TruVest Breathes New Life Into Bayard Park Affordable Homes Redevelopment
Imagine Bayard Park as a new neighborhood with affordable renovated and new homes.
Press Conference: December 17, 2020, 9 AM @ 520?Bayard Park?Drive?Evansville, IN 47713
See the redevelopment here >>> Bayard Park
Bayard Park in Evansville is among many communities in Southern Indiana that have been plagued with poor housing projects and unreliable contractors that make it difficult for residents to build and maintain a higher quality of life.
TruVest has been collaborating with the Evansville community over the past 3 years. Making an impact by building sustainable homes and setting a benchmark for removing obstacles that prohibit homeownership.
Our next big project - revitalizing Bayard Park Drive with TruHome, The City of Evansville, through The Department of Metropolitan Development, The Affordable Housing Trust Fund, and the Evansville Promise Zone that will improve the neighborhood along with the quality of life for each family living on the block.
After a decade of negative overall demographic trends, Evansville's population and the household base has grown since 2010 and are projected to remain positive through 2025.
Evansville, a strong community built on culture and history, will see a population and household increase of nearly 1% over the next 5 years.
The Plan - In Phases
In order to deliver the greatest impact possible, they're grouping their development into four phases.
TruVest already broke ground in Evansville, enacting their four-phase plan to rehabilitate homes and breath new life into the Bayard Park Drive neighborhood.
Phase 1:
Currently active, phase one involves the rehabilitation of four existing homes in the Bayard Park neighborhood. It's TruVest mission to keep the existing charm of original homes and spaces while updating for structural security and beautiful design.
Phase 2:
Phase 2 will consist of four new homes built from the ground up on existing land. Homebuyers will have the options of 3 bedroom/2 bath and 2 bedroom/1 bath homes.
Phases 3 and 4 will consist of all new built homes.
TruVest is thrilled to be able to support Evansville's growing community from the ground level, building beautiful homes and spaces to last for many generations to come.
"We were living in a rundown house that we were renting and paying $750 per month. Now I own my own TruHome for less than $500 a month, and my kids have their own rooms for the first time."
- Mackenzie P., Homebuyer
This is just the beginning. Bayard Park will serve as a groundwork for what's possible in similar areas locally and across the country that has been plagued by external factors for decades.
Ryan DeMent
TruVest
+1 812-777-5850
ryan@truvest.co
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TruPodcast-Episode 4 Silas Matchem
Hey Tru Team! In this episode of the TruPodcast our guest is Silas Matchem! Silas is the Executive Director of the Evansville Promise Zone. We discuss what and how the Promise Zone impacts its residents and businesses. Silas also discusses different aspects of what the Promise Zone is doing to help during this tough time. If you need to get ahold of Silas he can be reached via e-mail at Silas.Matchem@echohousing.org
Are You Ready to Take Control?
As each one of us navigates this new daily life there is a lot of uncertainty what tomorrow will look like. Please take a moment each day and be thankful for your loved ones! Today, we got some good news that the Senate has passed a $2 Trillion Stimulus Bill. At this time there is very little information out there on how these funds will help small businesses and households. Right now we are on edge and want to know when this will all end.? How do we get through this? We go on the OFFENSE! In a time like this, we all need to ensure our basic needs are covered. How do you get those basics covered??
- Determine what you need to live on a monthly basis
- Rent, mortgage payment
- Utilities
- Food
- Car payment
- Health Care?
- All other bills
- Are you eligible for unemployment benefits?
- If yes, make sure you apply immediately
- If no, are you eligible for other State or Federal assistance
- Contact your Landlord or Mortgage Company
- Ask for a deferment or forbearance for your monthly payment
- Determine what option works best for your situation
- If you need HELP please call us at (812) 777-5850 or email us at Ryan@truvest.co. Free of charge!?
TIP: Deferred/forbear payments-Options
- Deferment- Could be moved to the back of your loan or rental agreement-Extended terms
- Could increase your monthly payment
- Forbearance- You will not have to make payments for a period of time
- Payments can be moved to the back of your loan OR
- The payments will be added to the balance of your mortgage or rent.
