LifeStyle Homes Ups the Quality Challenge
Melbourne, FL – MAY 13, 2012 – The phone calls and emails have been flying furiously this week between LifeStyle Homes in Melbourne, FL, and leading officials of the Department of Energy in Washington. Now that DOE has released the particulars for their second generation Builders Challenge program, they have been recruiting builders to commit [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes Ups the Quality ChallengeWe’ve Been Counting Up Energy Efficiency
Melbourne, FL – May 06, 2012 – We’re getting ready to introduce a new feature on our LifeStyle Homes website that will display up to date numbers for guaranteed HERS 60 SunSmart(SM) homes and Net Zero Energy SunSmartPV homes built to date. Every time we complete another of these remarkable homes, we’ll update the numbers [...]
Keep reading We’ve Been Counting Up Energy EfficiencyMove Ahead Smartly by Focusing Your Mind
Melbourne, FL – April 29, 2012 – At LifeStyle Homes, we genuinely care about your quality of life. Our principal contribution toward that is most likely made through building our guaranteed HERS 60 SunSmart(SM) energy efficient homes and our truly remarkable Net Zero Energy SunSmartPV(SM) homes, which over a year’s time generate as much electricity [...]
Keep reading Move Ahead Smartly by Focusing Your MindDemographic Shifts Bring Major Changes
Melbourne, FL – April 22, 2012 – Catering to multicultural buyers is becoming the new normal in American home sales, reflecting both the surging population of persons of Hispanic and Asian descent living in the United States and the relatively higher buying power their children bring to the home buying market when they become adults. [...]
Keep reading Demographic Shifts Bring Major ChangesEarly In The Morning 100 Years Ago Today
Melbourne, FL – April 15, 2012 – Few events in history resonate with so many people around the world as the tragic loss of RMS Titanic, the pride of the White Star Line, which occurred 100 years ago today. Some of us at LifeStyle Homes will pause a moment today, and maybe say a small [...]
Keep reading Early In The Morning 100 Years Ago TodayFaith + Knowledge + Guts Bring Success!
Melbourne, FL – April 08, 2012 – This is a blog about the significance of the coming dawn. On this Easter Sunday, Christians around the world celebrate the risen Christ, many at sunrise services. The parallel is obvious, isn’t it? But in our secular business world, we can at last say with conviction that the [...]
Keep reading Faith + Knowledge + Guts Bring Success!Brighter Days Just Ahead for Housing
Melbourne, FL – April 01, 2012 – It is becoming clearer day by day that the national economic recovery is gathering momentum, and many of us would say, “It’s about time.” Understand two things please. Number 1: This is NO April Fools joke. Number 2: We at LifeStyle Homes have nothing to complain about. Sales [...]
Keep reading Brighter Days Just Ahead for HousingDreaming of a One-of-a-Kind Custom Home?
Melbourne, FL – March 18, 2012 – If you know LifeStyle Homes, you probably know us as builders of cutting edge energy efficient homes that save our customers boatloads (Yes, he meant boatloads) of cash on their energy bills while providing a higher quality of indoor life as well. We build these homes under the [...]
Keep reading Dreaming of a One-of-a-Kind Custom Home?LifeStyle Homes Energy Efficiency Policy
Melbourne, FL – March 04, 2012 – The buzz has been building for several months now about new and more demanding targets for high performance homes coming from the federal government. There are draft proposals out there, and final decisions are expected at most any time now. At LifeStyle Homes, we are grateful to all [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes Energy Efficiency PolicyLifeStyle Homes at Harmony, Florida – SWEET
Melbourne, FL, February 27, 2012 – Truth be told, there are so many residential communities built around golf courses in Florida, they sort of run together. That’s why we are so proud to have been invited to build our remarkable LifeStyle HERS 60 guaranteed energy efficient SunSmart(SM) homes and our Net Zero Energy SunSmartPV(SM) homes [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes at Harmony, Florida – SWEETSpend a Moment With OUR TEAM
Melbourne, FL – February 19, 2012 – At LifeStyle Homes, we pride ourselves on being all about our customers. We live by the idea that as long as we focus on satisfying them, our needs will be taken care of, both as a company, and as a professional family of individuals. It takes an extraordinary [...]
Keep reading Spend a Moment With OUR TEAMA Better Alternative to Value Engineering
Melbourne, FL – February 12, 2012 – At LifeStyle Homes, we pride ourselves on building beautiful homes that are extremely efficient; not only in providing significant energy cost savings, but also in providing maximum useable space with minimum waste. Larry Hufford, our founding partner and continuing design guide, is almost rabid about not including any [...]
Keep reading A Better Alternative to Value EngineeringExcellence Will Build Our Bright Future
Melbourne, FL – February 05, 2012 – The LifeStyle Homes family is most likely enjoying the Super Bowl right about now; a true presentation of excellence in football. And, Madonna was pretty excellent herself in her halftime show, wasn’t she? All well and good, we say, and let’s hope everyone enjoyed both shows. But truth [...]
Keep reading Excellence Will Build Our Bright FutureLifeStyle Excitement Building in Harmony
Melbourne, FL, January 29, 2012 – It’s getting really close now – the much anticipated completion of the LifeStyle Homes brand new Tustin model home in the new Town of Harmony, FL. Designed by the renowned team at Canin Associates, Architects and Planners, of Orlando, the Tustin will bring cutting edge thinking about enjoyable and [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Excitement Building in HarmonyWe Also Have a Dream at LifeStyle Homes
Melbourne, FL – January 15, 2012 – This weekend, we at LifeStyle Homes will join in remembering the life and achievements of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Many of us know Dr. King primarily by the signature phrase of his address delivered on August 28, 1963, to the multitude gathered in front of the Lincoln [...]
