Nilson Homes would like to congratulate their Sales and Marketing Director on his election to the Board of Directors of the Northern Wasatch Association of Realtors.  Jed Nilson was nominated to run and was then elected by his fellow Realtors to serve a three year term.  As a Director, he will strive to improve the already great NWAOR.

He has been a long time supporter of the Have a Heart Home project and the Community Housing Committee.  He was the Co-Chair of the Community Housing Committee for 2010.  Nilson Homes has built a Have a Heart Home in each of the past three years.  He has played a key role in bringing the Homebuilder’s Association together with the Board of Realtors to continue the legacy of the Have a Heart Home project.  That accomplishment, among others, helped his company earn the prestigious Homebuilder of the Year Award in 2008.

Jed began his career as a Realtor in 1999 as a New Home Sales Representative for Nilson Homes.  Since 2002, he has worked for the company as the Sales and Marketing Director and has helped the company become a prominent builder along the Wasatch Front.  He was designated as a New Home Sales Professional (CSP) in 2004 and is currently a Certified Instructor for the CSP Designation.

In recent months, he has helped launch the Young Professionals Network for the Northern Wasatch Association of Realtors as the Vice Chair for that organization.  He has a longstanding record of volunteering time and effort to the Board of Realtors and to strengthening relationships between the Board and the Homebuilder’s Association.  Jed welcomes the opportunity to represent his fellow Realtors.

Jed’s election to the Board of Directors is attributed to Nilson Homes’ dedication to work with Realtors in the homebuilding process.  Nilson Homes has always been a supporter of the Realtor Community and appreciates all of the Realtors that have trusted us to build homes for their clients over the years.

“From the first time we entered the model home, we were impressed with Nilson Homes. Holly was so excited to help us build a home for our new blended family. We chose to build with Nilson for the following reasons:

Flexibility: Nilson Homes allowed us to build a home around our large family. We choose a floor plan and thentheir architect was able to make changes to allow us 7 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms. We added a HUGE bonus room and deck. We got EXACTLY what we wanted and needed

Price: Nilson Homes builds quality homes for a great price including our finished basement for only $8000. Timeline: Start to finish time was shorter than we expected Location: We love the rural neighborhood of Hooper Landing.

We highly recommend Nilson Homes!!”

Nilson Homes is having an event for your family and friends on Saturday, June 26th at our Cold Springs Village Community in North Ogden, UT.  We are celebrating the fact that every home that Nilson Homes builds is an ENERGY STAR home, which both helps the environment and helps families SAVE LOTS OF MONEY by having lower utility bills.

Join us from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. for this “Green” event.  We will have FREE gardening classes from Jerry Barnett.   Classes will be from 12:00 to 12:45 and again from 1:00 to 1:45.  He will be teaching how to plant a garden in a 4′x4′ Boman Kemp “EasyGardenBox”.  Enter to WIN one of the two garden boxes that we will be giving away during the Bash!  We will be serving FREE burgers and hot dogs.  There will be an inflatable obstacle course and snow cones for the kids.  A LIVE Band, “Big Red Judy” will entertain us with family friendly classic rock tunes.

As you can see, this is going to be a very fun event.  We look forward to having your family and friends join us at The Nilson Homes “Going ‘Green’ Event”!

Nilson Homes is a proud sponsor of the Utah Ice Girls Volleyball Team and would like to congratulate them on their first place win at the Utah Club Regional Competition.  The Utah Ice are now qualified to represent Utah at Nationals in Reno, Nevada at the end of June.  We admire the players and coaches for their hard work and dedication. It has paid off, so keep it up girls!

All of us at Nilson Homes would like to wish them Good Luck at Nationals!  Go Utah ICE!

The Home Buyer Tax Credits have definitely helped numerous families and individuals purchase a Nilson Home over the past six months.  Most people think that if they haven’t put a home under contract already, they have missed out on their opportunity to receive the $8,000 or $6,500 credit.  However, those Tax Credits have been extended for one year for many members of the military, the foreign service and the intelligence community.  If you happen to be a one of those individuals or know someone that is, make sure to read the following article to learn about this extension.  It could mean that you have an additional year to take advantage of the Home Buyer Tax Credits!  http://www.federalhousingtaxcredit.com/service_mem.php

We are pleased to announce that the Nilson Homes’ “Dance Machine” Nathan Johnson is back! He will be at the corner of 4800 South and 3500 West in Roy today, Wednesday, April 28, 2010 to direct traffic to our Mother’s Day/Spring Boutique. Make sure to watch for him and honk as you pass by! We have gotten to know Nathan well and his talents go WELL beyond his sign dancing. We just feel lucky to have him back! We will keep you updated on future appearances so you can drive by and cheer him on.  Check out a video that a random guy took of the Dance Machine and posted to YouTube:

Join us for our 2nd Annual Mother’s Day/Spring Boutique!  There will be FREE Hug Hes Chicken Salad and lots of baked treats.  We will also be giving away $20 of “boutique money” every other hour and there will be other giveaways too.

