Category: Green
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Affordable Solar Systems for your home with No Money Down
You can find affordable solar systems that you can DIY or hire a local pro to install. Solar energy continues to get more and more affordable. Not ready to buy a system? What if we buy it for you and lease it back to you. You can get Solar panels on your roof next month…
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Best DIY Solar Panels
What are the best DIY Solar Panels? If your doing a green real estate project you can either DIY ( Do It Yourself ) or get a professional installer. Solar Panel prices continue to fall and we are always updating the best prices on Solar Panels. You can enter any Solar product in our search…
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Green Real Estate Rebates Increase Returns on Property Investment
Real Estate Investors have many incentives to get rebates and grants from various sources for their green real estate investment projects. A properly executed Green Real Estate Project also increases the ROI on the property itself, through lower energy costs and higher resale and rental rates. Energy Efficiency & Green Real Estate Rebates: The Database…
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Green Home Equity Loans
Green Home Equity Loans With PowerSaver By: Robert Stec Green Homeowners : As a homeowner, how would you like a $25,000 loan for green home improvements? Not just any improvements, mind you, but the truly green kind, designed to minimize use of electricity and save you money. Improvements such as added insulation, sealing of ducts, tighter-fitting…
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High Efficiency Green Rehabs
Go Smart and Go Green – Invest in High-Efficiency Properties by: Robert Stec When we think of “going green,” we automatically think about being kinder to the environment and creating a cleaner, healthier place to live. It’s only after this that we consider the financial benefits. Turning existing real estate into green investment properties results…
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Home Energy Retrofits Green Real Estate
Green Apples to Apples: A Case-by-Case or Model-Based Approach Toward Green Real Estate? By: Luke Bujarski In 2008 the Chicago Climate Action Plan set out an ambitious goal of retrofitting 400,000 residential units by 2020. As the green real estate movement picks up steam, national and local initiatives like Obama’s proposed…
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Green Real Estate Improves Home Values
Countertops or Cost Savings? Banking on Green Real Estate to Improve Existing Home Values By: Luke Bujarski Today’s competitive real estate market is making it extremely difficult for owners to sell their existing properties. One way property owners can set themselves apart in this tough market is through green certification. As the green building movement…
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Flagstaff Green Real Estate Investment -Flagstaff Home Energy Audit
The April 2011 issue of Men’s Journal, magazine listed Flagstaff in its “Best Places to Live 2011.” writing up Flagstaff as on one of the best place to “Go Green.”with a youthful flair” and as an “eco-minded college town”. One way Flagstaff residents should continue to be “going green” is by renovating their existing home…
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Green Real Estate Investment Trusts – Green REITs
REITs to Green Buildings: Leading the way toward a Stronger Commercial Real Estate Market? By: Luke Bujarski Active property investors might want to pay close attention to a renewed interest in “green” real estate investment trusts, also known as REITs. With the recently announced Better Buildings Initiative, President Obama has pledged new tax incentives and…
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Keeping PACE with Revolving Loan Programs in Green Building
By: Luke Bujarski Local governments continue to put public dollars to work saving both the environment and money on property owners’ energy bills. Through creative financing methods known as Property Assessed Clean Energy or PACE programs, communities are opening access to capital for energy audits and property retrofitting of existing buildings. Twenty-three states have adopted…