Each year, the sales camp has a special guest speaker at the beginning of the day. How lucky were we to hear the Baltimore Raven’s coach, John Harbaugh, present to us?! Coach Harbaugh shared his philosphies on working hard, being passionate and fighting for what you want in life. He was contagious with his excitement, his pride for his team and his casual and warm personality.

Another enjoyable, educational sales camp and Kaine Homes is looking forward to the next one!

The beginning our of new year saw numbers a bit better than the end of 2011, so take a moment to read the below:
• The number of homes sold is at its lowest in the past year
• The average sales price increased from December but is still one of the lower figures we’ve seen in the past year
• Seller contributions actually dropped below $5,000 last month and is exactly $1.00 less than it was back in June 2011.

Maple Ridge is a beautiful community for the active adult in Anne Arundel County. These attached villas provide single-family living without all the yard maintenance. The first floor master bedrooms allow for easy living plus two bedrooms and a loft on the second floor give you plenty of room to spread out. Both floor plans allow for dual master suites or second floor master suites and all homes include a 2-car garage. The community offers three swimming pools, club house, fitness center, nature hiking and biking trails and playgrounds, making it ideal for someone looking to stay active or settle down and retire. In an Active Adult community, at least one permanent resident must be 55 years of age and no permanent residents under the age of 19 years of age are allowed to live in the home. We have purchased the final building in this established community and will finish the remaining seven homes.

Located just outside the Baltimore Beltway is Tameron Woods. We will be offering several new floor plans for Kaine Homes as well as some of your favorite Kaine plans. All of the homes offered in this community include four bedrooms and two and a half baths, 2-car garages, a stone water-table on the front. This community was well planned with wide streets, open spaces, and wooded back drops. Minutes from the beltway, shopping, and restaurants. We only have eight homesites remaining in this established community.

Want more information? Browse our website and chat with us or contact our models. Laura will be representing our two new locations and comes with great experience and an even better personality-be sure to stop in one of the communities and meet her!

Curious who the recipients are?

Charles William Mister “Charlie” “Chuck”
Charlie has been enlisted in the U.S. Army for 6 years as a Combat Engineer. His 1st tour was to Iraq as a Combat Engineer (2008 – 2009) and his 2nd tour is to Afghanistan, where he currently is and serving as a Combat Engineer. Charlie’s home base station is located in Hawaii. When he returns from his current tour and his re-enlistment begins he will be stationed in Atlanta, GA. Charlie earned his Sapper Tap in 2010. The Sapper Leader Course trains selected combat engineer unit leaders in leadership skills, combat engineer and infantry battle drills, and the specialized engineer and infantry techniques required to perform as members of a Sapper Battalion. The course is also designed to build cohesion and esprit de corps by training soldiers in troop leading procedures, demolitions (conventional and expedient), mountaineering operations, aerial operations, airborne operations, foreign weapons, land navigation, waterborne operations and contingency threat. The course culminates in an intense field training exercise that reinforces the use of the battle drills and specialized engineer techniques learned throughout the course. Charlie’s hometown is Calvert County, Maryland. He is the son of John and Christine Mister and the brother to Amanda Pellettiere, Shelby and Jennifer Mister. He is also recently engaged to Sandra Hutchings, whom he met while in Hawaii. The two are to be married in May 2012.

Captain Samuel Teague
Sam attend Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio and was a member of their Army ROTC program. He graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Nursing and commissioned in May 2008 as a Second Lieutenant in the Army. Beginning in August 2008, Sam was stationed at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. While at Walter Reed, Sam worked as a Registered Nurse on a medical surgical floor where he eventually became Assistant Head Nurse of his floor. Sam was selected to serve on the committee to facilitate the closing of Walter Reed and the merging of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and the opening of the new Army hospital located on Fort Belvior in Alexandria, Virginia. During Sam’s final evaluation at Walter Reed, Sam was selected as the #1 lieutenant out of 62 other lieutenants working in the hospital. Once Walter Reed closed, Sam moved to Fort Belvior and began working in the Same Day Surgical Unit. Shortly after, Sam was promoted to Captain and left for his deployment to Afghanistan on October 15, 2011. Sam is currently serving in the Intensive Care Unit at Camp Dwyer in Helmand, Afghanistan. He should be home sometime in May 2012.

We look forward to Charlie and Sam receiving their gifts and most importantly, thanks to ALL the service men and women for their sacrifices!

Brooke said it best, we really appreciate the relationships we have with our subcontractors and we couldn’t do what we do without them.

“I wanted to send you this message about our experience with your company over the past few months. Instead of just telling you that our entire home building experience from beginning to end was a complete pleasure, I want to tell you exactly why so I hope you have a few moments to spare…

- Bobbi was extremely helpful from day one. She was able to provide us first hand knowledge of the neighborhood being that she lives and works in College Station. Although we may have bombarded her with questions at times, she was very responsive and happy to help every single time. She was very knowledgeable about all of the processes and details we would face while building a home with your company and helped us make some important decisions.

- Shannon is very detail oriented and excellent at what she does for your company. She clearly had plenty of experience in home design to make recommendations on things Sam and I never would have considered. We were very pleased that Shannon did not push us to choose options we werent interested in and provided honest feedback on things that we may or may not want to include in our budget. I know that I personally threw a few wrenches into Shannon’s duties by requesting last minute changes to our kitchen layout and the stone on the front of our house, but she promptly made the changes we requested without any issues. Shannon helped us to take the standard Garfield model and really make it our own unique home.

- Jim Trotter was fantastic to work with as well. He clearly uses his years of experience to his advantage and knows how to keep the customer properly updated and informed throughout the building process. Jim obviously wanted to make sure we were happy with every aspect of the home. We were unhappy with the initial grading of our lot and Jim haulted construction upon our request in order to meet with us and explain exactly how the lot was going to turn out at the end of construction. Jim is a man of his word and we are now very pleased with our lot, just as he promised. We were impressed with how clean that homesite was kept during construction and loved that we were able to have access to our home throughout the entire process in order to see what was happening. Most impressive – Jim met all of the dates he promised to us and delivered our complete home right on schedule.

Every other employee that we ever emailed or briefly dealt with also provided excellent service. All of the subcontractors including Vintage Security, TMS, DesignTech, etc were very easy to work with and did a great job. Bruce Rider and George Mason mortgage were perfect and we were very happy with their service.

We have heard the horror stories about other builders and new construction always taking way too long past the promised due date, shabby work, and poor communication. We did not experience any of those problems with your company and would like to sincerely thank you for paying such close attention to the customers wants and needs.

We are VERY proud of our first home and will recommend your company to friends, family, and co-workers any chance that arises.”

Kyle and Sam, congratulations again on your new home and we wish you both nothing but the best!

Christine, Shannon, Tiffani, Melissa and Bobbi walked the Zooma 10k race, which is 6.4 miles, through beautiful downtown Annapolis. The course began and ended at the Naval Academy Stadium. Even better, the ladies did it in under two hours!

Chef Luis prepared two AMAZING soups for us and taught us several kitchen techniques, for example the proper way to chop an onion and how to prepare garnishes for the soups.

Check out these soup recipes. Not only did we have the pleasure of eating them, they were also served at Project Echo’s Empty Bowl Supper last month. Try them out and let us know what you think!

On March 13, 2010, Michael’s truck was hit by an IED. It has been a long road, but Michael has recovered and is now grateful to celebrate his “Alive Day,” the day he almost lost his life but won the battle. He currently works with Wounded Warrior Project in DC, assisting soldiers returning home with injuries.

Thank you Mike, along with all the other soldiers, for all that you do for our country!