It will be held at our Hooper Landings Model Home at 5066 West 4825 South, Hooper, UT from 1:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Items that can be purchased include: Usbourne Books, Watches, Whimsy Pix Photography, Baby Accessories, Mother’s Day Cards, Hair Flowers & Bows, Jewelry, Hats, Crafts by Make & Take, Bags & Purses and more!

We look forward to serving you FREE lunch and getting to know our Nilson Homes Friends better, while providing a great one-stop-shop for fun gifts!

Kelly Billings is one of the Sales Representatives that helps people build homes with Nilson Homes.  He has a very unique hobby!  He raises Show Pigs!

He originally got started raising pigs in High School with the FFA Club.  After High School, he didn’t raise pigs again until his kids were old enough to show pigs with the 4H Club in Weber County. His kids only wanted to raise Show Pigs for a couple of years.  During those two years, Kelly found out that he had an eye for what the Judges liked in Show Pigs.  His oldest daughter, with the help of one of his sons, raised a Great Show Pig.  In this short two years, the Billings’ family was able to obtain the Award of Grand Champion Show Pig at the Weber County Fair.  There are families that try for years and never attain this award.

After a 10 year gap, Kelly decided to get back into raising Show Pigs.  However, now he breeds and raises Show Pigs for the 4H and FFA Clubs.  Last year he sold 8 Show Pigs.  This year he teamed up with a partner and they have already sold close to 300 pigs  this year.  His deadline to order this year is March 30^th.  He has been getting  calls from Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Oregon, Idaho and Utah.  Kelly has a blogsite:  www.utahshowpig.blogspot.com

Amongst all of Kelly’s activities of raising pigs and helping people buy homes from Nilson Homes, he is also having Nilson Homes start a new home for himself and his family!  We are very excited to build his new dream home!

Nilson Homes recently held our annual “Corporate Meeting”.  We got everyone together to discuss the successes and failures of the previous year and to plan for the year to come.  This year was an especially good meeting because there is such an excitement for what is ahea

d of us over the next year.  We also feel very happy that we were able to have such a successful previous year, despite the challenges of our economy.

We first heard from our Sales and Marketing Director, Jed Nilson.  He spoke about the plans to make Nilson Homes a more personalized company when it comes to marketing.  Instead of representing our company with high priced ads and paid celebrities, Nilson Homes will interact with the public through the voice of our homeowners.  We plan on getting even more testimonials from our homeowners and posting them on various websites so that potential buyers can hear what our homeowners have to say about our homes and the experience of having us build for them.

We then heard from our VP, David Lowry.  He explained the challenges that exist in the world of construction financing.  He has prepared a very calculated plan to deal with these challenges by continuing great relationships with Banks, utilizing our current assets to obtain financing and also obtaining new resources for private financing for developments and spec/model homes.  We feel very prepared to take on any new obstacles that the lending world might put before us.

Our Production Director, Kirt Merrill then demonstrated to us the differences in how we used to build homes vs. the way we currently build and will continue to build in the future.  As is the case with all good companies, Nilson Homes strives to improve our homes and our service on a regular basis.  We have accomplished numerous advances over the past year.  Amongst many things, we have significantly reduced the price of our homes, we have increased the speed of construction to where we can build a home in 90 days and we have increased customer satisfaction by improving the process of drafting plans and selecting colors and options.

The meeting was finalized by the Owner/President of Nilson Homes, Bruce Nilson.  He laid out the vision of the future of Nilson Homes.  We will continue to improve on living up to our mission statement, “Our mission is to build quality, custom new homes in a timely manner while providing exceptional customer service with a personal touch.”  That means that we will focus more and more on the homeowner and improving their experience in building their dream home.  We will also strive to provide the best energy efficient homes to help families enjoy their new home on a smaller budget.  We will also strive to provide the very best in customer service so that we continue build homes for the friends and families of our current homeowners.

Even though there are many challenges ahead of us, this meeting reinforced to all of us that we are in a wonderful position to continue to provide quality homes to families and individuals across the Wasatch Front and in Evanston, WY.  We look forward to doing this and great appreciate all those that choose Nilson Homes to build their new home.

Everyone at Nilson Homes would like to congratulate a member of our sale’s team, Shannon, on her new baby boy! Aiden Randall Rodriquez was born on Saturday, January 30^th. At 5 lbs and 13 oz, he was born a month early and was hooked up to machines to help him breathe.  Shannon and her husband are hoping to bring baby Aiden home from the hospital today. We wish her and her family the best of luck and hope she enjoys her time with her beautiful baby boy!