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HBRA NEWS
HOBI Awards
CELEBRATING 25 YEARS
HOBI
AWARDS
HBRA OF CONNECTICUT
HOME BUILDING INDUSTRY AWARDS
The 25th Anniversary of
the HOBI Awards was
a wonderful night of
celebration in the home
building industry. The
HBRA of Fairfield County
is proud of our members who won a total
of 83 HOBI awards for 2018. We wish a big
congratulations to all the winners for their
much deserved success. The 860 guests
in attendance is a testament to the hard
work put in by the HBRA of CT, Joanne
Carroll and the judges who volunteer their
time. We were also thrilled to unveil the
new HOBI logo designed by our Marketing
& Graphics Coordinator, Clare Michalak.
Congratulations to all! If you would like a
copy of the new logo, or photos from the
night, please contact us!
Tarzia Group, Nicola Tarzia
Best Green Energy-Efficient Custom Home
Bluewater Home Builders, Robert Sprouls
Best Custom Home 3,000-4,000 SF
Outstanding Special Purpose Room
Best Spec Home $3-4 Million
Blansfield Builders, Jim Blansfield
Outstanding Custom Home 3,000-4,000 SF
Best Residential Remodel $750,000 -1 Million
East Coast Structures, John Sullivan
Best In Town Custom Home 3,000-4,000 SF
Domus Constructors, Chris Shea
Best Remodeled Kitchen
Fletcher Development, Ryan Fletcher
Best Custom Home 4,000-5,000 SF
J&J Custom Builder, Joe Filanowski
Best Custom Home 5,000-6,000 SF
Best Outdoor Feature
SBP Homes, Doron Sabag
Best Fairfield County Custom Home 6,000-7,000 SF
Best Entry
Best Custom Home 8,000-10,000 SF
Best Custom Home Kitchen
VAS Construction, Vincent Sciaretta
Best Custom Home 7,000-8,000 SF
Vita Design Group, Dave DeNomme
Best Modern Custom Home
10 HBRA of Fairfield County | NOVEMBER 2018
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Best Custom Home Over 15,000 SF
Best Outdoor Living Environment
Best Exterior Feature
Best Interior Feature
Best Accessory Building
Best Marketed Home
Best Special Promotion
Best Builder Website
Redwood Construction, Cassondra Stevenson
Best New Old Custom Home
Olsen Built Homes, Peter Olsen
Best Spec Home $1-2 Million
Michaud Group, Robert Michaud
Best In Town Spec Home
CCO Habitats, David Vynerib
Best Spec Home $2-3 Million
Milton Development, Ashley Shapiro
Outstanding Contemporary Spec Home
Outstanding Outdoor Feature
Riverside Design Build, Marc Vandenhoeck
Best Spec Home $4-5 Million
Outstanding Interior/Exterior Feature
Argus Development, Tim O’Malley
Best Spec Home $5-6 Million
Cole Harris Homes, Paul & Sitta Harris
Best Spec Home Over $7 Million
Best Spec Home Kitchen
Outstanding Spec Home Over $7 Million
Best Amenity
Best In Town Remodel
Best Residential Remodel $1-2 Million
Toll Brothers Inc., Andrew LeGrant. Jason Gottlieb
Best Traditional Community
Best Single Family Home Over $800,000
Best 55+ Community
Best Mid-Priced Townhouse
Silver Heights Development, Seth Greenwald
Best Cluster Community & Best Pocket Community
Best Butler’s Pantry
Love Where You Live, Danielle Bijanada
Best Luxury Townhouse Community
Best Luxury Townhouse
Karp Associates, Arnold Karp
Best Residential Remodel $150,000-250,000
Best New Commercial Building
Community Service Award
Hemingway Construction, Peter Sciaretta
Best Residential Remodel $250,000-500,000
Best Luxury Bath Remodel
Wernert Associates, Max Wernert
Outstanding Contemporary Remodel $250,000- 500,000
Davenport Contracting, Brian P MacDonald
Best Residential Remodel $500,000-750,000
NOVEMBER 2018 | HBRA of Fairfield County 11
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Veterans Forge New Paths with Home Building
Careers
Each year on Veterans Day, we give thoughts and words of appreciation
to the brave men and women who sacrifice so much to defend our
freedom and safety. In the home building industry, rather simply
thanking them, many builders also are hiring veterans.
The industry has long focused on training veterans through the Home
Builders Institute, the nonprofit partner of NAHB. The HBI Military and
Veterans Program operates on a number of U.S. military bases with
training, certification and placement services focused on landing home
building jobs for transitioning military members and veterans.
Skills learned in the military can easily transfer to the home building
industry.
Marci O’Brien, a new home sales specialist in California, served in the
Marine Corps from 1989 to 1994. After her duty was done, she got a real
estate license and began participating in the housing boom in Southern
California during the mid-90s.
“The Marines gave me so much confidence that I just went around
knocking on doors looking for a job,” she said. O’Brien found one pretty
quickly and has been in the industry ever since.
