GRAND OPENING EVENT!

HELP US CELEBRATE THE GRAND OPENING OF OUR NEW MODEL HOME IN FOSSIL RIDGE - BALCH SPRINGS, TEXAS!

12704 Bruce

Wednesday, February 17th
11AM to 1PM

Enjoy food & fun while you tour our new model home in Fossil Ridge located in Balch Springs, TX. Beautiful, energy efficient, homes priced from the $111's!

Directions: From 635, exit Elam Rd and travel East. Left on Loyd, right on Bruce.

SEE YOU THERE!

GRAND OPENING!

Join us in celebrating the grand openening of our newest community: Fossil Ridge in Balch Springs, TX! Drop by and tour our beautifully furnish model home and meet Willard Mardenborough, sales consultant. You'll love the floorplan options in this remarkable community located off Elam Road and 635. For more information, visit our website. See you soon!

SNOW? In TEXAS?!?!

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Westover Village Estates….
Come out to Westover Village Estates for some hot coffee, yummy cookies and great homes! We'd love to share the season with you!

Annual Villages of Woodland Springs Turkey Trot 5K & 1-Mile Fun Run

Cheldan Homes participated in the Annual Villages of Woodland Springs Turkey Trot 5K & 1-Mile Fun Run … Benefiting your health and the Princess Alexa Foundation! The Cheldan team included Julie Downe, Sales Consultant and her family, Kevin, Maggie, Mallory, Macy and Max.

Keller Wine and Jazz Festival goes to the Doghouse!

This year, Cheldan Homes and the Woodland Springs team, Julie Downe, Kate Nelson and Troy Carlisle built and donated an amazing, cozy doghouse to the Keller Wine and Jazz Festival auction. It was a hit! As was the festival! The Keller Chamber sure knows how to throw a party!

Anne Carrancejie meets Drew Pearson

This October, Anne Carrancejie (Cheldan Homes North Texas Team) attended the North Texas Chamber of Commerce Luncheon at the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium. What a stadium that is! Anne attended with other board members of the Saginaw Chamber of Commerce. The program was presented by Bill Lively, the President and CEO of the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee, along with NFL Hall of Fame Drew Pearson, former Dallas Cowboy.

Anne wearing Drew Pearson's Superbowl ring

It's Fall at Westover Village!

Happy Fall to all our friends!

Westover Village Estates in Weatherford, TX opened their doors to several of the sweetest and most creative costumes we've ever seen. We want to thank everyone who was able to stop by! Here is a sneak peek at the Boo-tastic trick-or-treaters we saw at Westover....

Janice Henry - Sales Consultant at Westover Village

A Pretty Witch (Dani, 3) and a Sweet Little Kitty (Kati, 1)


Laura Ingalls from Little House on the Prairie (Jana, 8)

A Fun Hot Dog (Justine, 12) and a Bride of the Dead (Kira, 8)

"Mummy's" Precious Twins (Mark & Lee, 8 months)

Let's do the Monster Mash!

Go Team! Weatherford Little League (Ori, 5 1/2)

A Precious Woodland Fairy (Chloe, 2)

Woody (Dade, 3) and Buzz Lightyear (Gunnar, 11 months)

We hope you had a safe and happy Halloween!

D/FW Home Sales Climb 11%!

Dallas-Fort Worth home sales climb 11%

By STEVE BROWN

Pre-owned home sales in North Texas were up 11 percent in October from a year ago - the first year-over-year gain since September 2008 and the best sign yet that the local housing market has turned the corner.

Real estate agents sold more than 6,300 single-family homes through the Multiple Listing Service last month, according to numbers released Monday by the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University and the North Texas Real Estate Information Systems.
October's increase was only the second year-over-year rise in home sales in three years.
Housing analysts say there's no doubt that the shift was fueled by the federal tax credit for first-time homebuyers.

"Clearly, the $8,000 tax credit has brought additional buyers into the market," said Ted Wilson of Dallas-based Residential Strategies Inc. "The news from the housing sector is turning more positive.

"And the outlook for the next eight months looks quite bright as well," he said.

Great News for the Housing Market!

Our good friend Rhonda at InTrust Mortgage had this great news to share:

Hello Everyone, It looks like the tax credit will be extended plus allow a tax credit of $6,500 to homebuyers who are NOT buying for the first time. Further, it also looks like they are going to increase the maximum income levels for both single individuals and married couples. The proposal is not yet finalized. Below is the short news release:

And eyes continue to be on the tax credit extension, which either prolongs the inevitable or helps the housing market to stabilize and recover, depending on how one looks at it. A Senate committee reached a compromise to extend the credit, and also tacked on a $6,500 tax credit for other primary-home purchasers and raised the qualifying income limits to $125,000 for single taxpayers and $225,000 for joint taxpayers. Under the Senate panel compromise, buyers must have sales agreements in hand by April 30, but they will have until June 30 to go to settlement, the sources said. The measure still faces votes in the full Senate and the House.

Joey Goss leads the team as we make up for time lost

Last Nights Watch Party was "extremely" awesome! Pictures are coming soon... but first, ABC has uploaded a great clip of Joey Goss interacting with teh Extreme Makeover: Home Edition cast. Check it out! CLICK HERE

IT'S HERE!!!

Catch The Marshall Family and Cheldan Homes tonight on ABC at 7:00pm Central!

See a SNEAK PEEK of tomorrow's show!

CLICK HERE for a sneak peek at the Marshall Family home. This is the first time in the history of the show that ABC and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition has allowed a snip of the interior to be seen before the actual airing. Of course, it's only just a peek!

It's true - ONE MORE DAY!

FUN FACT FROM BEHIND THE SCENES: One of the first orders of business? Checking in hundreds of volunteers, passing out hundreds of blue "Extreme" T-shirts and assembling thousands of hard hats. Each volunteer helped keep inventory under control by washing their volunteer shirt each night and wearing it again the next day. Thanks to everyone for helping us out with the shirts and hats!

TWO more days!!

FUN FACT FROM BEHIND THE SCENES: Says Anne Carrancejie, Cheldan team member, "One incident that didn't go just as planned happened one night... um, morning, around 2 am. I was leaving to catch a few hours sleep and realized I had lost my car keys! I looked everywhere and was afraid they had fallen somewhere and were buried. One of the EMHE security officers made a slim jim and a wedge in the construction tent and opened up my car so I could get my purse and belongings. During this process, my alarm went off a couple times, waking those on-site who were trying to catch a couple hours of sleep themselves. I got a ride home with someone for my extra set and headed back the next day. Sorry to anyone who was woken up by a loud alarm that night!"

WHAT? Only three more days???

FUN FACT FROM BEHIND THE SCENES: One volunteer described an amazing moment when she saw that several of the subcontractors that volunteered were working straight through lunch, wouldn't even stop for snacks and only took water breaks until their particular job was finished. She then saw a Cheldan team member run to the food tent and grab plates full of delicious steak dinners and brought them over to the subcontractors to make them stop and eat.

Ironically, the team member running steaks is a vegetarian.