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Silvercrest offers you the most complete and fully
prepared community possible, taking all the questions out of your purchase
decision and minimizing the time and cost to complete your mountain home.
Here’s the difference in a nutshell: most developments sell plots of
unimproved land that require thousands of dollars and months of work before
you can even think about building your dream home. At Silvercrest, we offer
finished homesites, not raw land. Our lots are builder-ready, with
graded house pads, cleared views, gravel drives, pre-engineered septic
systems, underground electricity, piped well water, and paved roads – all at
no extra cost to you.
In short, all the prep work is done; as soon as you
purchase your home site, you are ready to call your builder and start
planning your layout. And our amenities don’t stop at your property line;
you will also enjoy wide roads, decorative fencing, and three private parks
complete with stunning views, spring-fed ponds and beautiful waterfalls.
Plus, our 2+ acre homesites are reasonably priced, we have a proven track
record as developers, and Silvercrest offers some of the most beautiful land
you’ll find anywhere. Together, this unique combination of features makes up
what we call the Silvercrest Advantage.
| State
Road Frontage |
There is no substitute for great access. And there
is no better access than off a well-maintained, paved state road
like the one Silvercrest sits on. Many developments can't offer that. You drive on a private
(often gravel) road with
a shared right-of-way that usually winds past numerous homes that
share the road. For people who purchase property in such
subdivisions, the drive home will be longer, often riskier (because
the right-of-way-road is typically quite narrow), and also more
expensive as the cost to maintain the road will be partially borne
by the homeowners. If you have to wind around to reach a
development, ask your realtor about the frontage road and who owns
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| Large Level House Pads
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Each home site is carefully positioned to provide the
best combination of view, shade, and privacy, with careful consideration
given to the location of nearby home sites. Once the site is chosen, it is
cleared, leveled, and seeded with grass. The typical house site measures 60 feet deep
by 100 feet long – far bigger than most houses, and large enough to give you an
excellent feel for how a house will sit on the site and how it will feel to
live there. Preparing all the house sites in advance not only takes the
uncertainty out of what your home site will be like, it also eliminates the
danger that your future neighbors will put their house right in your
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| Gravel
Drives |
As part of improving our home sites, we carefully grade
and gravel the driveways, installing culverts and other erosion-control
measures as needed. This not only saves you the time and cost of building
your own driveway, it also protects the roads from the disruption that
occurs as individual owners cut into those roads to install their driveways.
And by doing all the driveways ourselves, we can make sure that each of them
meets our high standards for width, grade, smoothness and surfacing.
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| Cleared
Views |
All of our lots have lovely views, and many of them
offer truly spectacular long-range vistas. At Silvercrest, you don’t have to
imagine what these views will look like once the trees have been cleared
because we’ve already done that for you. Once again, this saves you the time
and cost to have this clearing done yourself. More importantly, it takes the
risk out of buying a home site at Silvercrest, because you know exactly what
you are getting before you make the decision to purchase. It also spares you
those awkward conversations with your neighbors when you discover that some
of the trees that are blocking your view happen to lie on their property!
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| Groomed
Lots |
In addition to providing level house pads, gravel
drives, and cleared views, we put the finishing touch on each lot by
carefully removing dead trees, clearing underbrush, and hauling off down
wood. This might seem like a small advantage until you discover how much it
costs to have two to three acres groomed by hand. And it assures you of a
home site you can be proud of from the moment you buy it.
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| Pre-Engineered Septic Fields |
As you may already know, one of the unique aspects of
living in a mountain community is not having a city sewer system to connect
to. Instead, each home owner is required to install a septic system to
dispose of waste water in a sanitary, environmentally friendly manner.
