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YOU CAN HAVE THE ULTIMATE UPGRADES IN YOUR NEW CONSORT HOME!

Now you can own a new Green Certified Consort Home and add those finishing touches such as granite countertops, luxury kitchen, upgraded appliances and much more at NO ADDITIONAL COST through the month of March!  

Consort Homes has 15 new home communities in the Greater St. Louis area to choose from including Wentzville, Lake Saint Louis, St. Peters,  North County, Imperial, Arnold, Chesterfield, O’ Fallon and Creve Coeur.

Visit a Consort Homes community or call 314-741-3037 for details!

**OFFER AMOUNT VARIES BY COMMUNITY AND PRODUCT LINE AND MAY BE WITHDRAWN AT ANY TIME.  SEE SALES MANAGER IN THE COMMUNITY OF YOUR CHOICE FOR DETAILS. OFFER SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE. OFFER ONLY APPLIES TO NEW CONTRACTS DATED MARCH 1ST- 31st, 2011. THIS OFFER CANNOT BE COMBINED WITH OTHER OFFERS.

Green home builder is one of only eight companies across the country to receive recognition

St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 25, 2011… St. Louis-based Consort Homes, the largest certified green builder in Missouri, was recently recognized by national home builder organization Builder Partnerships for delivering one of the highest levels of customer service in the home building industry. Builder Partnerships focuses on strengthening relationships, improving communication and providing educational opportunities for builders, manufacturers and others within the home building industry. The organization presented Consort Homes with the first annual Achievement Award for Highest Distinction in customer satisfaction during the recent International Builders Show in Orlando, Fla. Consort was one of eight home building companies to receive this top honor and the only winning home builder located in the St. Louis area.

“The Builder Partnerships Achievement Award in customer satisfaction recognizes those companies that have the ability to deliver what is most important to homebuyers – quality construction and a great buying experience,” said Monica Wheaton, CEO of Builder Partnerships. “Consort Homes certainly fits that bill.”

 For its inaugural Achievement Award, Builder Partnerships collaborated with Woodland, O’Brien & Associates to conduct an independent customer satisfaction survey. Those builders that had at least 93 percent of their homebuyers within the past year say they were willing to refer the company to friends or families were recognized in the Highest Distinction in Customer Satisfaction category. More than 350 builders were nominated for the award.

 “We are proud to be one of only a few home builders to receive this award from Builder Partnerships,” says Ken Stricker, CEO of Consort Homes. “The service rating we received is a testament to our commitment to customer service and solidifies what customers already know – that Consort Homes provides quality homes and is the only builder for them.”  

Consort Homes Receives Customer Satisfaction Award 

Consort Homes, which was officially founded in 2005 but has roots dating back 45 years, is the first home builder of any size to commit to building 100 percent green. The homes they produce include a variety of energy-efficient features that contribute to improved home quality and homeowner comfort, while ultimately lowering energy demand and reducing air pollution.

The company has experienced significant growth in recent years, jumping up two spots to become the third largest single family home builder in St. Louis in 2010. Last year, Consort closed on 84 homes, which was a 50 percent increase from 2009, and the company expects to see a 25 percent increase in growth in 2011. The company has 14 communities under development in the Missouri communities of Arnold, Chesterfield, Creve Coeur, Dardenne Prairie, Florissant, Imperial, Lake St. Louis, St. Charles, St. Peters and Wentzville. Approximately 600 sites are available for sale across the metro area

“Our emphasis on customer service is a key element to long-term success,” noted Ed Petras, Director of Sales and Marketing at Consort Homes. “The recognition we received is a validation of the quality people we have doing a quality job, while providing a great customer experience, and it’s important for us that our company doesn’t lose sight of that.”

With over 45 years of combined home building experience, Consort Homes combines quality green construction and true craftsmanship that will endure the test of time. The first home builder of any size to commit to building 100 percent green and the largest certified green builder in Missouri, Consort Homes assists homebuyers in adopting a greener home life by making green features in every home standard. The builder’s homes include a variety of tried-and-true energy-efficient features that contribute to improved home quality and homeowner comfort, ultimately lowering energy demand and reducing air pollution. For more information, call (636) 282-1963 or visit www.consort-homes.com.

