Community Wide Open House Oct. 2016

This Weekend!

OCT. 28 - OCT. 30 FORT COLLINS | LOVELAND | WINDSOR | TIMNATH | WELLINGTON | AND MORE!

2, COMMUNITY-WIDE OPEN HOUSE

OCTOBER 2016

Open Houses This Weekend SATURDAY 11-1

Harmony Office 970.229.0700 Horsetooth Office 970.223.0700 Mulberry Office 970.221.0700

2808 Outrigger Way, Fort Collins – Well maintained 3 bed, 2 full bath home w/ 2,075 total square feet.

Beautiful back yard. Wake up to the amazing sunrise in the master bedroom. Store all your toys in the 3-car garage. Just 8 miles to Old Town. Come take a look!

SATURDAY 12:00-3:00

8456 Golden Eagle Rd, Fort Collins Gorgeous “Vignette” style home on .65 acres! Space for everyone w/5 BDs, 7 BAs, huge custom kitchen, finished walkout bsmt & multiple living spaces. Stunning details incl. wood beamed ceilings & lofty windows.

Expansive lawn backs to neighborhood tennis courts & park. See it today!

www.thegroupinc.com

SAT-THURS. 11-6, FRI. 12-6 SAT-THURS 11-6 & FRI 12-6

3947 Ginkgo St., Wellington - 3 BD, 3 BA new ranch home in Harvest Village. Open great room concept with granite kitchen island, walk-in pantry & oversized 2-car garage. Full unfinished basement and front yard landscaping with sprinkler included.

2151 Saison Street, Fort Collins - Welcome to TimberVine! Ranch and 2-Story plans available. 2x6 construction, granite counters, stainless appliances, A/C, oversized garage and front yard landscape standard. 3-car garage available on some plans.

$300,000

$1,130,000

$329,500

$345,000

Call Katie Shea 720-231-8179

Call Chris McElroy 970-227-5102

Call Christie Wilbur 970-219-1138

Call Val Schlageter 970-217-3464

MLS#805387

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Old Town Office 970.493.0700 Centerra Office 970.613.0700 Loveland Office 970.663.0700

TUES-SAT 10-6 &SUN 12-6 TUES-SAT 10-6 & SUN 12-6 TUES-SAT 10-6 & SUN 12-6 TUES-SAT 10-6 & SUN 12-6

3679 Torch Lily St, Wellington Popular 3 bedroom 2 bath ranch plan built by DR Horton with a 3-car garage.

Front yard landscaping, window blinds, hardwood flooring, upgraded interior paint, full kitchen appliance package and air conditioning. Visit the model at 3771 Daylily

2242 Stonefish Drive, Windsor - Great ranch style home built by DR Horton.

3 bedrooms, 2 baths with an oversized unfinished basement for future expansion.

Great room has corner fireplace and is open to kitchen with nook. Wood flooring, stainless appliances and granite countertops. Model home 2179 Longfin.

2026 Blue Yonder Dr., FTC – Beautiful 2 bed, 2 bath ranch home in Bucking Horse by DR Horton with main floor office located on an exterior lot with a garden level basement. High ceilings, unique architecture, open layout creates an amazing design inside the home.

Model at 2740 Walkaloosa Way.

5788 Connor St., Timnath - Gorgeous move-in ready ranch floor plan by DR Horton with 2 1/2 car garage & covered patio! Large open kitchen features granite slab, white cabinets, stainless appliances, double oven & gas cooktop.

Master suite with 2 walk in closets & bay window. Model at 5813 Glendive.

$313,185

$389,400

$425,000

$450,000

Kathy Beck 970-213-8475 Brandi Garifi 720-291-0899

Kathy Beck 970-213-8475 Brandi Garifi 720-291-0899

Kathy Beck 970-213-8475 Brandi Garifi 720-291-0899

Kathy Beck 970-213-8475 Brandi Garifi 720-291-0899

MLS#804832

TUES-SAT 10-6/SUN 12-6

MLS#800318

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TUES-SAT 10-6 AND SUN 12-6 TUES-SAT 10-6 & SUN 12-6 TUES-SAT 10-6 & SUN 12-6 TUES-SAT 10-6 & SUN 12-6

2008 Blue Yonder Dr., FTC - Built

by DR Horton, this home is complete and ready for a new owner. Main floor study, 3 bed, 3 bath, hardwood flooring, beautiful tilework in the master bedroom, open great room layout, fully fenced and landscaped.

