Pardee Homes Meets the Needs of Homebuyers of All Ages; 90 Year-Old Buyer Chooses LivingSmart Homes at Tournament Hills

    BEAUMONT, CA, February 09, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Since 1921, Pardee Homes has been providing smart solutions to homebuyers with great locations, quality construction and industry-leading green and safe building practices. About the same time that George M. Pardee Sr. began designing and building custom homes, a woman named Margeriete Butcher was born in Oklahoma. Now 90 years later, both Margeriete and Pardee Homes are celebrating this milestone year together, as Margeriete settles into her new home at LivingSmart Homes at Tournament Hills in Beaumont.

With the help of her son, Charles Butcher, Margeriete has made the move to a new Pardee home after 58 years living in the same home in Pomona. "She is living on her own in a great little one-story house and loves it," said Charles Butcher. "She's really happy and is enjoying her time looking through the boxes we moved that are filled with mementos and belongings that she has had for years. She's healthy and active for her age, and anxious to get back to her hobbies which include crafts such as needlepoint and beading, reading and fishing. The lake at Tournament Hills is a great amenity, and we look forward to taking my mom fishing right here in her own neighborhood this spring."

Charles Butcher, who is a former employee of the Beaumont-Cherry Valley Water District, lives four miles from Tournament Hills in Beaumont. When his mother said she wanted to move, LivingSmart Homes provided the perfect floor plan, as well as a community where she could feel safe.

"The new home is just four miles from mine, plus the gated neighborhood was a big factor in moving my mother to Tournament Hills where there is also the lake, walking trails and parks," said Butcher. "She likes living closer to family and 'her' little park in the neighborhood."

"It's an honor to have been able to provide a new home for Margeriete Butcher, and so rewarding to see the smile on her face as she settles into her home," said Peter Altuchow, director of sales for Pardee Homes. "We pride ourselves on customer satisfaction, as well as offering value, contentment and community for the past 90 years, and hope that Margeriete finds all of these things as she celebrates her 91st year in her brand new LivingSmart home at Tournament Hills."

With a total of eight floor plans to choose from in two distinct master-planned communities, there is certainly something for every type of homebuyer at LivingSmart Homes. One- and two- story floor plans range from three to seven bedrooms, two to four baths with two- and three-bay garages and approximately 1,132 to 3,099 square feet. Ingenious touches such as gourmet kitchens with slab granite and stainless steel appliances are complemented by a host of room options such as media niches, extra bedrooms, fireplaces, garage workshops, master bedroom decks and a four-bay garage in select plans.

Priced from the high $100,000s, the LivingSmart Homes are brimming with a wealth of features including the addition of several new standard features such as sleek matching master bath mirrors, contemporary sinks and furniture-style cabinetry. Other features include designer-selected interior light fixtures and architecturally specified recessed lighting, separate interior laundry rooms and spacious master bedroom suites with luxurious bathrooms, private dressing areas and walk-in closets. To make buying a new home even easier, Pardee offers a variety of optional features including value kitchen packages, home wiring packages, bath fixture bundles and LivingSmart packages.

Standard energy-efficient features include Energy Star rated dishwashers, low-E spectrally selective glass windows, fluorescent lights in select recessed cans, dimmer switches and occupancy sensors, and radiant barrier roof sheathing. Buyers can also add such earth-friendly options as roof-integrated solar electric power systems, high- efficiency air filtration systems, tankless water heaters, WaterSmart controllers for landscape, reverse osmosis water system in the kitchen, central vacuum systems, and more. Energy efficiency in a LivingSmart home exceeds California's Title 24 criteria, already the toughest in the nation.

As the top selling new home community in the Inland Empire last year, LivingSmart Homes received multiple industry and consumer awards, including SoCal Awards Community of the Year and Southern California Consumers Choice Award.

Tournament Hills in Beaumont has a gorgeous private lake and about seven acres of park space, walking trails, picnic areas and a new elementary school. Additionally, the LivingSmart Homes' enclave adjoins the Morongo Golf Club at Tukwet Canyon, home of the Southern California PGA, with two 36-hole championship courses.

Canyon Hills offers homeowners trails, parks, schools, convenient shopping and two residents-only recreation centers with beautiful swimming pools, not to mention its proximity to all the great recreational activities that make Lake Elsinore popular with boat enthusiasts, skydivers, wakeboarders and cyclists.

For more information about Pardee Homes and LivingSmart Homes, visit www.pardeehomes.com or call (888) 4PARDEE. Find Pardee on Facebook at www.fb.com/livingsmarthomes. To visit the models at Tournament Hills in Beaumont, exit I-10 at Oak Valley Parkway and go west, then follow the signs to the models. To visit the models at Canyon Hills in Lake Elsinore, exit I-15 at Railroad Canyon Road and go east 2.5 miles. Turn right on Canyon Hills Road and follow the signs.

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