LAND ACQUISITION WARRANTY OUR PROMISE LOCATIONS 7 Reasons to Buy a NEW Home When looking to buy a new home in Tacoma, it is always important to evaluate all of your options. This includes looking into building a new home. There are many reasons to choose one of our new homes over a resale home. 1. Customization: When you choose to buy a new home you can customize your appliances, flooring, paint colors and other design elements and build a home that defines your lifestyle. Many home builders allow buyers to participate in the process of designing their property, which helps create a living space specifically tailored to the home buyer’s taste. 2. Building envelope: Building codes have mandated higher energy-efficiency standards since they began to address the issue in the late 1970s, says Kevin Morrow, senior program manager for the National Association of Home Builders’ green-building programs. The most recent International Energy Conservation Code came out in 2009 and required about 17% more efficient than three years earlier, he says. 3. Green appliances: The more energy-efficient mechanics of the house also help reduce utility bills for new-home buyers, Morrow says. New homes often include green systems and appliances — such as high-efficiency stoves, refrigerators, washing machines, water heaters, furnaces or air conditioning units — that homes built years ago might not. 4. Fewer repairs: The features of new homes should also hold up better than those of existing homes, which may have experienced years of wear and tear, says Evan Gilligan of Mandrin Homes, which has offices in Maryland and Delaware. 5. Less maintenance: At the same time, today’s new homes are engineered specifically to minimize maintenance requirements. For example, Costello says his company uses composite products for a home’s exterior trim instead of wood, which could rot or need repainting. 6. Warranty: To help with your piece of mine, we will take care of the necessary repair work needed in your new home for the first year. 7. Energy Efficient: Newly constructed homes use energy more efficiently in two ways, says Kevin Morrow, senior program manager for the National Association of Home Builders’ green building programs. First, they tend to have a tighter-sealed building envelope that helps prevent conditioned air—cool air in the summer, warm air in the winter—from escaping. This can be a huge cost saving for the new home buyer. Think higher-efficiency insulation, doors, and windows. Sager Family Homes is a locally owned, second generation family operated home builder in the Greater Puget Sound region. We are committed to building the best quality homes that your money can buy. Sager Family Homes • (253) 537-2313 • 9027 Pacific Ave • Tacoma, WA 98444 © 2021 Sager Family Homes • Website: Hemisphere