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Thanks for visiting our website.  For those who visited our model homes during the BATC Spring Preview, thanks.  We had a great turn-out.  The market has definitely improved in the past several months in our area, and interest rates are down!   Be sure and check out our BATC Fall Parade Home in Indigo Ponds.  The event runs from September 6 through October 5.   The hours are 4-7PM Thursday and Friday, and  12-6PM on week-ends.  This home is also showcased in the Parade mini-tour featuring Landsted’s “backyard vacation,” highlighting a spectacular in-ground pool.

We have many wonderful home-sites available in the developments below.  We will also build on any lot within a forty minute drive of our offices in Hudson, and are very familiar with other home-site opportunities, including the St. Croix River.  If you have found a site you are interested in, let us know.  We’d be happy to hike it with you as a courtesy, and offer our thoughts with no obligation.

As an incentive for those able and interested in starting their project soon, we are offering a substantial incentive bonus!  Contact Pam Noble or myself for more info on this.

This is also a great time to start planning that remodeling project. Whether it’s finishing your basement, adding a sun-room or rehabbing a kitchen or bath, with input from our interior design arm, HouseCalls Fine Interiors, Landsted makes remodeling easy.  If you get started planning your project now, it could be done this winter.

As mentioned in our last newsletter, we have refocused our emphasis on energy efficiency and healthy home features here at Landsted.  Given the current high cost of energy, our responsibility to be good stewards of this planet and with the rapidly expanding products and technology available, I am proud to say that the homes we are building now are far more energy efficient than those of just a few years ago. 

Our company now offers a series of products which offer substantial long-term energy savings. These products not only allow our clients to better manage their long-term energy costs, but help preserve our precious resources and environment as well and make your home more comfortable.  We’d be happy to provide you with a list of the various energy-efficiency, healthy home and sustainable products we recommend.  Check them out in our model homes.

Landsted is currently building in three fine neighborhoods in Western Wisconsin, and one in Minnesota:

Indigo Ponds, five miles east of Hudson, is a wonderful neighborhood.  All lots are heavily wooded, and most are suitable for walk-outs.  The 53 lots share miles of trails and beautiful spring-fed ponds suitable for canoeing, fishing, and swimming.  Our Engelwood model is available for sale at the price of $ 824,800, and is open from 1-5 week-ends or by appointment.  Packages start in the high $500’s.  Indigo Ponds is in the excellent Hudson School District.

Starr Wood,  just north of Hudson, has only a few lots left; some of the best.  The 25 lots share beautiful trails and over 700 feet of sandy St. Croix River beach and a large dock.  Home-sites are beautifully wooded and private, yet close to town.  Packages start in the mid $600’s.  Starr Wood residents also enjoy the Hudson School District. 

Hills of Troy, located just north of Wisconsin 35 between Hudson and River Falls off Coulee Trail, is a family-friendly neighborhood and truly outstanding.  A master-planned community with trails, athletic fields, tennis courts and more…and in a beautiful setting just five minutes from the Hudson bridge.  Check out our Cottagewood model home, available at the price of $ 874,800.  This home is open week-ends from 1-5 or by appointment.  Hills of Troy is in the top notch River Falls School District, and packages begin in the mid $ 500’s. 

Tii Gavo, just south of Scandia, Minnesota, features lots of over an acre in a fabulous preservation designed community featuring woods, trails, wetlands, and private boat slips with access to Big Marine Lake, one of the clearest in the state.  Tii Gavo is in the Forest Lake school system.  Call for more info and directions; a link is coming soon.

Any of these neighborhoods would be a great choice for your new home, less than 30 minutes from the airport or St. Paul.  They offer privacy, yet have a sense of community, small town charm and great amenities.  However, if these fine communities are not for you, let us know.  We have lived in this area our whole lives.  If you are looking for that perfect lot, we can find it.  We would also be happy to build on your lot within about forty minutes of our offices in Hudson, Wisconsin.  If your building site is farther than this, contact us if you are interested in our services.

Thanks for your interest in Landsted.   I look forward to hearing from you or seeing you in one of our fine model homes soon.