She noted that the Marines’ unofficial slogan “Improvise, Adapt and
Overcome” helped her a great deal in 2008 and 2009 during the housing
collapse. “The ability to confront challenges head-on and the thick skin
I developed were invaluable during that time,” she said.
Looking to join a supportive community, O’Brien became involved in
the Sales & Marketing Council of the BIA of Southern California soon
after starting in the industry, eventually serving on its board.
That sense of belonging and accreditation also rings true for Air Force
veteran Quint Lears, MIRM, who specializes in new home sales in New
Mexico.
“Continuing education and certification play a big role in military
advancement,” he said. “So I continued that pattern in civilian life.”
Lears also became involved with NAHB and his local Las Cruces (N.M.)
HBA early in his career. He won the 2012 Salesperson of the Year at The
Nationals and has recently published a book through Builder Books,
Partnering with Brokers to Win More Sales.
Lears said that his time serving his country gave him the skills and an
appreciation of the home building industry that has propelled his home
sales career. His experiences in the military helped him understand
that the small steps needed to sell a home, like putting up signs, for
instances, were all important in completing the mission.
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Statement from NAHB
Chairman Randy Noel
on 2018 Midterm
Elections
Randy Noel, chairman of the
National Association of Home
Builders (NAHB) and a custom
home builder from LaPlace,
La., today issued the following
statement regarding the 2018
midterm elections:
“With the 2018 midterm elections
behind us, NAHB looks forward to
continue working with lawmakers
on both sides of the political aisle
to keep housing a national priority
and to expand homeownership
and rental housing opportunities
for all Americans. To help achieve
these important goals, Congress
needs to address housing
affordability concerns, ease
regulatory burdens, and expand
job training programs to ensure
an ample supply of well-trained
workers to build the nation’s
homes.”
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Builder Confidence
Drops as Housing
Affordability Issues
Rise
Growing affordability concerns
resulted in builder confidence in
the market for newly-built singlefamily
homes falling eight points
to 60 in November on the National
Association of Home Builders/
Wells Fargo Housing Market Index
(HMI). Despite the sharp drop,
builder sentiment still remains in
positive territory.
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The 2019 Connecticut
legislative session will open
on January 9, 2018. We will
have a new Governor and
a largely new legislature.
Twenty percent of the 151member
House Chamber
are freshmen legislators and
7 of the 25 member Senate
Chamber are freshman.
We must take extra care to
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legislators, especially the
newly elected officials, on
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Please reach out to us if
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Click here to
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Democratic Legislators Will Push Liberal Agenda
Of Paid Leave, Minimum Wage Hike And Pot
After making major gains at the polls, Democratic legislators are reenergized
to push forward a liberal agenda they believe can be enacted
next year under Gov.-elect Ned Lamont.
Democrats are advocating for key bills they are calling the Big Five:
raising the minimum wage, enacting paid family and medical leave,
erecting electronic highway tolls, approving sports betting and legalizing
recreational marijuana.
Three of those items would raise money, and some moderate Democrats
think those increases should be the bulk of the revenue raisers — rather
than hiking a variety of other taxes as the state faces a projected deficit of
$2 billion in the next fiscal year.
Democrats picked up 12 seats in the state House of Representatives
for a 92-59 advantage. They also gained five seats in the state Senate
for a 23-13 margin, breaking an 18-18 tie for the past two years that
allowed Republicans to block plans for tolls, sports betting and legalized
marijuana, as well as increases in taxes and spending.
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What’s the Matter With Connecticut?
Since the era of “The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit,” Connecticut has
played an outsize role in defining the American suburb. High-quality,
low-density living remains one of the state’s chief draws and suburban
voters are one of its most important constituencies. Across the country,
suburban voters fed up with President Trump broke heavily for the
Democrats in the midterms. That happened in Connecticut, too, but it
wasn’t a “change” election in the Nutmeg State. Rather, it was a “more of
the same” election. Democrats retained control of the governorship and
strengthened their position in the state Legislature
Republicans suffered one of their most demoralizing losses in the 26th
state Senate district, in suburban Fairfield County. Twenty-two-year-old
Democrat Will Haskell defeated the incumbent Republican, 68-yearold
Toni Boucher. Ms. Boucher has served in state office for about as
long as Mr. Haskell has been alive. The district, which had been sending
Republicans to Hartford since the 1970s, includes several “Gold Coast”
communities, all or in part, such as Weston, New Canaan and Westport.
Mr. Haskell’s campaign was buoyed by an adulatory profile in the New
York Times and an endorsement by President Obama. Though he had
been considering law school after graduating Georgetown University in
May, Mr. Haskell instead set his sights on state office, inspired, he says, by
a desire to “get involved in the fight against Trump’s agenda.” Ms. Boucher
was assumed to be safe because of her many years of constituent
service and embrace of the classic local brand of Republicanism—social
moderation and fiscal conservatism.
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