- This option could increase your monthly payment
- Contact other creditors
- Ask if they offer deferment/forbearance/hardship programs
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TruPodcast-Chasing Happiness
TruPodcast Episode 1
We are excited to be re-launching TruPodcast. The TruPodcast is going to cover three life topics:
- Chasing Happiness
- Business-Real Estate included of course
- Failure- How it is not a four-letter word, and how we can grow from our failures
In this episode, our guest is Alex Burton the President of the Evansville City Council. We discussed what drives his happiness, and how it took numerous times to be elected to City Council (Persistence), and his passion for Evansville! Hope you enjoy and please subscribe!
Travel Updates, Connections, and Market Insights!
Hey guys, Ryan DeMent from TruVest hope you're having a great day. Third installment of the Vlog. Got Three things to talk about my trip to Indiana last week and the good people that I met, some things that are going on with us and last is a little bit more of a general market overview of what I'm seeing with the tools I'm using.
Some of the things that, that I'm coming across and how we're going to look at them. Because as much as we don't want to say it, there is a market correction coming. It's out there, it's brewing, we're looking at it, but we've got to do something with it. So I'm going to talk a little bit about it, put it out there up front, talk about what we're doing. So let's get started. So last week I was in Indiana, had a great time. I met some great people. I got to meet Stephen Ralph, the director of antipoverty initiatives at the Evansville Christian Life Center. They've got a great educational program that we're going to jump on board with and refer potential home buyers to that need some extra help with financial literacy and then also their credit. So I'm really excited about that.
So I'll share a little bit more about that. Met Two individuals that are fed up and ready to be homeowners, and the beautiful thing about it is they're ready to make that leap in themselves, in that change to where they can be able to make a difference in their own life and become a homeowner. They're not looking to rent, they're not looking to hang around, they're looking to be able to push forward. And they finally have hit a point in their life where they said, hey, guess what? I want to make a change and I'm here and it's refreshing
Affordable Housing Project Aims to Revitalize Jacobsville Neighborhood on 44 News
Our affordable housing collaboration officially launched in?Evansville, Indiana?with Mayor Lloyd Winnecke?and?Evansville Promise Zone. We are thrilled to have such amazing coverage by?44News?on how we are making an impact on families quality of life by owning a TruHome.
The Promise Zone and a company called TruVest are partnering to not only create affordable housing in Evansville but also create homeownership opportunities for the people living there.
Instead of knocking down homes, and building new ones, TruVest is renovating blighted homes in the Jacobsville neighborhood. At the same time, those who need affordable housing will have the opportunity to actually own homes instead of renting them.
This partnership will help provide first-time homeowners with the tools they need to keep their credit up, continue to pay mortgage payments and all the other things that go into owning a home.
TruVest co-founder Peter Bordes says, ?We?re going to find a balance between what we renovate, and then what we do helping the land bank taking those empty lots, and then developing new homes on them, but always with the idea that we?re not looking to gentrify neighborhoods, and we?re not looking to make the prices go up. We want to be able to keep them in line with the integrity of the neighborhoods.?
Mackenzee Pagett and her two children will be moving into this first house within the next few weeks. She tells 44News Evansville she?s very excited being a first-time homeowner.
Evansville Promise Zone Partnership Announcement
If you are available please join us on Monday, February 11th at 1:30 pm CST to announce our new affordable housing partnership. The Promise Zone has formed a partnership with TruVest to rehab 25 homes in the Promise Zone in 2019. They are working with local realtors, the Evansville Land Bank and the Promise Zone to locate houses suitable for rehab. People with credit scores of 600 or more will be eligible for mortgages through Old National Bank (other qualifications may apply). If a person does not qualify for a conventional mortgage, TruVest will provide financing based on each individual situation. The press announcement will be at 723 East Oregon Street. Hope to see you there?