Model at 2740 Walkaloosa Way.

2166 Longfin Dr., Windsor - New home built by DR Horton. 2-story plan offering 5 beds, 4 baths, extensive windows offering lots of natural light. Gourmet kitchen with a gas cooktop, double ovens, and walk-in pantry. Visit the model home at 2179 Longfin Dr.

6015 Moran Road, Timnath - Great corner lot with designer finishes throughout, built by DR Horton.

Expansive 2-story great room opens to kitchen, 3 bed, 3 bath and covered patio. Master suite features a fireplace, coffee bar 5-pc luxury bath. Model home at 5813 Glendive Ln.

2457 Palomino Dr Fort Collins - 2 story plan built by DR Horton! Spacious gourmet kitchen has rich finishes and includes white cabinetry w/selfclosing drawers, stainless appliances, 5-burner gas cook top, double ovens, built-in refrigerator and granite. Visit model home at 2740 Walkaloosa Way.

3611 Torch Lily St, Wellington - DR Horton Express brand new home!

Builder Warranty. Corner Homesite 3 Bedroom 2.5 Bath 2 Story Home with Loft. Window Blinds Included.

Front yard landscaping included. Wing Fencing Included. Visit the model at 3771 Daylily

$475,000

$490,000

$520,000

$700,000

$322,020

Kathy Beck 970-213-8475 Brandi Garifi 720-291-0899

Kathy Beck 970-213-8475 Brandi Garifi 720-291-0899

Kathy Beck 970-213-8475 Brandi Garifi 720-291-0899

Kathy Beck 970-213-8475 Brandi Garifi 720-291-0899

Kathy Beck 970-213-8475 Brandi Garifi 720-291-0899

MLS#804627

SATURDAY 1-4P

2827 Chase Drive Fort Collins, CO 80525 - 4bd/4ba/3,803 SF 2 story home! PRICE REDUCED! Cape-cod style home in Rigden Farm. Main floor master & study. Newly remodeled upstairs, bamboo floors, dormers, stylish full bath. Refinished wood floors, new paint, carpet & roof

MLS#788980

SAT 11-1 & SUN 11-1

1935 E. 11th Street - Main living w/ spacious open floor plan. Kitchen w/ island & all appliances. Upper level master suite w/bath & walk-in closet, 2 bedrooms, bath & laundry. Unfinished basement.

Low maintenance landscaping & deck. New flooring & paint. Blue Ribbon Home Warranty!

MLS#803516

FRIDAY-SUNDAY 1-3

2635 Geranium Ln. Ft. Collins. - Beautiful 3BD 2BA 4,470 sf ranch is complete & waiting for you! Open floorplan, gourmet kitchen, large master with 5 piece bath.

3 car garage & unfinished basement.

Amazing location near Spring Creek Trail, new Foothills mall & fabulous schools!

MLS#800203

FRIDAY-SUNDAY 1-3

2650 Geranium Ln. Ft. Collins. Gorgeous 3BD 3BA 3,695 sf 2 story is complete & waiting for you! Open floorplan, beautiful kitchen & spacious master retreat. 3 car garage & unfinished basement. Amazing location near Spring Creek Trail, new Foothills mall & fabulous schools!

MLS#795622

SAT 1-3 & SUN 11-1

7885 Blackwood Drive, Windsor - Ranch w/main floor Hickory, Alder, granite, rock fireplace, study, butler pantry & master w/ closet built-ins! Daylight basement w/wet bar, wine chiller & storage. 4 car tandem garage w/epoxy floor, covered deck w/ grill, hot tub & views. OWNER FINANCING AVAILABLE!! READY TO GO

$400,000

$290,000

$479,950

$474,950

$725,000

Tracey Ryk 970-217-3454

Kristi Collins 970-389-4660 Ellen Lake 970-420-4309

Call Matt Nesbitt 970-690-7155

Call Matt Nesbitt 970-690-7155

Rob Mygatt 970-227-6489 Jeff Davidson 970-305-5922

MLS#794796

MLS#804882

MLS#803419

MLS#804817

MLS#792579

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Harmony Office 970.229.0700 Horsetooth Office 970.223.0700

4302 Carlyle Ln., Wellington Many plans to choose from with prices starting in the $270’s. We have homes available to move into early 2016! Come and see the quality homes built by Sage Homes in The Meadows in Wellington.

