Meet Carol – a single mom and soon-to-be homeowner thanks to Coldwell Banker Sea Coast Realty, Cape Fear Habitat for Humanity, lots of volunteers, and her own hard work.

When she’s not at her full-time healthcare job, you can find Carol earning 250 hours of “Sweat Equity” by working on other Habitat for Humanity homes. “She is a kind, dependable, hard-working lady who truly embodies the Habitat spirit,” said Jane Roberson, Director of Family Services with Cape Fear Habitat for Humanity.

Construction of Carol’s new Corbett Street home is scheduled to begin September 25, 2010. The home is sponsored by Coldwell Banker Sea Coast Realty and will be dedicated as the “Barbara Birkenheuer House” in honor of the Retired Executive Director of Cape Fear Habitat for Humanity. By sponsoring a Habitat for Humanity home, Coldwell Banker Sea Coast Realty will provide $60,000 in financial support and volunteer labor each week of the home build.

Sea Coast Realty president Tim Milam pledged Coldwell Banker Sea Coast Realty’s sponsorship of this home at Cape Fear Habitat for Humanity’s 9th Annual Golden Hammer Pledge Breakfast in May 2010. The breakfast marked Executive Director Barbara Birkenheuer’s retirement from Cape Fear Habitat for Humanity after ten years of service. In honor of her leadership, Milam announced that the Habitat home Sea Coast Realty builds will be dedicated as the “Barbara Birkenheuer House.”

Cape Fear Habitat for Humanity helps families work toward the purchase of a home. Habitat constructs quality homes at a significantly lower cost than government or for-profit organizations. That allows it to provide no-interest, 30-year mortgages to qualified families. To help its families succeed, Habitat offers credit counseling, mentoring, and education programs.

Sea Coast Realty has sponsored three other Habitat homes since it began its involvement with Cape Fear Habitat for Humanity in 1997. Sales associates and staff from Sea Coast Realty’s Leland office also helped with construction of a Habitat home in Navassa in January 2010. Russ May, a sales associate from Coldwell Banker Sea Coast Realty’s Wilmington, N.C. office, is president of the Cape Fear Habitat for Humanity Board of Directors.

“While sponsoring three homes in the Wilmington area, we have learned how valuable homeownership is to those who thought they would never own a home,” said Milam. “I cannot think of a more worthy housing organization.”

Cape Fear Habitat for Humanity is one of 76 Habitat for Humanity affiliates in North Carolina and is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization. For more information about Cape Fear Habitat for Humanity, please visit capefearhabitat.org.

We are gathering donations for the building of Carol's Habitat for Humanity home. If you would like to donate, please make your check payable to Cape Fear Habitat for Humanity and mail to:

Coldwell Banker Sea Coast Realty
1001 Military Cutoff Road, Suite 101
Wilmington, NC 28405

or drop it by the Coldwell Banker Sea Coast Realty office across from the Main St. entrance to Mayfaire and let the staff know it's for Habitat for Humanity.

Thank you for all your support!

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