NORWAY – Around 50 people gathered Wednesday to celebrate the completion of a new ranch home built by Oxford Hills Technical School students on the Eddie Kahkonen Road.
“This is such an awesome program,” Scott McElravy said to the 19 juniors and seniors in the school’s building construction technology class. “It gives lots of kids such a great opportunity to learn.”
He and Dan Daniels teach the class.
The program, in its 10th year, works with Community Concepts Inc. to provide affordable homes to qualified buyers.
The students finished the 1,100-square-foot, three-bedroom, one-bath ranch on a full foundation in nine months, and have now gone to their next project, a home on a radiant heat slab for an older couple on the Hebron Road in Paris.
Students in the class are Kyle Martin, Allen Young, Randy Cleveland, Justin Moccia, Brad Thayer, Corey Wiles, Phil Denison, Clarke MacDonald, Chris Warren, Mike Tracy, Ashley Hutter, Samantha Adams, Donvan Dow, Justin Robbins, Kyle Keniston, Cooper Eells, Chris Henderson and Kevin Crocker.
The new owners of the home are Michael Davis and Brandi Collins, both 22, and their children Dylan and Jordan Davis. They are closing next week on a conventional mortgage loan of $110,000 to finance the home, which was appraised at $135,000.
“We’ve been renting since we were 16, so we’re really happy about it,” said Collins.
The couple received grant assistance from Community Concepts and worked through Helen McCowen of Homequest, a licensed real estate agency that is a service of Community Concepts. They also saved money by painting the interior themselves.
Serving as construction liaison to the tech school was Rick Bennett, portable homes construction manager for Community Concepts. He said anyone with an income of 80 percent or below the area’s median income is eligible for the program.
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