Move 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 MindEarly 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 HousingLifeStyle 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!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: A Way Forward for Us All?
Melbourne, FL – The Moody Blues being a favorite band of mine, I am certainly acquainted with the thought, “Isn’t Life Strange?” Your writer is this day involved in four separate streams of professional thinking involving four different people that seem to be making themselves into a set of some sort. Maybe that is a clue to [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: A Way Forward for Us All?LifeStyle Homes: Proud, Humble and Grateful
Melbourne, FL: It is an axiom in new home marketing that WIIFM rules, which is to say that from the customer’s point of view, ”What’s In It For Me” is the only thing that counts. It’s no secret to anyone that the new home market in Florida is challenged and that it has beenso for three [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: Proud, Humble and GratefulLifeStyle 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 AheadThe LifeStyle Homes PV Program Gains Momentum
Melbourne, FL – We shared with you last week the very complimentary story that the Florida Today newspaper ran about the SunSmartPV(sm) energy saving program from LifeStyle Homes. Wow! It’s nice to get a boost like that! This week, we can be happy about that story being picked up by Florida Trend magazine and posted on [...]
Keep reading The LifeStyle Homes PV Program Gains MomentumSneak a Peek Inside Our First Net-Zero PV Home
Last week, we shared a portrait of the architectural elevation of this extraordinary electricity-generating home with you. This week, how about a peek inside to view the stunning decor? LifeStyle Homes is pleased to offer you this special opportunity. Here is a photo of the principal living area just to whet your appetite to see more. Our long time and very good [...]
Keep reading Sneak a Peek Inside Our First Net-Zero PV HomeEnergy Efficiency Builds Sweet Jobs
Our good friends over at the Economic Development Commission of Florida’s Space Coast (EDC) are pushing hard on an initiative they call the Florida Energy and Jobs Working Group to make their version of the candy you know that combines chocolate and peanut butter. The idea is that we all need to get excited and incentivised [...]
Keep reading Energy Efficiency Builds Sweet JobsA Good Time for Looking Ahead
The Nation’s leading home builders gathered this past week in Washington, DC to assess market conditions and plan for the future. For the first time in what seems like a long time, the mood was definitely optimistic. No mealy-mouthed spin statements like, “a definite slowing of downward acceleration” were to be heard. Instead, builders and economists [...]
Keep reading A Good Time for Looking AheadWhat's With All This Red?
When you visit LifeStyle Homes on our web site, www.BuildingaLifeStyle.com, you will see that we have lots of information you can print-off for yourself about good living homes and neighborhoods. And, if you visit one of our sales centers, we will put together a very informative brochure for you to take with you and study later. It’s [...]
Keep reading What's With All This Red?The Heroes Among Us
These are times when people of special character are especially important to us all. No matter what your opinion of our current foreign/military policy, isn’t it a good thing that we can agree to praise the courage of our military personnel and give thanks for their dedication? And, how about their loved ones back home? [...]
Keep reading The Heroes Among Us"It's Vegas, Baby!"
It’s certainly no secret that these are interesting times for the nation’s home builders. Many have left the scene suddenly, and the ones still building could be excused for seeking a day or two of fun here in the desert. But, that’s not it at all. The best home builders are investing in their futures [...]
Keep reading "It's Vegas, Baby!"