By: James Quinn

On July 1st 1947 William Levitt broke ground on the first house in Levittown. After the war most builders built four homes a year.  William Levitt intended to finish thirty to forty houses a day. He was the right man for the right time.

What Henry Ford was to the automobile, William Levitt was to the housing market. Each house had two bedrooms, measured 750 square feet and sat on 1/7 of an acre. They had no garage, no basement and an unfinished second floor. The first year the houses sold for $7,900 and the Levitt’s made a profit of $1,000 on each. Levittown was a family operation. William Levitt, the salesman his brother Alfred designed the housed and Abe their father a self appointed suburban philosopher. They all believed they were on a noble crusade and were helping people realize the American Dream. Levittown homes were the first houses with fully outfitted kitchens.  It was a radical and expensive idea but a marketing winner because young families buying their first house would have little money left over. By 1968 the Levitt’s had built over 140,000 houses around the world. Today it is impossible to find a Levittown house in its original form. The houses now resell for $150,000 to $250,000.

Sixty-one years later we are once again at a point in American history when a change is demanded, we are at a crossroad. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are losing their homes, the mortgage industry is tighter than a snare drum and the government is trying to slow the sliding economy to no avail.

There are sixty-five million Americans that want suitable housing but cannot fine homes designed for their specific needs and wants. Twenty-five million are successful, professional singles and growing; live in either apartments, condos, with their parents or single family homes. Forty million and growing empty-nesters have no choices, no options some are moving back to the cities regretfully.

Custom Free Homes designs homes for the sixty-five million, homes to meet their wants and needs. Custom Free Homes are recreating the American dream with a radical marketing program and lots of benefits for our clients.

Custom free homes are providing a forum for young architects to display their work to the general public and receive scholarship funds for their winning designs.

We are at the crossroads with the twenty-five million singles earning from $75,000 and up who want homes designed for their lifestyle. Forty million empty-nesters live in suburban homes that are losing equity daily trapped with high maintenance an out of control economy and increasing taxes. Custom Free Homes designs homes for empty-nesters that are priced so they can successfully make the transition without losing all their equity.

Custom Free Homes are re-inventing the American Dream. Affordable housing, 50% buy back plans after five years of residence and more. Custom Free Homes is poised to take its place in the American housing history!

For more information or to schedule a consultation, please contact James Quinn at info@customfreehomes.com or visit www.customfreehomes.com. Custom Free Homes is located at 16 Commercial Plaza, Suite #111, Elkton, MD 21921.