October, 2012 // Posts published in October, 2012
10/30/12: I Bought A House, Now What Step #4
Step #1-Learn about your neighborhood Step #2-Protect your investment Step #3-Maintain your house Step #4-… Be fiscally fit and stay on budget. Home ownership is so much more than paying the monthly house payment and utilities. Luckily, Habitat Riverside has strong partners like Union Bank to help educate our new home owners. Vicki Gomez and […]
10/27/12: Bank of America Demolishes!
On a cool Saturday morning Bank of America workers showed up at Habitat Riverside’s latest project. They brought a wonderful gift to help out: This $50,000 grant is critical assistance from Bank of America. Habitat Riverside was able to purchase one last foreclosed home with the remaining Neighborhood Stabilization Program funds, but did not have […]
10/27/12: UCR Chapter & ADT Volunteers
A big thank you goes out to the teams from ADT and the UCR Habitat Campus Chapter who worked hard painting the home of Sultan and Muna in the Countrywood Estates Mobile Home Community in Corona. This large group of energetic volunteers came ready to make a difference for this family. Sultan is a senior […]
10/20/12: Kaiser Cares!
After weeks of temperatures reaching into the 90’s and even a couple of days last week hitting the 100 degree mark, who would have guessed that Saturday would bring drizzles and cloudy skies all day? Certainly not the hardy volunteers from Kaiser Permanente who showed up en masse at King Arthur’s Mobile Home Park in […]
10/19/12 Clean Up Crew!
WOW! What a great group of volunteers we had today to help us out with a special project. Habitat Riverside received a donated lot on Pierce St in Riverside that we are not quite ready to build on. Unfortunately, empty lots attract unwanted vegetation, and a few other unwanted things. So we put out a […]
10/16 Post Purchase Workshop-Hands On Maintenance
The unexpected happens when you own a home, and first time home buyers won’t always know what to do when it happens. The dog gnawed off my sprinkler, what do I do? My child accidentally knocked a hole in the wall, how do I fix it? My weeds are out of control! Well as a part […]
10/13/12: Psomas Volunteers
Psomas Engineering pulled together a group of family and friends to join us at Il Sorrento Mobile Home Park in Moreno Valley on Saturday to paint the home of Viola and Judy. The homeowners are both seniors who definitely can’t afford a new paint job (a recent estimate of the cost to paint one of these […]
10/13/12: Groundbreaking at Arapahoe
Habitat for Humanity Riverside, in partnership with the city of Riverside and Wells Fargo, broke ground for an affordable, ENERGYSTAR efficient home on Arapahoe Street in Riverside. Habitat’s Construction Supervisor, Kathy Michalak, will lead an all-woman Wells Fargo volunteer crew from ground breaking to the home’s deidcation in sumer 2013. Wells Fargo volunteers wore their […]
10/6/12: RHS & Ring Container
It always takes a strong group to paint a home with Habitat’s A Brush With Kindness program and it was no different on Saturday October 6th when volunteers from Ring Container once again joined Habitat Riverside, together with the Ramona High School Habitat Campus Chapter, to paint the home of Nick, a disabled veteran, and […]
10/3 Post Purchase Workshop-Protecting Your Investment
As a part of Habitat Riverside’s Post Purchase workshop series I Bought A House, Now What? Habitat families were invited to the second installment “Protecting Your Investment” on October 3rd. David Werner from Gresham Savage Nolan & Tilden educated the group on Wills and property state laws in the case of death. Selvio Martinez from Fair […]
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