People who sell lots are required by law to show proof that each lot can
support a septic systems, but that’s not much of a guarantee. For example,
what will you do if the septic system has to go in the only level area that
could provide a house site? Or the septic area might lie above the house
site, requiring you to go to the added expense of adding a pump to the
system. At Silvercrest, we take all the uncertainty out by having the
septic systems pre-engineered. The systems are
pre-approved by the Department of Health for construction, which means you
don’t have to go through the process of upgrading an initial permit to get
approval to start building your home – a process which currently takes three
to four months. |
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Underground Power
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Like all quality developments, Silvercrest provides
underground power to each home site. This is now a common feature of new
developments, but it’s still one you should insist on – there’s no point in
buying a fabulous view site, only to have it obscured by telephone poles and
lines. You might also look at the locations of the transformer boxes, as you
will be responsible for running power from the assigned box to your house
site. Because we lay out all of the house pads and driveways in advance, we
are able to situate all the transformers as close as possible to the house
sites, avoiding long runs and steep slopes to save you money when it comes
time to build. |
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| Community Water |
If underground power is common, community water is
extremely rare. Which means that with most developments, you have a major
concern ahead of you: When it comes time to drill a well, will you hit
water? If so, how deep will you have to go? Well drillers in the area are
currently charging about $11.00 a foot per well, so a 500-foot well will cost at
least $6,000 just for the hole, with the finished job – including the pump
and pressure tank – running as much as $10,000. At Silvercrest, we
have taken all of this cost and uncertainty out of the picture by
drilling a series of shared wells, each of which will serve five to
six homes. We’ve even installed
the piping to bring the water right to your site; all you have to do is
connect up. There is no connection fee for this service; all you pay is your
pro rata portion of the cost of running the pump – typically less than $5 a
month. |
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| Wide
Roads |
Our efforts to provide you with a beautiful community
don’t stop at the edges of your property. Before you even see your future
home site, you’ll notice the quality of our roads. All the roads in
Silvercrest are gentle, smooth, and wide. The standard for our roads is 20
feet in width with a 16-foot driving surface, allowing two cars to pass
without having to pull over on the edge. Compare this to the 8- to 10-foot
roads found in most developments, which require careful and sometimes
nerve-wracking negotiation whenever two cars meet, and you’ll see the
Silvercrest advantage at work. The extra width of our roads is not only more
convenient, it also provides you with an extra measure of safety and
security when driving in a mountain community. |
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| Paved Roads |
The roads in Silvercrest are groomed and graveled to a
high standard, and will be paved later this year at the developer’s expense, with no
additional charge to the new owners. |
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Road-Side Fencing |
An additional touch that is unique to Silvercrest is
the installation of road-side fencing throughout the community. Although our
roads are wide enough to reassure even the most cautious driver, there is an
extra level of security in having a nice, solid fence on the outsides of the
curves. Our
fencing is made out of solid oak, which we milled on site from oak trees we
felled in opening up the land. We will add the additional fencing after the
roads are paved later this year. |
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| Parks
and Ponds |
Last, but most definitely not least, are the parks at
Silvercrest. Rather than try to squeeze in as many home sites as possible,
we reserved three areas totaling more than 2.5 acres as private parks to
serve the community. The first park lies at the entrance, and consists of
two ponds with a connecting waterfall. The second park, which lies at the
upper edge of the meadow where the open land turns to forest, contains two
more ponds joined by a 2 large waterfalls cascading through several ponds. The third
park, located on the summit, offers stunning views to the west, south,
and southeast. In addition to providing a spectacular setting for picnics
and get-togethers, this park ensures that everyone in the Silvercrest
community – and not just the owners of the most expensive lots – will have
the opportunity to enjoy the best views of the mountains. |
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Hard Costs and Impressive Savings
By providing you with prepared home sites rather than
raw land, we save you anywhere from $15,000 to $35,000, as shown in the
following table. There is quite a range in these figures because they depend
on many factors, such as how difficult your land is to clear, or whether you
decide to drill your own well rather than tap the shared well provided. When
you start to build your home, these are costs that would otherwise come
right out of your pocket, so you should deduct them from the price of our
lots when comparing them to those of other developments. And even if you
never build at Silvercrest, all of these extras will increase the value of
your lot for resale.
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Cost-Saving Features |
Potential Savings
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Paved Roads |
$3,000 |
$4,000 |
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Level House Pads |
$2,000 |
$5,000 |
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Gravel Drives |
$1,000 |
$1,500 |
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Cleared Views |
$1,500 |
$2,500 |
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Groomed Lots |
$1,000 |
$2,500 |
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Pre-Engineered Septic Fields |
$1,000 |
$2,000 |
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Community Water* |
$2,500 |
$12,000 |
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Paved Roads |
$3,000 |
$5,500 |
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TOTAL |
$15,000.00 |
$35,000.00 |
*Range shows access fee to community water to
cost of drilling your own well
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