Consort Receives Industry Recognition for Customer Satisfaction

Consort Homes acquired the remaining 19 home sites at Avalon in Dardenne Prairie in the summer of 2010.  Taylor Morley started this successful community adjacent to Winghaven in the heart of the “Golden Triangle” with homes sold up to $484,000!  Consort Homes’ relationship with Meramec Valley Bank made the opportunity to build an affordable “move up” home in such a great location possible.  With Consort Homes purchasing the Avalon home sites at today’s prices, we are able to pass the value on to our customers. When the community is complete there will be a total of 69 homes.

Avalon features our elegant Heritage Collection of homes with an included 3 car side entry garage!  Our homes at Avalon range from 2240 sq ft to over 3200 sq ft and our pricing spans $243,990-$300,000’s representing the best value in the area and an opportunity to own a new home in the sought after Fort Zumwalt West School District!
With a strong finish to the end of 2010, the completion of the of Bates Road expansion, 4 home sites under contract and our first new home being started soon, Avalon is poised for terrific growth in 2011. Our newly completed Windsor display sits home site #1 at the entrance to the community, and 14 more opportunities to build are available!

Avalon offers spacious walk out, look out, in-grade home sites, cul de sac and corner home sites ranging from 12,000 sq ft to over 20,000 sq ft! Some of the largest in the area!

People love the large home sites and the added architectural detail that the side entry garages give the home.  That combined with a beautiful streetscape, energy efficient green certified homes, distance between homes and ample yard make Avalon a great investment.

Avalon offers a quiet neighborhood feel while being just minutes from everything including Chesterfield Valley, The Meadows at Lake St. Louis and easy access to Highway 40, 70 and the Page Extension.

Contact Mike Price at 636-272-5024 to schedule your personal visit!   

Consort Homes is an eco-friendly, green home builder in  St. Louis with 14 locations in North County, St. Charles County, Jefferson County including Wentzville, O’Fallon, Lake St. Louis, Chesterfield, St. Charles, St. Peters, Creve Coeur, Florrisant, Dardenne Prairie, Arnold and Imperial.   Our Homes are energy efficient, stylish and located in beautiful neighborhoods that will stand the test of time.

Misty Hollow Community Sales Manager

Katie Kuntz is a St. Louis native growing up in St. Paul, Missouri. Prior to joining Consort Homes, Katie obtained her bachelor degree in Entertainment Management from Missouri State University. While attending school, she worked for the City of Springfield as the Assistant Special Event Coordinator.

Katie moved back to her hometown and took a position with an event and wedding planner in 2009. She worked throughout the St. Louis area and southern Illinois helping to produce gorgeous weddings, events and parties for a variety of clientele.

Always interested in a real estate career, Katie jumped at the chance to get her foot in the door at Consort Homes. Katie began working with Consort at the beginning of 2010 as a part time sales assistant. Knowing that her ultimate goal was to become a community sales manager herself, she worked hard to gain experience in each of Consort’s product lines and general industry knowledge. That work paid off as she was given the opportunity to be the Community Sales Manager for Misty Hollow in August of 2010.

Her favorite part of the job is helping families fulfill their dream of home ownership and the relationships she builds along the way. Similar to her background in wedding and events planning, the Community Sales Manager position allows her to wear many hats. The process of new home construction utilizes her planning, time management, business skills and sometimes even counseling! Katie believes her role in new home sales is not about a transaction, but about consulting and customizing the path to home ownership for each customer in order to achieve their home dreams. Her goal is to make the experience memorable, exciting, and as smooth as possible.

She feels very lucky to start her real estate career with the best home builder in St. Louis. Consort truly cares about their customers, the service they provide and takes their approach to green building beyond just offering energy efficient features. The talented and experienced staff and sales team that embraced her from her first day has been a true blessing. The challenges and mentoring they’ve provided is the true reason for her success at Consort.

