Value
Vintage Homes are packed with standard features including hardwood, granite, tile, fiber cement siding, sod and more

Energy Efficient
Energy Star certified Vintage Homes are up to 25% more efficient than your average new home. Duct work is pressure tested and homes are blower door tested to ensure tight construction.

Green Features
Vintage Homes feature Rinnai Tankless Water Heaters, Energy Star windows and appliances, Shaw Envirocore Hardwood Floors, Shaw Carpet made with recycled plastics, Flash Foam and Batt insulated wall for R-17 insulation value.

Warranty
Vintage Homes offers 2-10 Homebuyers’ Warranty free of charge; extending your new home’s systems’ warranty for 2 years and the structural warranty for 10 years.

Craftsmanship
Winner of Gold Award for Craftsmanship in the 2009 Homearama, Vintage makes attention to detail a priority inside and out.

Choices
Vintage currently offers 7 home plans to choose from, with new ones constantly being developed. An extensive options list allows you the opportunity to personalize your home. And Vintage Homes will work with you on custom options to insure that your new home is everything you want and need it to be.

Visit Culpepper Landing today and see the Vintage Advantage for yourself.
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Culpepper Landing view of row homes

Today Trisha came by the lucky winner  of the Taylor Swift tickets. She shared  how wonderful the concert was. Best of all were the awesome seats… close to the stage!  The most heart warming part of the story is that she had a friend that had waited in line to purchase tickets and after a long wait found out the concert was sold out. Imagine her friends  joy when she found out she was getting to go. Stay posted we have some other really cool events coming soon!

There are several Row Homes available for delivery before the tax credit deadline. These homes are built by award winning builder ABT Custom Homes.  We have some beautiful choices of cabinets and granite countertops for the kitchens. The courtyards are perfect for a cook out and a small garden plot!  The detached two car garages are finished inside. While walking the homes last weekend with a couple it was great to see how others viewed them. The floor plans are awesome!  The interior units have  a built in desk with drawers. It’s a perfect computer space, pay bills or plan the weeks meals.   Be sure and check out the virtual tour of the Nelson on the web site.

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We are having a special promotion from March 1 through March 13, for the Row Homes at Culpepper Landing.  Folks can come out to view the row homes and take a chance on winning a pair of tickets to the Taylor Swift concert in Charlottesville.  Taylor Swift’s  Charlottesville concert  is sold out, its the hottest country concert of the year! America’s Country (106.1) will be on site March 13th 11am -1pm registering listeners to win the Taylor Swift concert tickets.   Listeners can start registering March 1st and the winner will be announced at the remote.  How exciting is that?   So, you know, I got to thinking wouldn’t it be great for us to hold some concerts here for the residents on site! Maybe in the green space by the pool and club house.  Well you never know.

For your listening and viewing pleasure check out this video.    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq8QDbp_oiw   Return to the Dismal Swamp.  The video is good, though I don’t believe there are any crocs in the Dismal Swamp.   Lots of birds though and soon they will be a plenty!

You’ll come visit us!

We’ve already moved three new families in since the first of the year.  At the rate we are going our neighborhood should double in families in short order! Our builders and developers are bringing on some new floor plans and designs.  We really have something for everyone. Doreen and I are having so much fun watching the neighborhood grow and we are as excited as the residents to see the progress with all the new homes going up. Soon the apartment buildings will be underway. This complex will be great for those who choose to rent. The apartments will have a club house and pool as well. The design is in keeping with the neighborhood and very pleasing to the eye.

I can hardly wait to see the Drummond Inn once it’s built with the marina for boats using the inter coastal waterway. Check out this video I found on You Tube.

Hope you enjoy!

Just a few days ago, January 19, would have been Edgar Allen Poes’, 201st birthday. Born in Boston, MA, after the death of both of his parents, he moved with foster parents to Richmond, VA.  Though he had a short life (dying at the age of 40), he left behind a legacy of writing. He is credited with starting the Detective / mystery writing genre.  The poem he is most famous for The Raven, is said to have been penned after a visit to the Dismal Swamp.  Along with Longfellow and Harriet Beecher Stowe, he is one of the many writers to have been inspired by the mystery of the Dismal Swamp.

When it’s a bit foggy outside and at night with the gases coming out of the swamp causing mysterious light, it is easy to see the inspiration. Though the swamp be referred to as Dismal, not so this wonderful neighborhood bordered by the swamp and the inter coastal waterway.

I say that the neighborhood is anything but Dismal… based on the number of visitors coming in to check out our neighborhood. We will be adding two families to the neighborhood this coming week.  The real estate market is down in many parts of the country, for Doreen and I it seems not so in our neck of the woods!   One visitor this weekend pointed out the number of homes he saw being built and how reassuring that was.

It’s music to our ears to pull in and hear the hammers going.  It is wonderful to see so much activity going on in the neighborhood. I watched today as one of the neighbors mowed his lawn while the children played on their bikes.  Folks out walking their dogs and families out exploring the neighborhood, just as the vision of a traditional neighborhood development theme calls for.  I smiled as I locked the model home at the end of the day.

