We have a ten month old masonry CYV 'Woodlawn' model, now called a 'Durham'. When the windows and doors are closed my surround system cannot be heard outside and it can be a very loud system with 4 tower speakers, a sub-woofer and center channel speaker and a 200 watt Sony amp. Our last two electric bills were $92 and $93 and we have our central air on all the time. In fact, if we set it lower than 80 degrees it's too cold inside, we usually have it set on 81 degrees. The masonry CYV's are constructed using forms and the walls are continuous poured concrete, not cider block construction.
We considered both styles, but they had dropped the price on our unit twice. Once when our villa section was down to about ten units and a second time because they had decided to rename all the models and wanted to move the already built units. So after ours was reduced a total of $12,000 it was actually cheaper than the vinyl version. Also, we had been living in a vinyl home in Maryland since 1998 and we had a constant problem with mildew on one side and I had to scrub it with a brush or power wash it every year, so I figured get the stucco if we could afford it.
Ours looks similar to this one, except our shrubs have really grown big and we had the pine straw replaced with copper rocks which I think looks nice with that stucco color. We had a holly tree in front which we have moved to the backyard and replaced by a European Fan Palm.
