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Longmont Economic Development Partnership (EDP) and Cornerstone Home Lending today announced the launch of “Longmont Start to Home”, a unique talent relocation and retention program designed to help employees of Longmont-based employers enjoy a stress-free relocation and home buying experience from start to home.
The innovative new program is available to Longmont-based employers who are investors in Longmont EDP and prospective employers with whom Longmont EDP is working to attract or expand into the community. “Longmont Start to Home” offers comprehensive, best-in-class home buying services from leading industry professionals, simplifies the home purchase and mortgage process for Longmont-based employees or future employees, and significantly reduces relocation costs for both employer and employee. As of now, this program is nationally unique to Longmont and Longmont EDP.
Through Cornerstone Home Lending, “Longmont Start to Home” offers employees of Longmont-based employers a dedicated team focused on serving their home buying needs, whether they are relocating across the country or across town. Depending on the needs of the employee, and contributions by the employer, the program may also provide: reduced costs to employees with discounted home buying, lending, and moving fees; a $2,000 lender-paid credit from Cornerstone; reduced mortgage insurance premiums from Arch MI; exclusive access to HomeScout, a next-generation, immersive real estate search app featuring 100% MLS data; and full marketing support and resources for employers to promote the program internally.
Going forward Longmont EDP and Cornerstone also plan to partner with trusted local service providers to offer discounted services such as landscaping, home improvement, pet care, daycare, plumbing, and many more services for new home buyers taking advantage of the “Start to Home” program.
“With the ‘Longmont Start to Home’ program, we believe we have created a positively different, all-inclusive talent relocation and retention program for Longmont-based employers and their employees,” stated Lonnie Jenkins, Vice President/Regional Market Manager at Cornerstone Home Lending. “While we hope to expand the “Start to Home” program to other communities in the future, we couldn’t be more excited to launch this program in Longmont in partnership with Longmont EDP, supporting their efforts to attract and retain primary employers and the talent they need to thrive in our community.”
Longmont EDP President and CEO, Jessica Erickson, added “One of the focus areas of the Advance Longmont 2.0 economic development strategy is the attraction and retention of talent to meet the needs of Longmont’s primary industry base, and we know that access to home ownership opportunities is critical to our ability to succeed in these efforts.
The partnership with Cornerstone Home Lending and the “Longmont Start to Home” program provides a great opportunity for us to support Longmont-based employers in their efforts to attract and retain quality talent in Longmont. It’s really an additional employee benefit a Longmont-based employer can offer their employees at very little cost to the employer.”
Learn more about the Longmont Star to Home program at https://longmont.relocationportal.com/.
Longmont-based employers interested in learning how they can offer the “Longmont Start to Home” program benefits to their employees should contact Longmont EDP at [email protected] or 303-651-0128.
