Getting your player ready...
Good market or bad, buyers keep aging past the 55 year mark…and this summer they’re turning out in droves to see new, ranch-style product that looks like more fun than their current two-stories and tri-levels. Tomorrow, Heritage at Todd Creek – 55-and-older community that’s having some luck transforming those lookers into actual buyers – will give you a taste of just how appetizing that life can be; along with some ways to get you out of your old place and into something new.
Saturday morning starting at ten, Mats Larsson, new Swedish chef at Heritage Todd Creek’s clubhouse beside the 18-hole golf course, will serve up some specialties in each of three ranch-style model homes – including his famous Swedish meatballs. More important, you’ll have a chance to meet with some experts who have creative ways of overcoming the obstacles that buyers are facing right now in getting out of their older places, into new designs better oriented for how they live.
“The truth is buyers around Denver have a much better situation for selling their homes now than in many national markets,” says Mike DeNuzzi, who’ll be on hand with C.W. Vaughn and Pam Warner to show you around. Nevertheless, on seven new ranches that Lennar Homes sold at Heritage Todd Creek since May, two couples used special programs to make the resale happen – one, a lease option by Marketplace Homes that finds a renter for up to six years (even maintains your landscape); the other, a program that markets your home for no agent fee, guarantees it will sell in 90 days at 92% of market value, or buys it back.
You’ll also have a chance to talk with 1st Reverse Mortgage USA (you can do a reverse on a new home), giving away a $150 dinner certificate to the legendary Buckhorn Exchange; and meet Clay Short, lifestyle director who coordinates 22 clubs for residents (70 show up for darts!) and Pat Nance, who guides hiking into the Rockies, biking, and casino getaways. Heritage Todd Creek residents are crazy about activities — a crooners singers group, Texas-hold’em tourneys, and six golf groups (one shoots only three holes, then adjourns to Creekside Grille in the clubhouse). Monthly HOA, including for grandkid-friendly pools, everything but the greens, currently runs only $145.
You could take the keys on a home today (Heritage Todd Creek has a special on a 1,613-foot Dural single-family ranch, originally $363,450, now $299,900, available for 20% down at 3.0% 30-year-fixed (APR 4.034)…or get one started with time to sell your current home. You could also win other prizes offered every hour. Take I-25 north past 120th, another six miles to Hwy 7, then east 5.5 miles to Yosemite.
If you go…
WHERE: Heritage at Todd Creek, ‘Taste of Heritage’ event; specialties by clubhouse chef served in 3 furnished ranch models; reverse mortgage, buy-out & lease programs; Buckhorn Exchange dinner drawing; weekend special 1,613-sf ranch. 8585 E. 152nd Lane, Thornton; take I-25 north past 120th, 6 mi. to Hwy 7, head east 5 mi. to Yosemite, and south.
PRICE: From $289,900, single-family ranches from $299,900
WHEN: Today & Saturday, 10 a.m. until 6 p.m., Sunday 11-6
PHONE: 866-483-1565 WEB: HeritageToddCreekLifestyle.com or Lennar.com
