At Progressive Builders, we know that affordability is important to you and your family, especially these times. We want to show you how choosing to build new with Progressive Builders or even choosing on of our available inventory homes can be the best value for providing a safe place for you and your family to live.

Here are just a few items to consider when choosing to build new with us...
 

•Our homes have rim areas completely sprayed with foam insulation to seal out bugs, other pests.
• Our homes are brand new!
• Our homes have a 90% + furnace for extreme energy efficiency with a two year limited warranty.
• Our homes have all the latest safety equipment including radon system, carbon monoxide detectors, arch fault wiring in bedrooms and smoke detectors that work!
• Our homes are checked on throughout construction daily; not left unattended.
• Our homes are professionally cleaned, free of allergens.
• We use chemical safe pressure treated wood.
• Our homes are built to last and appreciate for years to come maintenance free.
• Our homes are in the hottest new neighborhoods.
• Progressive Builders, Inc. has purchased a selection of foreclosed lots on which to build your new home. A foreclosed lot is land and land doesn’t wear out. Buying reduced priced land is shopping good value unlike buying someone else’s neglected foreclosed home.
• Our new homes, on anyone of our lots, is sure to appreciate in value.
 

• How long has this home been unoccupied?
• Have infestation of mice, bats and insects worked their way in?
• Are there frozen pipes below the concrete unable to be seen? In the walls? Under floors between living areas?
• Is there a mold issue with this home; being that the mechanical ventilation has not been maintained or possibly shut off for a period of time?
• Has the sump basket in the basement flooded and gone unnoticed during long periods of vacancy?
• Has the home been smoked in?
• Has the home been broke into?
• Have there been pets in the home?
• Criminal activities?
• Did the previous owner leave disgruntled and what else did they do to the home before they left?
• Will bill collectors be stopping by?
• Will the furnace/air exchange/mechanical ventilation system last?
• What important code changes have been implemented since this foreclosure was built that might affect your family’s safety? For example, radon equipment, carbon monoxide detectors, arch fault breakers.
• Dust mites or other allergens?
• Is the pressure treated wood older than
3 years and contain arsenic formaldehyde?
Latest pressure treated wood no longer
contain these carcinogens.
• What repairs will the foreclosure need in
 the next one, two, three years and how
much will that cost?
• As the market corrects will this foreclosure appreciate as fast as a new construction
or be falling apart?
• Is the neighborhood full of foreclosures? What types of people are buying the others?
• Is this really a good buy?
• Energy Efficient? Cost to heat? Cool?
• If there is a private well, has it froze up?
• Hail Damage? Roofing issues?
• Most important: Is this home safe to raise my family in?
 

From almost every news outlet to driving through neighborhoods across the Twin Cities, you can't escape from the word: "Foreclosure". While it is simply a fact of life in today's economy, Progressive Builders wants you to stop and think about some important points about foreclosed homes.

While the foreclosure market may look attractive from a price point on the surface, we want to warn you about some important things that you might not be thinking of...