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Written by Business Journal staff

Wednesday, 15 September 2010 10:59

The latest building permit report by Construction Monitor shows that single-family home building in the Central San Joaquin Valley crossed the $300 million mark by Sept. 9.The weekly publication says this year in the region, 1,693 single-family housing permits were granted with a value of $303,992,369. Centex Homes remained the lead builder with 132 homes being erected this year at a value of $22,718,469.K. Hovnanian Homes and Wathen-Castanos Inc. each had 117 homes being erected this year, the former with a value of $19,241,323 and the latter with a value of $18,075,020. Commercial construction was up only slightly from the previous week, the report said, with a year-to-date project value of $230,805,920.

At MonsterHousePlans.com, be believe that the best is yet to come.  All we need to do is stop reading the headlines about doom and gloom and focus of those things that are positive in all of our lives.  This is still a great country filled with great people that are capable of amazing things.  We will pull ourselves out of this like we have in the past.

Talk in the home builder and developer trenches going into this past weekend waxed academic, focusing on an analysis that flashes harsh light on the reality of a rebound. Then, lo, authors of said analysis, Steven Gjerstad and Vernon Smith of Chapman University (Orange, Calif.), show up with an op-ed piece in the Saturday Wall Street Journal. Briefly, they say, recoveries just don’t get going unless housing gets going first. Likely take-away? Policy makers won’t be able to resist more plans to fix housing. Read more…

MonsterHouseplans.com, a Planworks, LLC company and a leading supplier of stock house plans online, announced today that the company’s house plan collection now exceeds 20,000 premium plans. The milestone was reached with the recent addition of over 3,000 new house plans and includes designs from several top architects and home designers in North America. Achieving this milestone represents the fast growth the company continues to experience.

“We are very excited to now offer our customers over 20,000 high quality home plans,” said Jeff Spring, Founder and President of Planworks. “We look forward to building upon the momentum created through the active support of our designer community, and maintaining a focus on our mission of establishing ourselves as the leading destination site for smart owner-builders and professional home builders.”

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New construction of U.S. homes and permits for future building likely rose in September, supported by an improvement in sales and declining stocks of unsold properties, according to a Reuters survey. Read the entire article at http://tinyurl.com/ygh6o3l

Search from over 19,000 home plans at Monster House Plans. Our Monster Search allows you to select from over 70 features to narrow your search for your perfect House Plans

Here is one of our newest designs. (Click image to view)

MonsterHousePlans now has over 19,000 house plans  to choose from. Try out our MonsterSearch to select from over 70 design features to narrow your search for a floor plan that will work perfectly for you!

I recently read the following excerpt from Reuters and www.positiveeconomicnews.com ” The U.S. economy appears to have stabilized and may not need all the stimulus the central bank had planned to offer, Richmond Federal Reserve Bank President Jeffrey Lacker said on Thursday.

“The economy appears to have leveled out and I believe we can look forward to better times ahead,” Lacker told a business group.”

There is still a lot of pain out there, but I think our darkest days are behind us. We at  MonsterHousePlans are optomistic about the future.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Sales of newly built U.S. single-family homes in October rose more than expected to their highest level in a year, data showed on Wednesday, pointing to a stabilizing housing market after a three-year slump.

The Commerce Department said sales jumped 6.2 percent to a 430,000 annual pace, the highest since September last year, from an upwardly revised 405,000 in September.

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One of the most frequent inquiries we get in our sales of house plans is ‘do the plans include electrical’. The answer to that is yes, almost always. Yes because most designers include location of lights, plugs and switches according to codes in effect at the time the plan was drawn. We qualify this with ‘almost always’ because we have some designers who design for up-scale builders and their contractors don’t want the standard electrical stuff on the plans.

In this day and age, most people want to plan where they want switches, outlets, ceiling fans, specialty lighting, etc. Electricians prefer to locate outlets and switches after consulting with their customer and don’t want to have to scratch off the generic stuff. Electrical panels are conveniently located near where the service comes to the house.

If you live in a home built prior to 1990, have you ever said to yourself “I wonder why this builder didn’t allow for extra outlets here in the kitchen”. Or, if you have limited mobility, wonder why the switches and plugs aren’t placed more conveniently on the walls. Or, decided to put in a ceiling fan and had to go through the hassle of pulling electric to the ceiling? The reason for this is because tract homes allowed for only what was required by code at the time the home plans were created.

Monsterhouseplans offers over 18,000 exciting floor plans that are, in most cases, ready to build and can also be modified to fit your exact requirements.

This plan is a daylight basement, but not a walk-out basement.

This design is a daylight AND walk-out basement.

What is the difference between a daylight basement and a walk-out basement?

House Plans foundations go by many names. In the case of the daylight or walk-out basements, the difference is simply whether or not you are able to exit the basement to the outside or not.

Here is a great example of a home plan suited for a corner lot.

Just what constitutes home plans that work well with corner lots? Actually, most homes are suited for corner lots, but not everyone wants their dream home’s primary focus from the front to be a garage. That is why on MonsterHousePlans you will find a wide selection of house plans that have side entry garages. House plans designed with side-entry garages can make a home look much more inviting because the designer can jazz-up the exterior wall of the garage with windows, brick, stone, bump-outs, interesting roof lines, etc., so that the front of the home isn’t ‘all garage door’.  We also has an abundance of floor plans with rear garages that are side-entry. Remember, all you have to do is go to the MonsterHousePlans site and click the tab for the Monster Search and check the box under Lot Characteristics that will find all home plans suited for a corner lot.