Starting September 1st through September 30th, Touchstone Homes is offering a $3000 Broker Bonus on top of discounted pricing on inventory homes in ALL Touchstone Homes communities in Metro Atlanta! There are over 50 homes to choose from including new homes under construction in Flowery Branch at Sterling on the Lake and Clarkstone Village, Touchstone Homes newest community!!
Bring your buyers to see our beautiful new craftsman style homes and townhomes. Check out our web site for locations and available homes. You will find a great deal for your buyer AND get a little extra spending money as the Selling Agent!!
Congress has approved legislation to allow FHA to increase fees on home buyers. For more information, watch this video from TBSW. New legislation become effective September 7, 2010 and will feel much like an increase in APR. Click here and watch for yourself!
As you may already know, Touchstone Homes has partnered with Atlanta’s Best New Homes TV show to feature Touchstone Homes communities across Metro Atlanta every Sunday morning on FOX5. The show airs at 10:00 am EST and runs for 30 minutes with Hostess Susie Proffitt. The show features Atlanta Builders and their communities. This weekend, Touchstone Homes ran a segment on their Summer Promotion where we are offering co-op agents a 6% Selling Commission and the Buyer gets 1 of 4 fabulous prizes. If you missed it, check it out here!
Touchstone Homes announces a HUGE promotion beginning on July 17th . The company is offering a 6% (six percent) Selling Commission on any inventory homes. Touchstone Homes has 49 inventory homes throughout Metro Atlanta available for immediate closing. In order to qualify for the incentives, contracts must be written between July 17th-31st and homes must close by September 30, 2010.
“Touchstone Homes is in the process of rebooting and rolling out new and improved floorplans for today’s market,” said Mike Zambri, Sales Manager of Touchstone Homes. “To make way for these exciting new floorplans, we have discounted inventory homes anywhere from $15,000 up to $100,000. Also, Touchstone is offering co-op agents an unprecedented 6% selling commission. And to sweeten the deal even more, we are introducing a Buyer Bonus Incentive for this two week promotion.”
The Buyer Bonus Incentive is being introduced during this two week promotion to help the new homeowner furnish their new home or take a mini-vacation after the stress of getting settled into their new home! See Agent for Full Details. The Buyer will have the opportunity to win one of four of the following prizes when they write a contract for a home:
1. Apple iPad 64 GB
2. Panasonic 50” Plasma Television
3. 36,000 Delta Skymiles (must have valid Skymiles Account)
4. $1,500 Rooms to Go gift card
Touchstone Homes offers townhomes from the $140s and Single Family Homes from the $200s.
Townhomes
Riverdance, Suwanee – Angel Whiteman – 770-476-7374
Lanier Walk, Cumming – Jeff Barnes – 770-403-1155
Park Place, Cumming – Dennis Doll – 404-641-8505
Ridenour, Kennesaw – Emily Peker – 770-422-8807
Village Grove, Suwanee – Elaine Gentry – 770-831-6883
New Haven Walk, Roswell – Barbara Lutz – 678-461-6011
Single Family
Village Grove, Suwanee – Elaine Gentry – 770-831-6883
Sterling on the Lake, Flowery Branch – Jeff Barnes – 770-965-7816
Hampton, Cumming – Sharon Jones – 678-947-1494
Windermere, Cumming – Sharon Jones – 678-232-9151
Ivey Chase, Dacula – Jeff Barnes – 770-403-1155
Trilogy Park, Hoschton – Jeff Barnes – 770-403-1155
Sienna on the River, Braselton – Tom Collins – 706-338-5141
Tributary, Douglasville – Molly White – 678-391-0026
Further along that meme, Paul Kasriel of Northern Trust believes that the implication of record low mortgage rates is that homes have become undervalued. That’s because the monthly financing cost of paying down a mortgage is now far less than the cost of renting a home of similar value, according to Mr. Kasriel, as shown below.
