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With some highly targeted remodeling and a some creative searching, you can save substantial amounts on your home-owners
insurance, even in Florida’s Gulf-Of-Mexico-bounded counties.

Cheap homeowners insurance in South Florida. You may think such a thing doesn’t exist in this state that has been regularly
battered by hurricanes in the last few years. But with a little remodeling and a little comparison shopping, you can find
cheap homeowners insurance in South Florida.

Prepare Your Home

One of the keys to cheap homeowners insurance in South Florida is to take advantage of all the insurance discounts that are
available to you. For example, you can get discounts for installing:

• Hurricane shutters
• Impact-resistant windows

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There are no shortage of home builders and remodelers in the Pinellas, Hillsborough and Manatee County areas. So how should you go about choosing the right new home builder in Florida? This article gives an overview of the process of selecting the best home building contractor in Florida, but the same criteria could be used to select a remodeling contractor as well.

The Florida home builders with the highest quality homes to offer tend to follow a general set of guidelines in their construction procedures. Each builder is different, of course, but high-quality builders have certain things in common.

First, they use the highest quality materials and usually build their homes with solid, poured concrete. It’s even better if they use steel-reinforced concrete that is designed to withstand a powerful hurricane. When purchasing a home in Florida, hurricane safety must be a consideration. The highest quality home builders pride themselves on building homes that are above hurricane code. Ask about features such as impact resistant windows and a greater number of roof truss straps.

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This article helps to clarify the issues one must consider before embarking on the search for a vacant lot for building a new home. As counties in the Tampa Bay area build up, so-called “infill” becomes the dominant mode for new construction– particularly in Pinellas County, Florida‘s densest in population.

Next ensure that the lot you are considering meets the requirements for the building you are considering. What is the setback from the road? Are there any easements that are carried over to the lot that need to be considered? What is the maximum footprint your home can have in relation to the lot? All of these questions need to be approved by the municipality prior to construction. It would be wise to make inquiries prior to construction to determine that your home plan is appropriate for the lot you are considering.

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But, there is a certain mania that can sometimes go along with being “green” and that is why we each have to decide how “green” we each want to go individually. It is a personal thing we each have to decide on our own.

As builders, we feel that incorporating many “green” products and procedures into the homes and room additions we build as standard features just makes sense for home buyers and homeowners. Products like Low e windows, high efficiency heat pumps and programmable thermostats, Low VOC paints, low water consumption commodes, water efficient faucets and Energy Star appliances are just some of the products that we use as standard building products in our homes and jobs, but we also know that building “green” actually goes a little further than that.

Going “green” also includes using procedures like silt fencing around the property when construction is under way, having floor plans designed to maintain a home’s functionality, having job site plans drawn to help reduce material waste during actual construction, making sure water is being diverted away from the home, and sealing all of the home’s penetrations during construction. These are just some of the ways used to help make our projects more energy efficient and more “green.”

There are also many optional “green” products available today, with many more coming out every day, giving home buyers and home owners a wide selection of products for their homes. Each home owner has do decide on how “green” he or she may want to go.

Although we are NAHB Certified Green Professionals, we do not claim to know everything about “green” technology. We do try to stay current on “green” trends and products, in order to be able to provide pertinent information to our home buyers and room addition clients, so that they can make educated decisions as to what products they may want for their home.

Just saying that we are a “green” builder does not make it so. We know we have to put our money where our mouth is. That is why we not only try to stay current on the most current “green” products and technologies available, we try to incorporate the ones we feel can truly make a difference into our new homes and remodeling projects when it is economically feasible.

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According to a recent article written by Martin Crutsinger and Alan Zibel on Builder Online, the economic recovery is gaining strength with the biggest rise in construction spending in nearly a decade.

“The recovery is still on track,” said Brian Bethune, a senior economist at IHS Global Insight. While Europe’s troubles will put a drag on profits at U.S. companies that do business overseas, Bethune said, “it’s not going to be a show-stopper.”

The burst in April construction spending reported by the Commerce Department sent a promising signal for an industry that was among the hardest hit during the recession. The 2.7 percent increase was spread across all major sectors. But temporary government incentives fueled gains in two of three major categories. The economy will eventually have to manage with less government support.

John Silvia, chief economist at Wells Fargo, said: “It does look like there’s sustainable economic growth in the U.S. for the time being.”

Luxury homebuilder Toll Brothers Inc. last week reported a narrower loss in its latest quarter but said it had seen a surge in orders. The company said the strength in orders was holding up in May even though the tax credits had ended. “It appears our business has finally emerged from the tunnel and into a bit of daylight,” CEO Robert Toll said. Still, he cautioned, “We don’t expect housing to roar back right away.”

PulteGroup Inc., the nation’s largest homebuilder, reported in early May that it was able to reduce its loss for the first quarter and expected to be profitable this year. That would mark a key turning point for the company, which has posted losses in 14 consecutive quarters.

American Housing Builders, Inc. has noted more activity and are looking for things to continue to improve throughout the rest of the year. You can contact American Housing at 727-546-6611 or go to the “Contact Us” page and send a request for more information.

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In a May 18, 2010 story written by Teresa Burney at Builderonline, it is noted that April housing starts were up 5.8% compared to March and up 40.9% compared with April 2009 according to the Commerce Department’s monthly residential construction report. Single-family starts were up 10.2% month over month, to a seasonally adjusted level of 593,000.

Compared with April 2009, all of the regions throughout the U.S. saw increases: the Northeast was up 66%; the Midwest, 25%; the South, 59.6%; and the West, 3.5%, all on a year-over-year-basis.

In terms of future construction, total building permits hit a seasonally adjusted level of 606,000 units, which is 11.5% lower than the previous month, but on an annual basis, April’s overall building permits were 15.9% above the same month one year ago.

So, after all of the negative news we have been hearing over the past few years, it seems as though there is finally a light at the end of the tunnel for builders and consumers. Hopefully, this is the beginning of a continuing trend back to normalcy.

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