We also consider the conditions of our job sites as an indicator of quality. We expect, for instance, that our crews and trade partners maintain a clean site. Disposing of trash and scrap materials not only makes for a professional work environment, but also a safe one. We believe that our insistence on a professional looking job site translates to professional, superior-quality workmanship.
As a new home nears completion, quality is even easier to see and understand from a homebuyer’s point of view. Again, adhering to tight tolerances, we work hard to make sure that walls are smooth, that cabinets, trim, and other fixtures fit snugly into place. We make certain that windows and doors operate smoothly, and that flooring and other finishes are installed to meet the expectations of our discerning clientele.
But the true test of quality construction is occupancy. New homeowners will understand what we mean by quality after living in their home for a while. How our homes stand the test of time and the rigor of everyday living is a testament to the quality we strive to achieve from the foundation to the rooftop.
Warm regards,
Caleb McCaleb
McCaleb Homes is proud to be an Energy Star builder saving homeowners money on their utility bills and saving our earth precious resources.
All new homes look great from the outside. But to make sure that your next new home is truly energy efficient, it’s important to look “behind the walls.”
Homes that earn the ENERGY STAR include four “must have” features behind the walls that will make you more comfortable, reduce utility bills, and help protect the environment.
For more information on the important features in an energy star home, visit http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=behind_the_walls.btw_landing
McCaleb Homes is in the news again. Wondering how Oklahoma is faring this housing recession better than other states? Successful builders meet the demand for lower priced homes. Check out this article from the Daily Oklahoman today. http://newsok.com/builders-meet-demand-for-lower-priced-homes/article/3435829?custom_click=rss
You be the judge…
Jan 10
Well it’s the beginning of a new year and so the planning and preparation begin. We’re looking forward to the 2010 Parade of Homes event this fall and beginning to make plans for our show home this year. We will once again spotlight our showcase home in Canyon Lakes, off Kilpatrick Turnpike and Council in North Oklahoma City. We need your help and expertise to let us know what special style and design techniques you are looking for. So, please post a response and let us know! French country? Old World? Mediterranian? Bungalow? Country? The more opinions the better! You be the judge.
Thank you to Chris McIntire for this great letter of recommendation. We appreciate fantastic clients who become part of our McCaleb family. Read Chris’ letter and others like his under our Testimonials page or scroll down to read it too.
Caleb McCaleb
To Prospective Buyers of McCaleb Homes
Almost a year ago my wife and I purchase a home from McCaleb Homes and have had a really great experience from the beginning dealing with the McCaleb staff and with Caleb McCaleb personally. While buying a home is a lot of excitement, it also involves a lot of anxiety about the questions that pop up like;
Did I negotiate well? Is this really a good builder?
Is the construction done well?
Will they REALLY help fix things after they sale? i.e. “warranty work”
I have purchased and owned 5 homes and plan on this being my last one so I really wanted to get it right and am so glad we invested in our home built by McCaleb Homes.
When negotiating the price I asked a lot of questions about lot price compared to other lots in our neighborhood and others to make sure I wasn’t spending too much there and was pleased to find out I was paying a fair value. When looking at the construction costs I did find some other builders that were cheaper but it seemed like all the finishing touches weren’t there and this was a home I really wanted to live in so I kept shopping. There’s a HUGE difference between good price and good value especially in home construction where you can’t see how the home was framed, plumbed, wired, etc. I’ve purchased too many things in my life for the best price that cost me twice as much over time that I really regretted.
We decided to buy a McCaleb Home and began the process of having it finished out and added on to it as well. We found that McCaleb’s group had anticipated almost all of our needs that other builders would have left out and added as “extra” expenses so we wound up on a budget. There was even a miscommunication (inevitable) where McCaleb Homes agreed to enlarge the footprint at no increase to the cost to us! While it was relatively minor, it was a nice surprise. Caleb explained that he bid it out to accomodate some flexibility and allowances for us to add things without adding to the price if it could be avoided. What a great surprise.
Also, in the last 10 months McCaleb Homes has come out to fix/repair no less than 20 items without hesitation or complaint. They have fixed a banister, a small piece of trim, a couple of small leaks, the HVAC unit needed adjustment for our zones to work right, adjusted an exhause fan in a bathroom, rehung a door, adjusted gutters once we saw how the rainfall drained, replaced some peices in a ceiling fan, etc. If you have EVER owned a home, especially a new home, these are the things that drive you crazy and McCaleb Homes has responded without ever making us feel like we are a bother.
In our neighborhood, several homes were built by a cheaper builder and we have heard the horror stories about poor engineering of the lot, bad drainage issues, roof problems and worst of all, no follow up on the promised warranty work the builder said would be “no problem” when he was trying to get them to buy from him.
We couldn’t be happier with our new home and feel like we made the best decision possible in our new home and our homebuilder. I’m fairly handy around the house, but the good news is – I don’t have to be! When I come home, I actually get to relax.
I wasn’t asked to write this letter. I did because I wanted to help McCaleb Homes communicate to customers how good they are because they have been so good to me and my family.
Sincerely,
Chris, Katie, Colin, Kelsey, Corey, Connor, Khloe, and Coby (the dog) – The McIntire Family
Last week, MSN article proudly published a BusinessWeek ranking of the nation’s top 40 metro communities and their strength and ability to pull out of the economic and employment recession. Proudly, they announce that Oklahoma City rank as the third “Strongest US Metro“. BusinessWeek.com ranked these top cities based on job growth, employment, economic growth and home prices.
“The Oklahoma City metro area, which includes the state capital, is an oil and natural gas center that is home to Devon Energy and Chesapeake Energy. Home prices grew 2.1% in the second quarter compared with the same period a year earlier.”
This great news proves why it’s a great investment to live in Oklahoma and why with current all-time low interest rates, NOW is the time to buy.
Call or email now for information on McCaleb Homes available for the Holidays.
Jennifer Hodgens
Sales Manager
341-5225