Proud to Launch New Web Video Series for Ottawa Home Buyers

Posted by admin | August 20th, 2010
Buying a new home, Corvinelli Homes, ENERGY STAR certified homes, Energy-efficient homes, New Home Alert, ottawa home buyers, Ottawa new homes, ottawa real estate, Reality Homes, Web Video Series | No Comments »

Hi!  Gen Tremblay here, President of New Home Alert.  I’m really excited to share with you our very first pilot episode of ‘New Home Ed’ - launched today!  Ed is New Home Alert’s newest personality, with a mandate to find local experts to educate Ottawa home buyers. The web video series focuses on what comes before, during and after the purchase of a new home.   Ok, so why am I so excited, you might ask, when everybody else and his dog are creating videos and posting them on YouTube?

If everybody else and there dog are posting videos on YouTube, they’re also watching them.  Over 1,000,000,000 videos are downloaded everyday on the web.  When you combine a camera and an expert, you can get pretty interesting results! We believe that seeing is believing…so we’re bringing you current, engaging, entertaining and educational topics in the form of video.    The series is far from being TV material (but kudos to our videographer Chris from Reality Homes for producing quality HD episodes).   While fully researched prior to shooting, each episode is unscripted, exclusively local, and brings a human elemant to perhaps dry subjects.   It’s real!

Episode 1:  Buying an Energy-Efficient Home

The first ‘New Home Ed’ episode is about buying an energy-efficient home. Expert John Corvinelli of Corvinelli Homes takes us through an energy-efficient home, describing the important features and showing us what to look for. He’s excited to be able to share his knowledge and passion with future home buyers. He says ”energy-efficient homes and ‘green’ homes are just buzz words. My goal is to make sure home buyers don’t just use the words, but know exactly what they mean so they make informed decisions when buying a home.”

John was the perfect candidate to shoot our first episode, being so experienced and well-versed in the subject.  He’s an honest man who truly cares. We hope this is what you will appreciate from all of our episodes.

Enjoy the first one!

Russell, Ontario – Home of the beautiful Milan

Posted by admin | May 6th, 2010
Corvinelli Homes, John Corvinelli, Milan model Home, New Homes Ottawa, Ottawa Home Builder, Russell ON, Solidex Place | 2 Comments »

As I (Gen Tremblay), sit down with long-time home builder John Corvinelli and his sales representative Tanya at a local diner in Russell, Ontario, I realize how very familiar everyone and everything seems around me. Why do I feel so at home in this place? Why do all of these smiley faces look familiar? As I listen to John and Tanya describe their daily lives in this very quaint village, I realize that the people of Russell, including John and Tanya, have everything to do with that ‘homey’ feeling.

Driving just 30 minutes east of Ottawa to get to Russell, I appreciate this time to unwind and relax before meeting with Corvinelli Homes. So what takes me there? The beautiful Milan home model in the residential community of Solidex Place. Chris Dunn of Reality Homes and I are there to shoot a video tour of this beautiful 1,700 sqft bungalow. John gives us a personal tour of the home, and describes his home with such pride, as if he had nailed every single nail himself. And then just like a magician pulls a trick from his hat, he starts to talk passionately about the energy-efficient features in all of his homes and the awards he has won for building green homes. Now he’s talkin’, so much so that this deserves its own blog posting. Stay tuned…

I’ve always been attracted to bungalows, but The Milan is a winner for me. I’ll let you see for yourself. Enjoy the video!