Jim Hauan 970-481-9280 Jo Carney 970-310-1836

Mulberry Office 970.221.0700 The Source in Old Town 970.493.0700 Centerra Office 970.613.0700 Loveland Office 970.663.0700

4015 Bracadale Place, Fort Collins – Adorable 3 bed, 2 full bath home.

New flooring throughout. New tile in bathrooms and laundry. Fresh paint on walls & ceilings. New kitchen faucet & showerheads. New garage door, storm door & landscaping.

New dishwasher too! Come see this home today!

From the $270’s

www.thegroupinc.com

OPEN HOUSE SATURDAY 11-1

5854 Woodcliffe Dr, Windsor 2bd/2ba/3,546 SF/Patio Home.

Former Model Home! Enjoy maintance free living at The Villas at Highpointe!

Custom home with open floorplan & spacious kitchen! Unfinished basement, fully landscaped with oversized 2 car garage. Backs to open space!

OPEN HOUSE SATURDAY 12-2

5425 TAYLOR LN, FT. COLLINS – 5Bd /5Ba/4,835 SF/2 Story. Exquisite estate in Ptarmigan off 9th green! Over-sized master, 5 pc. bath & jet tub. Lg kitchen w/island & Corian counters. Basement great for entertaining! Bar & walk-up patio & temp controlled wine cellar!

New Roof!

$423,500

$669,000

Call Dave Gustafson 970-213-3287

Call Adrienne Scharli 970-217-7350

MLS#800487

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Telling Time - A home’s first weeks on the market crucial

By Marilyn Kennedy Melia CTW Features Listen carefully, home sellers, and you will know if your sales strategy is effective.

“The market speaks to us,” says Jason Gooing of ERA Freeman & Associates, Portland, Oregon. “And it never speaks more clearly than in the first one to two weeks.”

With the current low inventories of homes for sale in many markets, it’s especially likely that sellers who’ve priced their home correctly should expect an offer within a certain initial time frame, observes Michael Seiler, real estate professor at the College of William & Mary.

As Gooing notes, an initial period as short as two weeks is telling.

“Within the first two weeks

a property is on the market, the pool of potential buyers for that price point and area will have seen the property,” adds Victoria Aguilar of Nelson Shelton Real Estate in Beverly Hills.

A seasoned listing agent should be able to provide an expected window for a bid.

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Ross Milroy, “In a sellers’ market, when demand outstrips supply, you can certainly expect an offer within the first two to four weeks. Buyers can be very emotional and are quick to make compromises and make aggressive o f f e r s when the supply of housing is tight.”

O n the other hand, not all buyers

have the financial wherewithal to quickly submit a strong bid, notes Ross.

If, for example, buyers will probably seek an FHA mortgage because they don’t have much available for a down payment, homes priced near the FHA loan limit may expect to wait longer for a viable buyer who can muster a required down payment.

Seasonal factors also influence the speed of sales.

A home sale strategy has three basic components: price, condition of the home, and a marketing plan, explains Debbie Kirkland, broker-owner of Century 21 FirstStory Real Estae, Tallahasee, Florida.

When an initial period passes without the expected buyer interest, one of those three factors can be adjusted, notes Kirkland. © CTW Features

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The story behind the tunnels under Old Town Fort Collins

The door to a tunnel is opened underneath Old Town Saturday, October 15, 2016. Fort Collins Tours leads people underground for a different look at the city.

(Photo: Austin Humphreys/The Coloradoan) (Photo: Austin Humphreys/The Coloradoan) Melissa Hartman tells stories of hauntings and Fort Collins history underneath the streets of Old Town Saturday, October 15, 2016. Fort Collins Tours leads people underground for a different look at the city.

(Photo: Austin Humphreys/The Coloradoan)

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Traveling the picturesque sidewalks of Old Town Fort Collins, you may not know what’s beneath your feet.

Lori Juszak didn’t either.

In 2011, Juszak was meeting with owners of Old Town buildings to research their history for her thennew business, Fort Collins Tours, when she was asked a question she’d never expected: “Do you want to see what’s underneath?”

Some are closed or filled in by now, but a small network of tunnels sits under Old Town buildings, hearkening back to the days when horses pulled coffins through them to the morgue basement, when shop boys descended into them to bring up goods to a narrow mercantile, and when bootleggers turned to them to conduct secret liquor transports during Prohibition.