When she’s not servicing her community of Misty Hollow, Katie enjoys activities like snow skiing, playing softball and wake boarding. She loves entertaining friends and family at her St. Charles home and of course, helping them plan special events and weddings!

Consort Homes is an eco-friendly, green home builder in  St. Louis with 14 locations in North County, St. Charles County, Jefferson County including Wentzville, O’Fallon, Lake St. Louis, Chesterfield, St. Charles, St. Peters, Creve Coeur, Florrisant, Dardenne Prairie, Arnold and Imperial.   Our Homes are energy efficient, stylish and located in beautiful neighborhoods that will stand the test of time.

Great job to Kris and Jeff at Countryshire for continuing to give our customers nothing but the best service through being professional, friendly and easy to talk to!  What a great compliment that a customer would take the time to send a letter to our CEO & President.

Thank you Colleen for your kinds words below.  We really do appreciate your business.

Hello,

I just wanted to write a quick email to tell you what a great job both Kris and Jeff have done to make building our home such a pleasurable experience! From day one Kris has been awesome, she didn’t beat around the bush like some sales managers do, and she has always been very professional and easy to talk to.  It was a joy working with her!

We had a TERRIBLE experience the last time we built a home and didn’t have very high hopes coming into this process again, because we figured that is just how the business was. Boy, were we wrong! We were so impressed that Jeff took the time to go over everything with us at the pre construction meeting and he even gave us his cell phone number! You can tell he really wants this to be a great experience for us.

We are so confident that we are going to get a BEAUTIFUL home with quality people involved at every aspect that really take pride in their work.  We just cannot wait for it to be done now!

If you ever need a satisfied homeowner’s reference, please feel free to contact me at any time!

Respectfully,

Colleen

As part of a school beautification service project at Discovery Ridge Elementary a planting day was organized for October 22nd.  Several business donated plant material and mulch.  Consort Homes donated two flowering pear trees which were planted in front of the school.   Kris Sewing, a Community Sales Manager at Consort, volunteered to plant and work with the kids.  The counselor and principal selected twelve children from grades 1-5 to assist with the service project.  They stripped the sod around the flag pole, planted rose bushes and grasses then mulched the entire area.  The trees were then planted later.

Thank you to Chandra Fessler Interiors, Baxter West Gardens, Classic Landscapes and our very own Countryshire Homeowners for your donations to Discovery Ridge Elementary to help make this happen!

Through Facebook, MyConsortHome recently asked homeowners what their favorite features are in their own Consort built home.  We received some great and very helpful responses through our Facebook post.

Jenna from Newport won a $500.00 visa gift card through a random drawing just for posting what her favorite feature was!!   Jenna said “I LOVE my Juniper in Newport Meadow. We have such an open floor plan and I love my huge master bedroom. The nieghbors are great too.” 

Here are some other things our homeowners had to say about their homes;

 “I love the low electric and gas bills that come every month because of the bronze level of “green” Consort built into our home. It’s big piece of the Consort quality pie.” -Diane

“We love that we are able to have two living rooms since we have our bonus room upstairs :) we also love that every bedroom has a walk in closet! There honestly isn’t much we don’t love about our home :)” -Colleen

“ I love my Norfolk in Newport Meadow. Warm cozy rooms, great open floor plan huge garage. I really like the way my kitchen opens to the family room.” -Sharon

“We just moved in our Windsor in Stone Creek. All our neighbors are great! We love our window walls and how open the floor plan is. Everything flows nicely. We looked at several home builders before deciding on Consort. I feel we made the right decision. Everyone we have dealt with has been great. We look forward to many years in our new Consort home.” -Mark

“I like my open floor plan on my Sierra. Spacing between our houses is great we are not right on top of each other. Also living in Stone Creek is the subdivision to live in if you like great neighbors and having fun.” -Jamie

“We love the fact that our master bedroom is on the main level in the Cortland. We also love the closet being in the bathroom.” -Melissa