Keep reading We Also Have a Dream at LifeStyle HomesFLASH! Breaking News on Lightbulb Changes
Melbourne, FL – Over this past weekend both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives passed the massive spending bill that will prevent government shutdown, with a measure added which would suspend the ban on manufacture of 100 watt incandescent lightbulbs presently slated to take effect January 1, 2012. We first reported on this issue on our LifeStyle Homes Blog [...]
Keep reading FLASH! Breaking News on Lightbulb ChangesLifeStyle Homes: For Net Zero Energy Homes
Melbourne, FL – LifeStyle Homes is your source for affordable Net Zero Energy Homes in Brevard County, Florida. We can say that for sure because no other builder of popularly priced homes in this area has attempted a Net Zero Energy Home. We might not have attempted our first one either, had it not been for the [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: For Net Zero Energy HomesLifeStyle Homes Family Enjoys a Party!
Melbourne, FL – Last evening, we renewed a longstanding tradition that is very important to the LifeStyle Homes family. We got together for our annual Christmas party at the home of our late founding partner, John Luhn. Our employees and spouses enjoyed too much fabulous Italian cuisine, lots of adult beverages and our annual exchange of funny gifts. Needless to say, [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes Family Enjoys a Party!Consumers Say Housing Market to Recover
Melbourne, FL – In a national survey, an overwhelming 72 percent of people say now is a very good time to buy a home. Bargain pricing on new and used homes and historically low mortgage interest rates are making people anxious to grab their piece of the recovering real estate market before it’s too late. At LifeStyle Homes, [...]
Keep reading Consumers Say Housing Market to RecoverWe Know What We Are Thankful For!
Melbourne, FL – We have more to be thankful for at LifeStyle Homes than we could ever mention in a Blog post, but let’s start by saying we are thankful for you. Since you are reading this, you have an interest of some sort in the homes we build and maybe in our company itself. If it [...]
Keep reading We Know What We Are Thankful For!Recession Spikes Home Energy Costs
Melbourne, FL – New information from The Economist indicates consumer spending on home energy costs increased the most between 2007 and 2010 of any spending category tracked. Measuring annual real (corrected for inflation) consumer spending per household during the period, spending on household utilities, fuels and public services was up by 22 percent. Next in line for [...]
Keep reading Recession Spikes Home Energy CostsLifeStyle Homes: WOW! We Win Again!
Melbourne, FL – We interrupt your regularly scheduled Blog to bring you this FLASH BULLETIN. We have just received word that LifeStyle Homes has won the North American Net Zero Energy Production Home of the Year Award from the Net Zero Energy Home Coalition based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. We can’t tell you how wonderful this is [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: WOW! We Win Again!LifeStyle Homes: A Fourth Helping of Nature's Greens
Melbourne, FL – No, guys, we aren’t offering the greens you eat with pork chops when you’re in the south, although that sounds pretty good right about now. What we’re doing this week is continuing our brief exploration of national programs encouraging home builders to increase the performance of the homes they build in terms of [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: A Fourth Helping of Nature's GreensLifeStyle Homes: Third Serving of Alphabet Soup
Melbourne, FL – This is our third serving of information concerning the efforts being made to bring home building into the rising energy efficiency economy. A lot of hard work is being done by a lot of good people to bring this about, but it has generated a lot of confusing program names and measurement standards as the [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: Third Serving of Alphabet SoupLifeStyle Homes: Alphabet Soup – Part Two
Melbourne, FL – It is becoming ever more clear that the new economy in the U.S., when we get a new economy, will be based on clean-renewable-sustainable energy. A lot of work is going on at a feverish pace to get the CRS Energy movement started and remarkable progress has been made already. The media [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: Alphabet Soup – Part TwoLifeStyle Homes: Labor Day Special
Melbourne, FL – This is the weekend of the year when we pause to honor the contributions made by American workers to our collective well being. This year, our attention will no doubt be drawn to our need to create jobs to fuel much needed economic recovery. We will hear all sorts of pronouncements from political candidates about their wonderful [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: Labor Day SpecialLifeStyle Homes: Badge of Honor
Melbourne, FL - Every one of the SunSmartSM HERS 60 homes built by LifeStyle Homes, and every one of our remarkable Net Zero Energy HERS 0 SunSmartPVSM homes proudly displays a special badge of honor awarded to it by the U.S. Department of Energy. It is known as an EnergySmart Home Scale placard, and it displays that home’s independently-tested and [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: Badge of HonorLifeStyle Homes: A Way Forward – Chapter Two
Melbourne, FL – Two weeks ago, this Blog recounted the decision made three years ago at LifeStyle Homes to build energy efficient homes as a way to preserve the company in what was predicted to be tough economic times ahead. That prediction surely turned out to be correct! The success of our SunSmartSM HERS 60 Homes and now our SunSmartPVSM [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: A Way Forward – Chapter TwoLifeStyle Homes: Economic Green Light Ahead
Melbourne, FL – Many of the nation’s leading home builders gathered in Washington, DC this past week at the annual National Association of Home Builders Spring Board of Directors meeting. One of the very best things about NAHB is the high quality of its economics staff and the accuracy of their assessments and forecasts. So where [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: Economic Green Light AheadLifeStyle Homes: Good Offense is the Best Defence
Melbourne, FL – Last week we suggested that sometime in the future, rising home energy costs will lower the value of energy-wasting homes people tyoically live in today, because newer, more energy-efficient homes will offer consumers a better deal – in some instances, a much better deal in terms of total ownership costs. Our LifeStyle Homes SunSmartSM and SunSmartPVSM homes offer [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: Good Offense is the Best Defence