January 2020 Reporter

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• Meet Your Members • TAB Model Safety Plan • Dates to Remember 2020

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January 2020

From the President We hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year. Can you believe it’s already 2020? Who would have thought we would have made it this far.

With the New Year many exciting events will be coming your way. Each of our monthly luncheons will feature some of the most high energy speakers. Our Parade of Homes in June will kick off with the Bigger and Better CASINO NIGHT, as well as several surprise items on our agenda.

Our mission at the Home Builders this year is to INCREASE OUR MEMBERSHIP. We would appreciate everyone to bring a friend to each of our luncheons; this will give our new prospective members a little insight into the Home Builders Association.

Then, GET INVOLVED. We value any suggestions and/or input from our members, to make our coveted Association better.

Thanks to all who participate in our Association, with your time, money, and insight.

Welcome New Members!

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Dan Bachman Brad Atkins Barry Gober David Parkey Brent Lundgren Michael Albert

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Alan Hinson Chuck Vergauwen Johnny McClane Dianne Brock Kevin Rhine Julia Griffin Cindy David Curtis Cannedy John Lee Stoiloff

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Classic Builders C.R. Spray Foaming & Roofing Don Hardy Homes FirstCapital Bank of Texas First National Bank Garnel Construction Harmon & Holcomb Homes Marble Palace Morrison Supply Servpro

Gary Broyles Casey Rogers Don Hardy Brent Hillery Wayne Pharries Jose Garcia Eddie Holcomb Francisco Cornejo Hector Torres Aaron Ryan

Calendar of Events January 1st – Happy New Year’s January 9th – General Membership Meeting – 11:30 AM January 14th – Publication & Communication Committee Meeting – 10 AM January 14th – Parade of Homes & Special Events Committee Meeting – 3 PM January 15th – Budget & By-Laws Committee Meeting – 10:30 AM January 15th – Board of Directors Meeting – 11 AM 2

Dates to Remember

January 9th – NTHBA General Membership Meeting – Kemp Center for the Arts January 21st – 23rd NAHB IBS – Las Vegas, Nevada February 6th – General Membership Meeting - CEC Center February 21st – Young Professionals Networking Event - TX Hold Em Tournament March 5th – General Membership Meeting - Kemp Center for the Arts March 25th – 27th TAB’s Winter Meetings, JW Marriott Austin, TX State April 2nd – General Membership Meeting - Kemp Center for the Arts May 7th – General Membership Meeting - Kemp Center for the Arts June 11th – Parade of Homes Kickoff Dinner/Fun Night June 12th, 13th, 14th, 17th, 18th, 19th, Parade of Homes June 18th – 20th, NAHB Spring Leadership Meetings Washington, DC National July 14th – 17th,TAB's Summer Meetings, Gaylord Texan Grapevine, TX State July 15th – 16th, 2020 Sunbelt Builders Show™, Gaylord Texan Grapevine, TX State October 20th – 22nd, 2020 NAHB Fall Leadership Meetings Kansas City, MO National November 11 – 13, 2020 TAB's Fall Meetings, JW Marriott Austin, TX State

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MEET YOUR MEMBERS

Garnel Construc�on, LLC has been building homes in the Wichita Falls and surrounding areas for over 20 years. Our goal is to provide homeowners with the best energy-efficient products. Garnel ENERGY STAR® rated homes offer financial savings and much more!

Garnel Construc�on Company is the answer to your energy efficient dreams!!! We create beau�ful homes with features that help cut cost in owning a home when you need that extra money in your pocket!! All of our homes come with a 210 Homebuyer’s Warranty and we offer the best security/ safety packages you can ask for!

Jose Garcia is a life director for the North Texas Home Builders Associa�on where he currently serves as the NTHBA state director. He con�nues to be ac�vely involved locally and also at the state level by serving on several commi�ees.

Call Jose at 940-781-3038 to get started on your new home!

Brian's Plumbing Inc. is a full service plumbing company that has been serving Wichita Falls and the surrounding area for nearly 30 years. Our primary goal is to exceed our customer's expecta�ons by giving them excep�onal service with licensed professionals who use only the highest quality products and state of the art equipment in the industry.