  “It is so hard to say I have a favorite feature of my CONSORT home as I have many….from the very beginning of the purchase process to now after one and a half years living in my new home. The sales personnel and building superviser could not have been nicer or more helpful. I have the Madison and love everything about it …the 9 ft ceilings, wood floor, open floor plan with still having private areas and the window wall overlooking beautiful trees. Another great plus was during the 3 month, 9 month, and 12 month walk throughs, there was nothing that had to be corrected ! The construction of this home has been superb. I love my Madison home and would recommend it and CONSORT HOMES to everyone ! Come see Countryshire. It’s a wonderful place to call home.” -Debbie

“We love our Windsor at Stone Creek. The huge kitchen is my favorite room in the house and I love how it is open to the family room. It is perfect for entertaining! Also, we love this community and couldn’t have asked for better neighbors.” -Jennifer

“LOVE my Windsor at Stone Creek. I love the spacious floor plan and the bonus room upstairs allows me to keep the downstairs presentable while enjoying cozy living space upstairs. STONE CREEK HAS THE BEST NEIGHBORS, TOO (maybe because our spacious lots allow a buffer – LOL)! I can’t speak highly enough about the subdivision. ALso, Consort’s product is second to none, plus their customer service is detail oriented and client focused.” -Brenda

“We are building a madison in countryshire, which will be finished next month! Our favorite feature of the house is the window wall and the bay in the back. It makes the house feel so open, even more so then it already is :) We are looking forward to the move, because it is our dream home that we never thought we could afford!” -Michelle

  “My husband and I are building the Andover model in Countryshire. One of our favorite features of the Andover is the fact that the rooms are large and spacious. However, what we love most is the idea that Consort is using green technologies… to make the home not only look great, but last longer and save us money on our heating and cooling costs in the future. With the rise of energy costs in the past 2 years, this is something we wanted to make a priority when we decided to move out of our current home. We have always wanted to build a home that was more energy efficient. Thank you Consort for taking part in the green movement and allowing us to do this. We look forward to moving in to our new home!” -Maria

“We love our Cortland @ stone creek , great space in the home and keeps the kids upstairs with their own space . Love the quality of the build and the fact that it was built with union labor , being a tradesman myself that was a great selling point for my family . Our neighborhood is filled with great people and a lot of kids who I’m sure will have a lot of fun growing up together and us parents have a blast as well.” -Kurt

“I’m in Newport Meadow (Norfolk home) and remember looking for a year at homes to build. We are in the country but close to town. Every time I pull up to my home, I still get that I love my house feeling. Built with good bones and 4 years later I still have that new home feeling. Would do it all over again (and just may when it comes time to downsize to a ranch).” -Sharon

Unclog Your Drain Naturally

Do you ever complain about hair in your drain clogging up the shower?  Solve it with green power Pain in the Drain

If you are a person with shoulder length or long hair, you are probably familiar with removing hair from the shower drain. Unfortunately, hair will still find its way down the drain and eventually lead to a clog. Instead of rushing to the store to buy volatile unclogging chemicals or calling the plumber, simply use the following advice.

•One of the best solutions is prevention. There are various inexpensive products offered by many retailers such as drain protectors that will keep your drain clog-free.

•Unclog the drain yourself. To safely do this, pour ¾ cup of dry baking soda down the drain followed by ½ cup of vinegar. Immediately plug the drain with a cloth or rubber stopper and wait 35-40 minutes. Pull out the cloth or stopper and pour a pot of boiling water down the drain.

•Avoid the arsenal of industrial cleaners. Powerful commercial cleaners such as lye can cause harm to your health, the wastewater stream, and PVC pipes. Furthermore, when lye is mixed with acid it can wreak havoc on your bathroom.

•Purchase non-toxic uncloggers. Companies such as Drainbo offer unclogging cleaners made from all-natural ingredients and enzymes. Although these products are generally a bit more expensive, they will eliminate the need to use extremely caustic chemical cleaners.

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