Buying New the Answer to Home Shopping for Inland Empire Family; New Homes at Pardee's LivingSmart Tournament Hills priced from the High $100,000s

BEAUMONT, CA, March 14, 2012

Beaumont, CA ---- After months of looking at resale homes, putting in bids and being disappointed, the Hernandez family took the suggestion of their Realtor and decided to look for a new home. A sign along I-10 advertising LivingSmart Homes at Tournament Hills had caught their eye a few years back, so they decided to take another look and found their perfect home was really a new home with energy-saving features, a great location and amazing pricing.

"I still can't believe how easy the Pardee team made it to purchase a home," said Rene Hernandez. "Buying a new home from Pardee was easier than buying a new car. From financing to escrow to even customer service, a few phone calls seemed to take care of everything. I could not have asked for a better team to take care of my home buying needs. The sales representative, Edwina Grayer, and lender, Cindy Balthazar, really made this happen for us. My wife wanted to be moved in before Christmas and we were. It took just seven weeks from contract signing to move-in."

The Hernandez family is among the many qualified homebuyers who have been able to take advantage of the CHF Platinum Program, a grant that gives the buyer all but five percent of the down payment.

"This amazing program is available for first-time and move-up California buyers who qualify for the grant and a FHA mortgage available through Bank of America," said Peter Altuchow, regional director of sales for Pardee Homes. "This is an incredible opportunity for home buyers to take advantage of historically low interest rates as well as affordable home prices like those at our LivingSmart Homes neighborhoods in Beaumont and Lake Elsinore."

Move-up buyers like the Hernandez' found these incentives compelling. "The CHF Platinum Program and Pardee's contribution of paying the closing costs were another reason we bought at LivingSmart Homes," said Rene Hernandez. "We couldn't pass it up.

"We wanted to buy a single-story home and found four one-story floor plans to choose from at LivingSmart Tournament Hills. The home is perfect, and we knew buying a new home would be more energy-efficient" added Hernandez. "Our monthly energy savings are huge. We are paying half of what we paid before for utilities and this is certainly one of the things I like best about our new home. My wife, Patricia, loves the beautiful wood flooring and we both like the quiet Tournament Hills community and our view of the golf course and mountains. Moving to Beaumont from Redlands has been an easy transition. My wife, who works in the medical profession, has an easy commute to Loma Linda and our son, who commutes to college in downtown Los Angeles, takes the Metro from San Bernardino. We love the location of Tournament Hills."

With a total of eight floor plans to choose from, there is certainly something for every type of homebuyer at LivingSmart Homes. One- and two- story floor plans range from three to seven bedrooms, two to four baths with two- and three-bay garages and approximately 1,132 to 3,099 square feet. Ingenious touches such as gourmet kitchens with slab granite and stainless steel appliances are complemented by a host of room options such as media niches, extra bedrooms, fireplaces, garage workshops, master bedroom decks and a four-bay garage in select plans.

Priced from the high $100,000s, the LivingSmart Homes are brimming with a wealth of features and recent updates include the addition of several new standard features such as sleek matching master bath mirrors, contemporary sinks and furniture-style cabinetry. Other features include designer-selected interior light fixtures and architecturally specified recessed lighting, separate interior laundry rooms and spacious master bedroom suites with luxurious bathrooms, private dressing areas and walk-in closets.

To make buying a new home even easier, Pardee offers a variety of optional features including value kitchen packages, home wiring packages, bath fixture bundles and LivingSmart packages.
Standard energy-efficient features include Energy Star rated dishwashers, low-E spectrally selective glass windows, fluorescent lights in select recessed cans, dimmer switches and occupancy sensors, and radiant barrier roof sheathing. Buyers can also add such earth-friendly options as roof-integrated solar electric power systems, high- efficiency air filtration systems, tankless water heaters, WaterSmart controllers for landscape, reverse osmosis water system in the kitchen, central vacuum systems, and more. Energy efficiency in a LivingSmart home exceeds California's Title 24 criteria, already the toughest in the nation.

As the top selling new home community in the Inland Empire last year, LivingSmart Homes received multiple industry and consumer awards, including SoCal Awards Community of the Year and Southern California Consumers Choice Award.

Tournament Hills in Beaumont has a gorgeous private lake and about seven acres of park space, walking trails, picnic areas and a new elementary school. Additionally, the LivingSmart Homes' enclave adjoins the Morongo Golf Club at Tukwet Canyon, home of the Southern California PGA, with two 36-hole championship courses.

For more information about Pardee Homes and LivingSmart Homes, visit http://www.pardeehomes.com or call (888) 4PARDEE. Find Pardee on Facebook at http://www.fb.com/livingsmarthomes. To visit the models at Tournament Hills in Beaumont, exit I-10 at Oak Valley Parkway and go west, then follow the signs to the models.