We wrote another contract today for a family moving back to Chesapeake from a neighboring city.  It’s a privilege to help bring folks home to Culpepper Landing.

Did I mention the “street people” of Culpepper Landing. Let’s talk about Robert Frost and his connection to the Dismal Swamp. So the story goes, Robert Frost was wild about a girl.  He had aspirations of marriage…. She thought finishing their education and then moving toward the alter was the way to go.  Robert Frost had dropped out of college and decided to visit her un announced! Not good in his day. She refused to see him so Robert Frost decided to head south to the Dismal Swamp and end it all.  Instead after making his way to the Dismal Swamp via Norfolk, VA to Deep Creek,  he spent some time and decided this wasn’t the way to end it all. Finally he returned North to his true love who later became his wife! Nice ending to the story wouldn’t you say.

We’ve had an awesome beginning to the year 2010 with a flurry of activity and some new folks deciding to call Culpepper Landing their home.  In spite of the extremely cold weather our visitors have been braving the cold to come and take a look.  As I was showing a family the Dover plan this weekend they were lamenting the fact they missed Homearama. I only have two Homearama homes left to show.  All the others have been scooped up.   The Elizabeth, built by Widener Homes, is an excellent specimen of Charleston style architecture.  A wrap porch and balcony give an unmatched curb appeal to this lovely home.  All the amenities in a new home they you could dream of with the charm and character of yesteryear that makes this a place you can really call home.  Check out the virtual tour on our website.  You won’t be disappointed.

Today was an absolutely gorgeous day at Culpepper Landing.  Our weather has turned cold and windy.  Still the neighbors were out walking the pooches, taking down the Christmas decorations and a few brave souls ventured out to view our homes.  We start this year on a high note as we finished up with six more sales in the neighborhood and a flurry of  folks moving in in time for Christmas and the New Year.

Simpson Builders, has come on board as a member of the Guild and soon we will have their first buyers moving into the community. In case you ventured out for Homearama, their home The Bright Idea Home, was House number 1 in the show.  Features included an office/ study area off the family room. Roomy porch, outdoor entertainment area, detached garage, mud room entrance to collect shoes, coats, etc.   Check out the virtual tour of this lovely home.   http://www.tourimaging.com/vt/House1/

Bill Ore, LLC.  builders of the award winning Christmas House, are in full swing with their Kristie Lynn, just started and already sold on Lot 67!  They have tweeked the Christmas House, also known as the Elderberry, the Elderberry II, features five bedrooms, with a master bedroom down,  wrap porch, detached garage with carport/entertainment area and a room over the detached garage which can be finished as well.  They also have a plan the Dawn Michelle which is a very nice cottage plan.  We have 33 families now living in Culpepper Landing.  It’s really been delightful for us all to see the neighborhood taking shape and the folks moving in.

I spoke with one of the neighbors as I left this evening, a quick exchange due to the cold,  turned the corner and watched a neighbor de-Christmasing.. as I call it. I turned my car from Robert Frost to Mill Creek Parkway and looked toward the Row Homes, which now have 8 residents living there.  Did I hear Auld Lange Syne, on the radio,  I found my thoughts to how a quick year for me in Culpepper.  From no homeowner’s to 33 living in the neighborhood in one year.  It was a whirlwind when we found in March, Homearama 2009 would be held there.  Ahhh, the opening night when I stood and looked down Dodd, all adorn with the “Homearama Homes,” truly,  Main Street, USA.   It’s a privilege to see this community grow.  The neighbors are as welcoming as the homes themselves. The empty nesters, the retirees, the new bride and groom, the folks welcoming their new baby.  It’s been a wonderful year at Culpepper Landing and I look forward to the year to come!

Christmas comes to Culpepper Landing with our residents enjoying their first Christmas in their new homes and in Culpepper Landing. One of the row home residents wrote a wonderful thank you note to Doreen and I. She mentioned watching a Bald Eagle as it soared around the lake in front of her home. It’s peaceful and serene around the lake.   You can walk on the pier and sit and watch the birds.  In better weather you can read a book and enjoy the quiet time.

Our own Kris Kringle has moved in and his home explains the nickname.  Many of our neighbors have truly decked the halls!  The only thing missing is the snow! How cool would a white Christmas be. We don’t get many of those in this region but we can hope!

Of the 12 Homearama Homes, we have contracts on 10, that leaves only two. Someone will be getting a great deal on those homes. One is the Elisabeth by Widener Homes. It’s a Charleston style 2 story with a beautiul office on the first floor with built in book cases, play closet for the little ones, dining room and family room.You can view the virtual our at http://www.tourimaging.com/vt/House2/  

  The Whittaker is still available and offers to its purchaser an additional $13,000.00 tax credit for the geo thermal HVAC system. This home features a master bedroom on the first floor, many built in’s,  family room, screened porch, detached garage with unfinished room over which can easily be completed as you wish.  The builder used hardwood flooring as well as concrete and cork ! Granite countertops, custom paint, designer touches make this an appealing home.  The virtual tour link  http://www.tourimaging.com/vt/House11.  

Enjoy the holidays with your family and friends and check back soon.