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!LifeStyle 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: 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 [...]
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