Just imagine it’s Friday evening. After a hectic work week, you look forward to an evening at the lake. Within minutes you are there…tent in place and with the campfire blazing. Saturday is relaxing on the boat with fishing and swimming. Sunday you are back home ready for 18-holes of golf. Lanier Walk offers convenient, low maintenance living that leaves time to enjoy the endless choice of activities. An affordable, low-maintenance lifestyle is within your reach! Driving into Lanier Walk, your first impression is that you have arrived at a sophisticated and charming community. Located less than two miles from Lake Lanier and minutes from great shopping on Marketplace Boulevard, Lanier Walk is the epitome of convenience. With easy access to GA 400 and Hwy. 20, our location is ideal for commuters. For first time homeowners or those seeking a second home close to Lake Lanier, come find what you are looking for at Lanier Walk. You can have all of this without leaving the community. Conveniently located on GA 400, Hampton is just minutes away from Lake Lanier, great restaurants and some of Forsyth County’s best shopping at the North Georgia Premium Outlet Mall in Dawsonville.
If you have never visited the Touchstone Homes Design Studio located within the Village Grove master planned community in Suwanee, you are definitely missing out on a wonderful experience. When you enter the studio, you feel like you have entered Tuscany for sure. Strings of lights overhead, water trickling in the fountain, and brick walkways. Contact your New Home Specialist in any Touchstone Homes community for a private VIP tour of the studio.
The Design Studio was featured on Atlanta’s Best New Homes TV show, if you missed it, you definitely want to see this!
Our Riverdance community is Suwanee is FHA approved and we thought all was right with the world until a Lender for a Buyer under contract on one of the newer units tried to get a case number for the loan and was declined. Much to our surprise, FHA was reporting that we were over our FHA loan saturation level based on the number of units submitted to the condo at this time. Well after much research, Touchstone staff determined that FHA was incorrect in their assessment and we were set to prove it to them.
After speaking with many lenders, attorneys and others intimately involved in FHA approved condos – we learned alot over those 4 days and kept getting conflicting information. So finally a week later, the issue is resolved and Riverdance is under the FHA loan saturation level as it should be. They were not unreasonable to deal with as we expected, all we had to do was prove it to them. As it turns out, they were missing some of the condo units that had been submitted and approved. Once we provided the documentation again, they corrected their system and we are back in business!!!
A lesson for those involved in FHA approved condos in Georgia:
Keep track of your submittals and approval documentation from HUD.
Keep track of the FHA closings vs. Total condos submitted to the Condo.
Keep a check online for the status of your communities. Go to https://entp.hud.gov/idapp/html/condlook.cfm to check the status of your condo communities periodically. HUD makes mistakes too!
Call Call Call and be diligent until you get someone at the HUD Home Ownership Center. We left multiple voice mails and never got a return call. So we kept calling until our contact finally answered the phone.
Be diligent.
FHA Saturation Level is 50% not 60%. 50% until 12.31.10 then it drops down to 30%.
Call your Senator and NAHB to continue lobbying HUD on these unreasonable bills. They are going to shut down home builders for good and they arent’ stopped!
We were told our case was the FIRST in the United States and we resolved the situation in a weeks time and our Buyer will be able to close.
April 1st thru April 30th, Touchstone Homes will DOUBLE your tax credit on select inventory single family homes and townhomes! Yes we will DOUBLE it! If you are a first time home buyer and you are eligible for $8,000 from the federal government, Touchstone Homes will give you another $8,000 off the price of your new home! If you qualify for the $6,500 tax credit for move up buyers, Touchstone Homes will give you another $6,500 off the price of your home!
PLUS we will pay your agent 4% selling commission! So everybody wins with this deal!
Offer valid on select homes only and cannot be combined with any other offer or promotion. Contracts must be written by April 30th to be eligible. You should consult with your tax advisor or www.federalhousingtaxcredit.com for more information on the tax credit.
homes under construction in Flowery Branch at Sterling on the Lake and Clarkstone Village, Touchstone Homes newest community!!
