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We are excited to announce the opening our newest model home located in Lafeyette Estates in Herriman. Located off of 12300 S and 5800 W in Herriman this unique subdivision has it all. Lafayette features mostly 3rd acre lots and up. The community is made up of all custom homes. There are a variety of home builders in the area too so you get the true custom home feeling but at production pricing.

Located near the new Riverton High School and just 3 minutes up the road from Bangerter HWY Lafayette offers all you would want in a central location but without the big city feel. Larger home builders in the area have tried to take over the neighborhood but the land owners have decided to work with smaller custom home builders to try and preserve the integrity of the homes and maintain values.

Herriman is one of the nicest Cities in Salt Lake County. With the new schools and brand new multi-million dollar community center just down the street, you’re sure to enjoy every minute of it.

Pepperdign Homes is the most open book builder in the State of Utah!

Naturally, price is at the top of the list of questions for every home buyer as they begin their search for a new home. Some builder use bait and switch marketing tactics to exploit this aspect of the buyers selection process. While shopping for a new home and selecting a builder, new home buyers must educate themselves about the quality of the materials that are included in the builders base price. Many builders have adopted a “bait and Switch” strategy of marketing and selling their homes. The “bait and switch” involves constructing a model home in which the builder displays many upgraded features. These “upgrades” you see in the model home typically add up to tens of thousands of dollars, even as much as $100,000 is not uncommon.

By design, these model homes are not a very good representation of what the customer is getting for the builder’s base price of the home. When customers ask the sales representatives of these builders “how much would it cost to build a home with all of the features included in the model home?” the answer is rarely straight forward. Their strategy is to get you to buy without knowing that what you are getting is an inferior home with poor quality features. Typically it is not until later that these buyers realize that they are not getting what they thought, and that they must pay tens of thousands of dollars extra in order to have a home that has any resemblance to the home they thought they were getting. By then it is usually too late for the buyers to back out without losing their deposit, and they are stuck with a cheaply built home, or having to pay much more for all those “upgrades”.
Pepperdign Homes is Committed to Integrity

Pepperdign Homes is morally opposed to these unethical sales practices. We are committed to bringing integrity back to home building. That is why we have assembled the following list of features that most new home buyers want included in their homes. We have also included a range of prices from our research that other builders charge for these features. Our intent is not to disparage our competitors, rather it is to help educate you, the buyer that you may get the most value from your new home purchase.

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This is a great article by KSL on the local market. As a home builder we have seen an increase as well in the market. The one thing to remember is what goes on locally is not the same as the rest of the Country and that is something I have been talking about for a long time.

We are just getting ready to break ground on our new development in Riverton off of 13400 South and 2700 West. The subdivision will have 20 lot all 3rd acres or greater. We are extremely fortunate to be able to have this opportunity right now, with so few new developments under construction.

There are less and less of these types of locations going in, and with that it becomes harder and harder for buyers to find prime locations to live… so we are excited to open this project early next Spring. We will have a model home just off the entrance and prices will range from the low $300′s and up.

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