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Your Style
Your home is the embodiment of a lifestyle, it's everything you've worked to achieve. Building a home allows you to design a home suited to your lifestyle, personality and sense of style. Choose the lot, floor plan, and the amenities that you want, not someone else.

When you buy and existing home, you're buying someone else's style and you may not be able to make changes in the home that reflect your needs. Buying an existing home limits the options you may have to add your sense of style to it.

Home Warranty
Should anything go wrong, our company stands behind every home we build with a warranty. At Delco Builders & Developers we offer our home owners one of the best warranties in the business, covering everything from plumbing to wiring to appliances to craftsmanship. And if you need a repair, we're committed to having your work scheduled within one week and completed quickly thereafter..

Most warranties on existing properties ( if offered at all ) are offered to better sell the home and provide a very limited warranty. Ultimately you bear the responsibility of maintaining and repairing all aspects of the house.

Finance Options for Upgrades
With a new home you have the opportunity to select optional upgrades, such as built-in media centers and hardwood floors. You may be able to fold the cost of these options into your home mortgage, allowing you to pay for them over time. Many upgrades may actually improve the resale value of your home.

If you buy an existing home, unless you have significant home equity, updates to existing homes require full payment up front, not to mention the increased costs of making changes to a completed home vs. the ease of making changes before construction begins.

Today's Technology
Reputable builders use industry-leading, energy-saving innovations that enhance the quality of life for homeowners, from wiring and carpeting to kitchen appliances and roofing. For example, at Delco Builders & Developers you'll find the following on many of our new homes:

  • Under cabinet lighting in kitchens
  • Energy efficient dual pane white finish vinyl windows and patio doors with low-e glazing
  • Phone jacks wired with homerun category-5 telephone wire in den, kitchen and all bedrooms
  • Long-lasting flat tile roofs with class "A" fire rating
  • Home security systems complete with keypads & motion detectors

Used homes may lack important modern technologies, such as seismic retrofitting, being wired for today's technology or not having ground fault interruption (GFI) protection on the electrical system, which provide added safety for your family. Retrofitting these enhancements may simply cost too much and will eventually cost you more money in utility bills, etc.

Today's Amenities
The real estate industry and new construction specifically have continued to innovate through the real estate boom of the last 20 years. Because of this hyper-growth, more great amenities, new techniques and styles have emerged. When you build a home with Delco, you'll feel assured that you're building the start-of-the-art home with all of the amenities of today's industry including the latest appliances, fixtures, lighting and more.

Used homes generally come with older appliances, if any, and technology that may not be as efficient or effective as products on the market today.

Today's Floor Plans
Newly constructed homes feature floor plans to support the way families live today. Delco Builders works with award-winning design firms including The Dahlin Group and others that continually develop the best floorplans to cater to the needs of a changing lifestyle. Elevated ceiling, overlooks and a bonus room are just some of the features of some of our updated floorplans.

An existing home is build to meet the lifestyle of the generation for whom it was built. As lifestyles have changes so has the effectiveness of these styles. Although many older and historic homes have wonderful floorplans, building a home will offer you more flexibility.


If you're ready to get started on your new home, please check out our latest communities, or to speak with a member of our team call 925.671.7775 or send email to: sales@delcobuilders.com.

 
 
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