Dream Finders Homes has something out-of-the-ordinary to show anyone searching the north Denver/Boulder area for single-family homes at lower prices. In the town of Berthoud — 7 miles north of Longmont — you can see an Ashton 3-bedroom ranch ready for move-in, with a garden-level basement, full-wide 3-car garage, backing to a greenbelt, priced at $431,990. With a workable commute to north Denver or Boulder, itap in a town of only 6,000 residents, with a family-owned grocer and virtually no traffic.
“We only have one fast-food place,” says Brittany Weimer, pointing to the 1960s-era west on Berthoud’s Mountain Avenue, with a jukebox and a crowd of parents buying ice cream for kids after school.
A few blocks south, Weimer and Melissa Butler will show you two neighborhoods for Dream Finders’ ranch and family 2-story designs, both with prices that will look good to anybody searching Boulder County: Heritage Ridge, with city-sized lots and a pool scheduled to arrive this year, has sites for walkout or garden-level basements, some homes ready now. Next door at High Plains, Dream Finders’ designs are on bigger-than-average size sites, some to 12,000 square feet.
Along with a Fleming II 4-bedroom ranch show home, showing options for basement finish, you can tour homes in both areas for early delivery; such as a Yukon in High Plains — four bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths, plus loft, gourmet kitchen, covered patio and full-wide 3-car garage, at $430,990 — still time left to pick some finishes.
Itap a two-block walk from Ivy Stockwell Elementary — seven-for-ten stars at GreatSchools.org; and a few blocks from well-rated Berthoud High. Weimer says those schools, along with quick access to Longmont, makes this a great setting to raise kids, but adds that Dream Finders also attracts downsizing buyers to its ranch plans, some ready now, including one you could have built from scratch for just $346,990.
Those prices look good to Boulder County buyers, says Weimer, noting they average $130,000 less than what buyers there see; but she adds that the small-town charm draws visitors from as far away as Highlands Ranch. “They’re tired of the traffic and the growth.”
To visit, take I-25 north past 470, another 26 miles to Exit 250/Berthoud, then head west on Hwy 56, 5 miles to Fifth Street in the center of town. Turn south nine blocks to Dream Finders’ model. Or from Longmont, head north on U.S. 287 7 miles to Hwy 56, and turn east.
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