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CBUSA Member Addison Homes Wins Innovation Awards
Green initiatives are greatly influencing current homebuilding trends. Not only are many focused on reducing their personal environmental impact, but there’s also a growing interest in less reliance on power and utility companies. As more technologies and techniques become available, the more this becomes attainable. Many preach, but few companies have been able to successfully…
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2016 Home Builders Blitz a Massive Success
In 2002, under the expert leadership of Raleigh, North Carolina custom homebuilder Tom Gipson, the first annual Home Builders Blitz took place. Tom recruited 11 other builders from the area to partner with Habitat for Humanity of Wake County to construct 12 homes in one week with hard-working families. After a week’s worth of sweat,…
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The New Chesapeake Market
Eastern Maryland is home to a prolific building community with some of the best and most sought-after custom homebuilders in the country. And it’s no wonder—prospective new homeowners are all eager to find themselves with a deck-view of Chesapeake Bay, immediate access to a quiet cove, or nestled among the many other natural and historic…
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Member Bob Ward Companies Honored by BGE
In 2015, more than 2,300 ENERGY STAR homes were built in Maryland, some of which were Bob Ward Companies’ beautiful projects. Bob Ward Companies is one of the largest homebuilding businesses in the greater Baltimore area. Since 1983, they have led the charge in building communities of townhomes and single-family homes. Nearly 3,000 families have found…
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Help Make Owen’s Make-a-Wish Tree House a Reality
Donate to Owen’s Tree House Imagine: you’re picking your way through Cleveland’s rocky, muggy woods; stepping over logs, gingerly leaping over small streams. All of a sudden a longhaired Daschund tears by, closely followed by a young boy in a distinct hybrid of a wheelchair and a tank, making wide tracks through the mud. That…
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CBUSA Member Chad Magleby Snags Custom Builder of the Year!
The book has been closed on another successful and fruitful three-day National Association of Home Builders IBS Show in Las Vegas. From January 19-21, our CBUSA team met with an array of the most influential and prolific builders in the country, attended education sessions, and witnessed the much-anticipated 2016 Best of IBS Awards. Close to…
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Imagine Your Rebate Status in Real-Time
At the core of an independent builder is a master multitasker. Any small opportunity to streamline the process comes as a welcome reprieve, and any go-out-of-the-way tasks end up being a time and effort burden sometimes too hefty to bear. A perfect and simplified example: the rebate. While you’re busy tracking a rebate, ensuring that…
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Independent Home Builders: New Markets in 2016
Power in Numbers Though we’re contentedly rounding out 2015, there’s no room for coasting into the new year. With two formidable new markets on our immediate horizon, we’re as busy and excited as ever. Empowering independent home builders to leverage more purchasing power for themselves in a challenging supply market is our driving force. As…