They’re “pieces of lost history, things that people really hadn’t recognized in 50, maybe 75 years,” said Juszak, whose company now leads visitors through Old Town’s history — both above and below ground — year

round.

Most Colorado tunnels were used for delivery of merchandise into business basements, according to Tracy Beach, author of the 2014 book “Tunnels Under Our Feet.” “(Shops) would send employees through their basement, into the tunnel to grab their supplies, then they would use a dumbwaiter to bring merchandise up from storage so it wouldn’t clog up the store,” said Beach.

“Later on, sneaking through to businesses like brothels came in handy, too.”

Beach spent five years researching underground tunnels in more than a dozen Colorado cities.

Her first stop was Salida, which she found after a wild goose chase that involved going through a madame’s old diary and following clues to a beauty shop owner who had taken her friends — and a Ouija board — into the tunnels years before.

Beach eventually found and went into the tunnel.

“I was hooked after that,” she said.

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was unable to share any information on them, citing safety concerns — most of Fort Collins’ tunnels are confined to Old Town.

The Old Town tunnels are owned and managed by each building’s owner, said Juszak, who has partnerships with the owners of each tunnel included in

during the Cold War, a former underground morgue, and the town’s jail from the 1880s, which was kept underground to contain disease from inmates. The jail tunnels still feature a solitary confinement cell with 18inch thick stone walls, Juszak said.

Melissa Hartman leads a ghost tour through Old Town Saturday, October 15, 2016. Fort Collins Tours leads people underground for a different look at the city. (Photo: Austin Humphreys/The Coloradoan)

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Choose the best interior paint colors for higher resale value

By Erik J. Martin CTW Features Many home sellers already know that adding a fresh coat of paint to walls and ceilings can make a favorable impression on

prospective purchasers. But if you really want to wow buyers and pocket a bigger profit, pay greater attention to paint colors, say the pros.

A recent study by Zillow Digs shows that the hue you select to paint on your walls can significantly impact the finale sales price of your home. Shadein-point: for-sale listings with rooms coated in sage green or wheat yellow paint can result in a sales price approximately $1,300 more than expected, and creamy

or wheat yellow kitchens can possibly yield the most dividends – a sales price $1,360 more than anticipated. Light green or khaki bedrooms and dove or light gray living rooms also had a positive sales impact.

“A fresh coat of paint is probably one of the easiest and most affordable ways to improve your home’s overall appearance and style for both photos and in-person walkthroughs,” says Kerrie Kelly, Zillow Digs home design expert in Sacramento, California.

“Fresh, natural-looking wall colors, including sage green, wheat yellow and light tan, blend

well across design styles and help future buyers easily envision themselves living in the space.”

Larry Greene, president of Indianapolis-headquartered interior design firm Case Indianapolis, recommends repainting in light, neutral colors like grays, tans, light yellows and other pale muted tones, which can make rooms feel bigger and more spacious.

“Any rooms that don’t get a lot of natural light will need a lighter color to brighten them up,” Greene says. “Gray-blue shades are nice if you have a cool palette in your home, and a golden tan can warm up a room that lacks natural light. Anything very bright or dark should be painted over.”

Be careful to pick colors that harmonize with the rest of your abode.

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palette of cool blues, don’t throw one warm yellow room into the mix – keep consistent but tone the colors down to make them more neutral and universally pleasing,” Greene says.

If existing wall colors fit the aforementioned criteria, count on adding a fresh coat of the same color anyway, says Marie Graham, decorator, home stager and owner of The Refreshed Home in White Plains, New York.

“Make the biggest impression by front-loading your efforts, focusing on main and expected rooms – the entry, living room, dining room, kitchen, family room and master bedroom,” Graham says. “Wall colors should flow from room to room.

Different colors for different rooms feel like ‘more’ and let potential buyers quickly and more easily understand what they’re seeing online, especially

when there are multiple or similar rooms like bedrooms, bathrooms and family/living rooms.”

Before settling on an interior wall paint color, also consider the permanent elements in the room like hardwood floors, porcelain tiles or carpeting.

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“Additionally, assess the natural and artificial lighting in the space, which affects how color looks. Paint samples of your top choices on poster board, hang them around the room and see how the color looks at different times of day.” © CTW Features