Twenty years ago, when the majority of our homes here in Dove Valley Ranch were constructed, every neighborhood had at least one model home where the builders’ salespeople were housed  and where they welcomed potential buyers to the community, demonstrated their homes strengths, options and advantages, and did their best to sell available upgrades in their “design center”. 

Included with the paperwork distributed at the Shea, Dietz-Crane, Maracay, Woodside, and Richmond American model home sales centers were price sheets with the various models and their base list prices, the homes’ included features and square footages. 

Among the most informative information they dispensed that is the most relevant to us are the floorplans, which continue to provide a variety of useful functions to us today, even twenty years later. 

Floorplans show a buyer how a house works and whether they would like to view it. Room flow, layout and dimensions are all factors that buyers take into consideration, particularly when purchasing a family home.  

The floorplan also helps a buyer recall the home after they have viewed it. This can be very useful when considering layout changes, like removing a wall, or adding an additional bathroom. 

Perhaps the most important and vital role that a floorplan provides is in a sales tool, improving the connection between buyers and sellers.  Floorplans can make a home seem larger. It is very easy to forget rooms that you saw when viewing the house, or even overlook an entire portion of the house. 

When you sell your house, make sure that you have a floorplan added to your brochure, and that your agent has a downloadable version available on the property portals. It just may be the element that closes the sale of your home. 

Please contact Mike Corcoran if you would like a difficult to find old floorplan of your Dove Valley home at 480-570-0404.