Founded in 1984 by Brian Walser, Brian's Plumbing started out as a one truck opera�on offering excellent customer service, �mely repairs and a level of quality rarely seen in the service industry. The company has now grown to 12 trucks and s�ll provides the same level of customer sa�sfac�on as in the beginning. Whether it's service, remodeling or new construc�on, we recognize that our customers are the only reason for our existence, so Brian's Plumbing is here to do "whatever it takes" to make you our sa�sfied customer.

At Brian's Plumbing, we employ highly trained and licensed technicians. Most of our technicians have over 20 years’ experience in the plumbing industry. We perform background checks and drug screenings on all technicians and appren�ces, so you can feel safe having them in your home or business. Brian's Plumbing uses the latest in technology for loca�ng slab leaks and diagnosing drain line problems. We exclusively offer Nu Flow's patented technology, a noninvasive procedure that uses epoxy inside a liner to create a protec�ve pipe inside a deteriorated host pipe. We also employ the use of GPS tracking in all vehicles as well as IFleet technolgy to reduce response �me.

Brian Walser, founder and president of Brian's Plumbing Inc., served 8 years on the City of Wichita Falls Plumbing and Mechanical Board for code development. He is currently President of the Red River Valley Chapter of PHCC (PlumbingContinues on pg 5 4 Hea�ng-Cooling Contractors Associa�on), as well as serving on the board for PHCC at the state level. He also served 4

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Brian Walser, founder and president of Brian's Plumbing Inc., served 8 years on the City of Wichita Falls Plumbing and Mechanical Board for code development. He is currently President of the Red River Valley Chapter of PHCC (PlumbingHea�ng-Cooling Contractors Associa�on), as well as serving on the board for PHCC at the state level. He also served 4 years as Board President for Wichita Falls Downtown Development Inc., a non-profit organiza�on for the improvement of downtown. Call Brian’s Plumbing at 940-761-2040.

Founded in 1995, the NORTEX Housing Finance Corpora�on is a Texas non-profit corpora�on formed by coun�es in the NORTEX Regional Planning area, which is authorized by the State of Texas to issue bonds for housing finance.

Single-family mortgage revenue bonds are the most common, which provide down payment assistance or lower than market rate loan programs to low and moderate, first-�me homebuyer families. Other bond programs may include single-family taxable, mul�-family, and essen�al func�on.

NORTEX programs are available to eleven coun�es – Archer, Baylor, Clay, Co�le, Foard, Hardeman, Jack, Montague, Wichita, Wilbarger, and Young. This includes the ci�zens of the City of Wichita Falls and Vernon. These governmental units have no financial liability for the bond programs. The coun�es’ responsibili�es include the confirma�on of Board appointments and the approval of bond issues.

To find out more about or take advantage of the programs offered through the Nortex Housing Financing Corpora�on visit www.NortexHFC.org.

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Another year has gone and here we are in 2020. Who would have believed the �me would have passed so quickly?

Along with the en�re year of 2019, December sped through like a rocket and like every year, was a busy month for Christmas par�es.

December 7th, President Barney Brock, Board Director Cindy David and her husband Kenny and Execu�ve Vice President Teri Gibson had the honor of celebra�ng Christmas with the 363rd Training Squadron. As always it was a blast. Their event planners sure do a great job of coming up with a fantas�c venue, good food, awesome games and super gi�s.

The evening started with a social hour to mix and mingle. During this �me a�endees had the opportunity to put �ckets, they had received when they registered, in various prize buckets. Some of the prizes that could be won were a BBQ Basket with different types of spices, rubs, sauces etc., a robo vacuum with a gi� basket of pampering items, a liquor basket, a decora�ve bucket full of wine, a gi� basket full of gi� cards to businesses in Wichita Falls and a Nintendo game. This was just a handful of prizes that could be won. There were some other major prizes that consisted of a $400.00 gi� card toward a gun and a weekend to Great Wolf Lodge. There were two Angel trees that had envelopes on them and �ckets were drawn for a chance to pick an envelope off the tree that also had a prize in it. Cindy David was lucky enough to have her �cket number drawn and won a Texas Road House gi� card.

