Inventory homes offered at both locations. 

            Wouldn’t it be great if before you set one foot into your new home, someone you trust will have thoroughly checked it out for you not once, but more than a dozen times from excavation to chimney top?  And wouldn’t it be great if it didn’t stop there?

            “We’ve been building homes for over 30 years,” said Gene Stumpf, III, president of family-owned Stumpf Homes.  “We’re hands-on and personally involved.”  Gene III, his brother Michael, and dad Gene Jr. are your advocates, down in the excavated footing with a soils engineer, on site ensuring the quality of the building materials before the first sheet of drywall is hung, inspecting every item in your home including framing, floor joists, roof trusses, plumbing, wiring, siding and brick, even directing the grading and sod installation of your yard for proper drainage.

            “Mike (Stumpf) does the final walk-through himself,” Gene Stumpf said, “then there’s a 60-day walk-through with the owner and our construction superintendent and an 11-month walk-through with Mike again.  It’s all about trust and personal service, “ Stumpf said.  “This is not new, and it’s not a reaction to market conditions,” he was quick to add.  “It’s something we’ve always done.”

            Stumpf Homes specializes in uniquely traditional plans packed with standard features.  Nearing closeout are Fairfield Estates on Telegraph Road and Christopher Ridge on Christopher Road and Stumpf is over one-quarter complete at their newest community, Willow Bend, in Swansea, IL.

            “We offer the same personal service and customizing on both sides of the river,” Stumpf noted.  They also offer the same models including the company’s most popular floor plan, the story-and-a-half Oxford.

            “People love this house.  It has five unique second floor plans, three master suite variations and several kitchen designs,” said Stumpf, as he described the versatile Oxford home at Fairfield Estates in south St. Louis County.  Priced from the $380,000’s, the development is just a few homesites away from closing out.  There’s only two inventory homes and one building lot.  “That’s all we have left here,” Stumpf said.  “Our inventory homes have been great sellers.”

            Stumpf has their best-selling Oxford inventory home and a Cheshire two-story at Fairfield Estates.  The "ready-now" Oxford inventory model on Lot 35 is specially priced at $478,900.  The “show stopping” Oxford for sale has four bedrooms, 3 ½ baths and 3,640 square feet of living space.  Design highlights inside include a rear staircase, massive 23’ x 20’ bonus room, great room with granite surround fireplace and a rear window wall consisting of eight large windows,

island kitchen with walk-in pantry and raised panel maple cabinetry, butler’s pantry, deluxe master bath with ceramic tile floor and 15’ x 12’ walk-in closet, popular Jack and Jill bath, extensive hardwood flooring, professional landscaping and a lawn sprinkler system. It boasts a three-car garage elevation dominated by brick and stone, two-story entryway with a huge palladian window and walkout lower level.  The home backs to trees and is one of the most private homes in the subdivision adjoining just one neighbor on one side and common ground on the other.

The Cheshire “ready-now” home can be found on Lot 4 for $479,900.  This popular T-stair two-story has four bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths, nearly 4,000 square feet of living space, framed walkout lower level and an ideal backyard for a built-in pool.  Additional features include a huge 22' x 18' family room with woodburning fireplace, island kitchen with natural granite top, walk-in pantry, raised panel maple cabinetry, butler's pantry with glass grilled wall cabinets, vaulted hearth room, bonus room, master bath with ceramic tile floor, Jack and Jill bath, extensive hardwood flooring, professional landscaping and a lawn sprinkler system.

Only one homesite remains at nearby Christopher Ridge.  For more on Christopher Ridge and Fairfield Estates, call 314-303-9798.

            Illinois homebuyers can enjoy the same Stumpf quality and attention to detail for about $100,000 less (yes, $100,000) in Swansea at the cozy community of Willow Bend.  Priced from the $280,000’s, Willow Bend offers ranch, two-story and 1 ½ story models with three to five bedrooms, up to 3 ½ baths and living space from 2,190 square feet to 4,245 square feet, as well as a standard side-entry two-car or three-car front entry garage.   The Cheshire display, a handsome and stately two-story with four bedrooms and 3 ½ baths, large bonus room and a hearth room, which boosts the square footage to nearly 4,000 is available for sale at $459,000.  When you tour the Cheshire, be sure to visit the Carlton ranch inventory home on Lot 8, a prime cul-de-sac site.  The Carlton, built by Heartland Homes, is a split bedroom plan with 3 bedrooms and 2 ½ baths.  The home is sale priced at $319,000

            For information about Willow Bend call 618-233-9700.  Ask about our special incentives for active and retired military homebuyers.

            To visit Willow Bend take Route 159 to east on Frank Scott Parkway, right on Old Collinsville Road to right on Munie Road.