{"id":2464,"date":"2012-03-29T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=2464"},"modified":"2012-03-29T10:00:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T14:00:05","slug":"why-did-you-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/29\/why-did-you-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Did You Do It?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I never like writing one of those very \u2018salesy\u2019 blogs about my special community, with its amazing amenities, low HOA fees and wonderful wildlife and views.\u00a0 Whooops – Ha ha.\u00a0 Well, enough about me; what did my new family at Herring Creek say when I asked them why they choose The Villages at Herring Creek<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Tara said:<\/h3>\n

“We have moved here from Long Island, which seems like a simple thing when you say it, but to us it was a very big adventure.\u00a0 We felt like pioneers.\u00a0\u00a0 We love the New York area and yet, as our family was growing, we realized we wanted a change.\u00a0 We were looking for someplace that still had all the things we loved about Long Island – the beaches, good schools, great restaurants, the arts, and access to a big city – but with lower property taxes, more room to breathe, and the opportunity to build our dream house within our budget.\u00a0 Southern Delaware fit the bill from our very first visit, but it took us two years from making that first decision to move to buying our home in the Villages at Herring Creek.
\nWe moved here in July of 2010 as renters, enrolled our kids in the schools, and began our search for the perfect home.\u00a0 We had first seen VHC in March of 2009 on a visit here, and it made a big impression, but we wanted to be sure we had seen everything that was available in the area.\u00a0 We looked at so many communities and homes in the two years after that first visit, but we kept going back to VHC.\u00a0 The natural beauty and character of the neighborhood just felt like home, and in February of 2011 we finally told the Schell Brothers to start building us our Henlopen model!\u00a0 Working with the Schell Brothers was a great experience.\u00a0 There were so many models and floor plan options that we really felt we were constructing a home that would be unique to our tastes and needs as a family.\u00a0 Everyone from Josh and Adam who helped us through the sales and purchase process, to Larry who helped us pick out every fixture and floor tile, to Johnny who managed the construction, was a pleasure to work with, and you really felt like they shared in your interests in making sure everything in the home was going to come out perfectly.
\nWe absolutely love our home.\u00a0 Our kids have enjoyed making their rooms into their own space, and we have already created wonderful memories enjoying cooking with family and friends in our beautiful kitchen and relaxing in the sunroom.\u00a0 I recently had a moment where I stood in my driveway after a long day at work and stared at the sky in amazement – there were so many stars!\u00a0 In a densely populated area like Long Island, the light pollution really dims the night sky, but here we have gotten a lot of pleasure from stargazing with our kids since our move.\u00a0 We have also enjoyed the pool and the clubhouse, especially my teenager who uses the fitness room nearly every day.
\nYou know, it\u2019s also kind of hard to describe why our community is special.\u00a0 It just feels<\/em> special, and people have to visit it and compare it to the other communities in the area to really get a sense of that.\u00a0 We had been moving away from buying in a community, right up until the week before we purchased the lot; we thought we wanted a home on a private piece of land because the communities felt a bit sterile and cookie-cutter.\u00a0 On Long Island we would have called them Levittown communities (Google this!).\u00a0 But VHC didn\u2019t feel that way, it felt like a real neighborhood and the homes felt like they were a part of the natural landscape instead of on top of it.
\nWe look forward to all the memories we still have to create here, and we could not be happier with the service and the product that the Schell Brothers delivered to us in the construction of our dream home!\u00a0 Thank you!<\/p>\n

Here’s what I heard from Sharon and Brian:<\/h3>\n

We stumbled across VHC community quite by accident as we had been looking at resale homes nearby when we saw the Schell Brothers sign at the end of the road.\u00a0\u00a0We\u00a0had decided some time ago upon the Lewes\/Rehoboth Beach area as the place we wanted to retire and had settled on Schell Brothers as the builder if we bought new.\u00a0 We liked the elevations, finishes and the quality of construction.\u00a0 The value we received at VHC was better than any\u00a0of their other communities in our estimation and we were fortunate to find a very nice wooded lot,\u00a0so it made the decision all the easier for us.
\nOur home is in the construction stage at this moment and we’ve had the opportunity to be in the area at the early stages to see it go up.\u00a0 We’re still very impressed and now very excited to see the progress.\u00a0 We brag to all our friends who can stand to listen to us drone on about how happy we are about our new home and the Schell\u00a0atmosphere.\u00a0 Seriously, what\u00a0other construction manager hugs his customers other than Johnny?<\/p>\n

Jim and Eileen provided their feedback in the form of a list:<\/h3>\n
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  • quiet, waterside, private community<\/li>\n
  • wonderful builder; friendly, helpful employees\u2014feels like a family<\/li>\n
  • energy-efficient, \u2018sexy-looking\u2019 homes<\/li>\n
  • open floor plans\/lots of windows<\/li>\n
  • located near but not ON busy roads; no thru traffic<\/li>\n
  • constructed without artificial delays<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Joyce and Steve had this to say:<\/h3>\n

    Steve and I looked at lots of houses and builders in the area over the course of 2 1\/2 years.\u00a0 We had looked at the Mariner model first at another Schell subdivision.\u00a0 We fell in love with it but knew there wasn’t enough land with the houses there.\u00a0 We started looking at lots of houses both online and in person in the area.\u00a0 We have another house that we knew we were going to down size from and wanted to be near the water-too much land and too big of a house at our other place.\u00a0 We are getting close to retirement and wanted to make a gradual transition.\u00a0 We kept going back to see the Mariner online and then discovered the Mulberry.\u00a0 We wanted to see it in person.\u00a0 By the time we met you and discovered the Villages of Herring Creek, we knew we wanted a Schell Brothers home.\u00a0 The quality was not anywhere else.\u00a0 We had eliminated all of the other builders in our search but we had the decision to make whether we wanted to build a Mulberry home or a Mariner home.\u00a0 Once we realized we could have a half acre lot, along with a lot that could have a basement and a 3 car garage, we knew we had to build the Mariner here.\u00a0 Now that our home is completed we just love it!
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    Scott, Colleen and Family<\/p><\/div>
    \nWe have met a lot of really nice people and we are gradually making the Villages of Herring Creek our home.\u00a0 Schell Brothers’ family of wonderful people have become our family too and everyone we have met have just been fantastic to work with.\u00a0 Our home here\u00a0is almost exactly like a drawing I sketched, when I was ten years old as my future “dream Home”.\u00a0 We are very happy here and expect this to be our dream home for the rest of our lives.\u00a0 Thanks so much.<\/p>\n

    Scott and Colleen summed things up with my favorite quote of all:<\/h3>\n

    We bought there because Sean loves your accent!\u00a0 (Sean is one of their three children.)\u00a0 I always knew I liked Sean.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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