The event was held at the MPEC Center with Spectrum catering a delicious meal of Lasagna, Chicken Alfredo, Salad, Green Beans and Garlic Toast. The Christmas décor was awesome!

There was a great turn out of people dressed fes�vely, semi-formal and formal and many pictures were taken. Some were posing in front of the decorated Christmas trees while others were taking selfies at their tables.

Everyone was eager to par�cipate in the team games. Several minute to win it type games were played and it was as much fun to watch as it was to be involved. One game contestants were given a �ssue box that was �ed around their waste with ping pong balls inside. The opening was facing outward and the object was to shake and jump around un�l all their balls had come out.

Another game, teams had to decorate one of their members to be the best wrapped Christmas present. The winner was chosen by the applause of the audience. It was a close compe��on for sure!

Throughout the evening there was prize drawings, dancing while the D.J. played all types of music and games conducted with individuals and groups. There was never a dull moment. It was a very Merry Christmas Party! Thank you 363rd for allowing the North Texas Home Builders Associa�on to be a part of your group!

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On December 10th the NTHBA had their Annual Christmas party. 120 people a�ended the event and began the evening with a social hour feas�ng on shrimp cocktail and mingling.

Around 7 PM President Barney Brock welcomed everyone and thanked them for a�ending. A few announcements were made along with recognizing and thanking the 2019 NTHBA Partners: Gold partners (Guarantee Title Company & Union Square Credit Union), Silver partners (American Na�onal Bank, First Na�onal Bank, On Site Solu�ons and Texoma Community Credit Union). Special guest were also recognized, Lt. Colonel Olson and his wife Chris�na and Mike White and his wife Nelva of the 363rd Training Squadron and Wichita Falls Fire Chief Ken Prillaman and his wife Deb. Eddie Holcomb gave the invoca�on and then a dinner of ribeye steaks, loaded mashed potatoes, salad and cobbler were served around 7:15. A�er guest had the opportunity to eat, President Barney Brock asked Fire Chief Prillaman to come up and accept the many toys donated by members who a�ended the Christmas Party. Chief Prillaman spoke to the crowd and expressed the apprecia�on of the en�re Wichita Falls Fire Department for the generosity of the NTHBA members and their con�nued support of the WFFD Opera�on Santa. He men�oned he had not been in Wichita Falls but a couple of months but was very moved by how compassionate and giving the Wichita Falls Community is. He said without the support of the community, the WFFD would not be able to con�nue Opera�on Santa and help so many have a Christmas who would not have been able to have one.

A�er Chief Prillaman finished, President Barney Brock had the Jason Hollis Band play and guest began to dance.

Periodically throughout the night, Barney would stop the band and drew �ckets for guest to win door prizes. A�er a few �cket were drawn, Barney changed up a li�le and told guest the first one to be able to show him some fes�ve socks would get the door prize. Barney was not disappointed. We had some very fun loving a�endees who were all about the season and Kevin Rhine took the prize. Another item asked for was a red pocket knife, which Jim Smith just happened to have on his key chain, a measuring device that Kaycee Ryan brought to our a�en�on, there is an app for that and a picture of a chicken which could be an actual picture or drawn, at which we did have quite the ar�st in Lindsey Sheppard. Then it was back to the �ckets. A�er all the last batch of door prizes were given away, it was back to the band and the dance floor.

Everyone had a great �me and many members were gracious enough to s�ck around and help clean up. A big thank you to Blake and Chelsie Seyler, Mike & Nelva White, Billy & Robin Brock, Dianne & Barney Brock, Paige Schlumpf, Eddie Holcomb, Jim Gibson and any others that I may have missed that had a hand in helping set up or cleaning up. A big thank you to everyone who a�ended and par�cipated in the Opera�on Santa with their gi�s. A big thank you to those who donated door prizes: Brazos Window & Door, Breegles, Cindy David, Hughes & Sons LLC., Lance Friday Homes, Lowes, Nelva White, Pilgrim Bank, Servpro,

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