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the orland park prairie | October 6, 2016 | 37<br />
Looking to Build and Move into Your New Home This Year?<br />
It’s Possible at Prairie Trails in Manhattan!<br />
Distinctive Home Builders provides homeowners the<br />
highest quality home on the Market from the low $200s<br />
with zero punch list items in 90 days<br />
Distinctive Home Builders<br />
continues to add high quality<br />
homes to the Manhattan<br />
landscape at Prairie Trails; its<br />
latest new home community,<br />
located within the highlyregarded<br />
Lincoln-Way School<br />
District. Many families are<br />
happy to call Prairie Trails<br />
home and are pleased that<br />
Distinctive is able to deliver<br />
a new home with zero punch<br />
list items in 90 days. Before<br />
closing, each home undergoes<br />
an industry-leading checklist<br />
that ensures each home measures<br />
up to the firm’s high<br />
quality standards.<br />
“Actually our last average<br />
was 81 working days from excavation<br />
to receiving a home<br />
occupancy permit - without<br />
sacrificing quality,” said<br />
Bryan Nooner, president of<br />
Distinctive Home Builders.<br />
Recently closed Prairie Trails Arbor Model<br />
Recently closed Prairie Trails Ashley Model<br />
cording to Nooner.<br />
“When we opened Prairie<br />
Trails we wanted to provide<br />
the best new home value for<br />
the dollar and we feel with<br />
offering Premium Standard<br />
Features that we do just that.<br />
So why wait? This is truly the<br />
best time to build your dream<br />
home!”<br />
Distinctive offers custom<br />
maple kitchen cabinets featuring<br />
solid wood construction<br />
(no particle board), have solid<br />
wood drawers with dove tail<br />
joints, which is very rare in the<br />
marketplace. “When you buy<br />
a new home from Distinctive,<br />
you truly are receiving custom<br />
made cabinets in every home<br />
we sell no matter what the<br />
price range,” noted Nooner.<br />
Nooner added that all<br />
homes are highly energy efficient.<br />
Every home built will<br />
have upgraded wall and ceiling<br />
insulation values with<br />
energy efficient windows and<br />
high efficiency furnaces. Before<br />
homeowners move into<br />
their new home, Distinctive<br />
Home Builders conducts a<br />
blower door test that pressurizes<br />
the home to ensure that<br />
each home passes a set of very<br />
“Everyone at the company<br />
works extremely hard to continually<br />
achieve this delivery<br />
goal for our homeowners. Our<br />
three decades building homes<br />
provides this efficient construction<br />
system. Many of our<br />
skilled craftsmen have been<br />
working with our company<br />
for over 20 years. We also<br />
take pride on having excellent<br />
communicators throughout<br />
our organization. This translates<br />
into a positive buying<br />
and building experience for<br />
our homeowners and one of<br />
the highest referral rates in<br />
the industry for Distinctive.”<br />
In all, buyers can select<br />
from 13 ranch, split-level and<br />
six two-story single-family<br />
home styles; each offering<br />
three to eight different exterior<br />
elevations. The three- to<br />
four-bedroom homes feature<br />
two to two-and-one-half<br />
baths, two- to three-car garages<br />
and a family room, all<br />
in approximately 1,600 to<br />
over 3,000 square feet of living<br />
space. Basements are included<br />
in most models as well.<br />
Distinctive also encourages<br />
customization to make your<br />
new home truly personalized<br />
to suit your lifestyle.<br />
Oversize home sites; brick<br />
exteriors on all four sides of<br />
the first floor; custom maple<br />
cabinets; ceramic tile or hardwood<br />
floors in the kitchen,<br />
baths and foyer; genuine<br />
wood trim and doors; granite<br />
countertops and concrete<br />
driveways can all be yours at<br />
Prairie Trails. All home sites<br />
at Prairie Trails can accommodate<br />
a three-car garage; a<br />
very important amenity to the<br />
Manhattan homebuyer, acstringent<br />
Energy Efficiency<br />
guidelines.<br />
The available models that<br />
home shoppers can walk<br />
through can vary. Typically<br />
a wide variety of homes are<br />
available to tour that include<br />
ranch and two-story homes.<br />
As of this writing, an Arbor<br />
and Ashley; both ranches, and<br />
a FoxGrove, Prairie and PrairieView<br />
models are available<br />
to tour.<br />
Distinctive is also offering<br />
a brand new home, the Stonegrove,<br />
a 3,000 square foot<br />
open concept home with a<br />
split foyer entry, formal living<br />
and dining rooms, a two-story<br />
great room, four bedrooms<br />
and an upstairs laundry room.<br />
The Stonegrove will be available<br />
for walk through in late<br />
September.<br />
Prairie Trails is also a beautiful<br />
place to live featuring a<br />
20-acre lake on site, as well<br />
as direct access to the 22-mile<br />
Wauponsee Glacial Prairie<br />
Path that borders the community<br />
and meanders through<br />
many neighboring communities<br />
and links to many other<br />
popular trails. The Manhattan<br />
Metra station is also nearby.<br />
Besides Prairie Trails, Distinctive<br />
Home Builders has<br />
built hundreds of homes<br />
throughout Manhattan in the<br />
Butternut Ridge and Leighlinbridge<br />
developments, as well<br />
as thousands in the Will and<br />
south Cook county areas over<br />
the past 30 years.<br />
Visit the on-site sales information<br />
center for unadvertised<br />
specials and view the numerous<br />
styles of homes being<br />
offered and the available lots.<br />
Call (708) 737-9142 for more<br />
information or visit us online<br />
at www.distinctivehomebuilders.com.<br />
The Prairie Trails<br />
new home information center<br />
is located three miles south of<br />
Laraway Rd. on Rt. 52. The<br />
address is 16233 Pinto Lane,<br />
Manhattan, IL, 60422. Open<br />
Daily 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.<br />
Closed Wednesday and Thursday<br />
and always available by<br />
appointment. Specials, prices,<br />
specifications, standard features,<br />
model offerings, build<br />
times and lot availability are<br />
subject to change without notice.<br />
Please contact a Distinctive<br />
representative for current<br />
pricing and complete details.