Top 20 Questions To Ask When Building A New Home – Part II

September 9, 2017 | Suzanne Rainey

What standard features do your homes include? What options and upgrades can I select? This is a open-ended question as there are so many levels of home building, but it has merit at all...

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Top 20 Questions To Ask When Building a New Home – Part I

August 31, 2017 | Suzanne Rainey

How many years have you been in business? Experience tells more than just about any other question that you can ask. It is the foundation for building expertise that should be on display in...

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Hyde Park’s Grandin Road – A storied past with room for a next chapter

August 11, 2017 | Suzanne Rainey

In the mid-eighteenth century, few Cincinnati overlooks commanded attention like Grandin Road in what is now Hyde Park. Names like Longworth, Burnet, Grosbeak, Harrison and of course Grandin once lived here in sprawling estates...

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Building New Classics in Hyde Park

July 20, 2017 | Suzanne Rainey

For over 100 years the homes of Hyde Park, in Cincinnati, Ohio have stood shoulder-to-shoulder on their gaslit streets. Over the years, homes in the community have appreciated quite a bit making it even...

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Introducing Kensington of Mason | New in 2018

June 26, 2017 | Suzanne Rainey

Much thought has gone into Deerfield Township's newest residential community and Classic Living is proud to be a featured custom home builder in it. Fischer Homes has embellished the concept of Kensington Gardens, an...

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Cincinnati home builders – Finding a custom fit for you

October 19, 2015 | Suzanne Rainey

The term “Custom Home Builder”, is one that separates a unique group of builders who go beyond, and sometimes far beyond, the production home building process. This group of builders personalizes the home construction...

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Home Sale Price vs. Homeowner Expectations

October 12, 2015 | Suzanne Rainey

Few events in life match moving into a new home. It’s a new chapter and we all love that. There’s just one thing standing in the way… Your present home. Many homeowners become overwhelmed...

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Living Green + Seeing Green – Cincinnati Tax Abatements for new custom homes

October 6, 2015 | Suzanne Rainey

How the Cincinnati Community Reinvestment Area (CRA) and LEED Certification make it happen. With so many great energy and consumption conservation products available in today’s Cincinnati home construction, everyone agrees that they are a...

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Is a pre-constructed home really a custom built home?

October 1, 2015 | Suzanne Rainey

A custom home is not always one that is built from scratch for a unique buyer. In fact, many new custom homes are built prior to having a buyer. These are called “Market” or…

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From Lebanon to Long Cove – See who owned your Warren County land 160 years ago.

September 22, 2015 | Suzanne Rainey

Now this is an interesting, but offbeat subject for Warren County, Ohio residents. It’s hard to imagine today, that American pioneers once tilled, nurtured and protected the land that we now own. Think of...

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