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August 2008 - Posts

Thursday, August 21, 2008 8:47 AM

WINNING! Save $, Improve Health, Increase Your Home Value, Support Our Environment

Green Built Homes-Making Efficient Decisions Builders opt from a variety of green features. Rating systems are based on the number of features. Certain features are deemed more important/effective than others. These choices can be made by homeowners who
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 8:06 AM

Green Savvy Appraisers

Be sure that your lender has identified an appraiser who understands that energy efficiency improvements create a "front-end cost" that should be reflected as added value. An article written in the Appraisal Journal stated that home value increases
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 6:44 AM

Energy Efficient Loans

This is a win/win. Improve your home, lower operating expenses, possibly get tax credits and rebates, and increase the value of your home. With Energy Efficient Mortgages all of this is possible. RESNET is a resource of residential energy resources. Armed
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 6:29 PM

Shades of Green

When an industry experiences a shift, business opportunities result. In the case of the Green Revolution, an entire industry of products and services is developing. There are also those opportunists who will jump on the bandwagon without true values to
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Sunday, August 03, 2008 5:53 PM

LEED me to answers for Green Living

L eadership in E nergy and E nvironmental D esign is a rating system that promotes the design and construction of green homes. LEED offers a measure of green building features. In Austin, credits are given for building green. Outside Austin, in Travis
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