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Sources and credits
Where every word and image came from, and what this rebuild left out.
This is an independent rebuild of the Home Buyers Marketing site. The consumer site at homebuyersmarketing.com is gone — it now redirects to a parked domain — but the Internet Archive kept its pages, its stylesheet and its images, so this one is closer to a restoration than most.
Provenance
Where each part came from
- The Home Buyers Scouting Report® description — the archived site’s footer, reproduced word for word: a free online home finding service provided by Home Buyers Marketing II, Inc. and its brokers as part of ordinary brokerage services.
- The phone, email and addresses — (952) 831-1919 and info@hbm1.com from the 2011 site’s header and contact page; the Columbia, SC office from LinkedIn; the Minneapolis corporate office from the 2017 site and LinkedIn.
- Every testimonial — the archived testimonial pages for loan officers, agents, lender managers and homebuyers, trimmed but not rewritten. Names are initials, exactly as published.
- “LENDING & REAL ESTATE, a natural fit™” and the four pillars — the archived 2017 corporate home page.
- The family of companies, the mission and the privacy promise — the Nexgen HBM LinkedIn page.
- HomeScout®, Sold Home Alert®, the 4 million homebuyers, the 5–15% and 11% figures — Mortgage Professional America, 21 June 2018, quoting the company’s business development manager.
- The palette and the imagery — the site’s own site.css: plum #624d74 header, gold #EADCAE sidebar, grey #d9d7da page, plus the recovered logo, header band and the four audience images.
What was lost, and what was left out
Three honest notes
- The client portal and the forms. The original had a client login and newsletter sign-up; both are gone, and the contact form here is a replica.
- The testimonial portraits. The original paired its initialled quotes with stock photographs — the faces do not match the names. This rebuild keeps the quotes and drops the faces rather than repeat that.
- The current status. The corporate domain now serves a parked page and the consumer domain redirects to it. Nothing here claims the service is still trading.
Photography
Credits and design
- homes.jpg — Carondelet Street, New Orleans, by Infrogmation of New Orleans, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
- Everything else — the company’s own files: the red HBM2 logo, the plum header band, and the four audience images from the original site.
The layout is this rebuild’s; the palette, logo, band and section images are the company’s. Headings are set in Georgia (the original had no display face) and body text in the original’s Verdana/Arial stack.
Independent site
Built from Home Buyers Marketing II’s published material. Not affiliated with Home Buyers Marketing II, Inc., Nexgen HBM, or Home Buyers Marketing, Inc.