Archive for August, 2011
Green Homes More than a Trend
The pulse for green homes has increased dramatically in the last year. From a low whisper to a roaring engine, green is growing, and it’s much more than a trend. With rising energy prices in 2006 to wide spread climate awareness, home buyers are looking to be eco-friendly at home. Green homes are defined as those that have lower than historic levels of environmental impact. Here are some tips on going green.
-Some ways that you can make your home more green: Use building materials from recycled products. Install low-flow shower heads and water saving toilets. Buy lumber that doesn’t come from old-growth timber. Use high-efficiency windows that feature double panes with low-E coatings. Utilize paints and carpets with no or low odor ratings. Recycling building debris.
Real Estate Goes Green: Energy Saving Tips for Homes
If you’re an agent helping a client sell their vacant home or are representing an REO property, one of the primary costs while showing the home is the energy bill. Whether there is people living in the home or not, the power needs to be on in order to properly show the home, so here are a few tips for going green and saving green on your properties’ energy bills.
Close the doors.
Certified Green Homes With Modern Green Technology
Modern Green Technology in Green Home Construction.
Building eco-friendly, green homes with ICF Walls technology and Icynene® insulation is approved by most major building codes in Florida. Energy Efficient (ICF) Insulated Concrete Forms are reinforced pored concrete 4″ Walls with 2.5″ polystyrene insulation inside and outside of the walls with R-47 effective value, which results in up to 70% energy savings on homeowner’s electric bills. Florida Green Home’s exterior walls are withstanding hurricane winds up to 200 mph.
Green (ICF) walls are asthma and allergy free. Air infiltration in ICF walls is drastically reduced, resulting in less pollutants and dust pollen. Insulated Concrete Forms walls do not contain chlorofluorocarbons, hydrochlorofluorocarbons, fiberglass, formaldehyde or asbestos. The homes having ICF walls are virtually have no mold, mildew, termites or insects. They are sound suppressing, dramatically reduce noise from the outside and have up to 4 hours rating of fire resistance which will protect people living inside in case of fire emergency.
Want to Sell Your Home Faster?
There are several ways to sell my house fast. The first way is mark down the original price by at least ten percent. This could be a very dramatic decision because you will be losing money on the home. But if you reduce your price lower than the competitors, then you can get rid of the house much faster. The best thing to do is to make the house look like a bargain. This will make the people crowd in to look at your house. It could even start a bidding war on the home. And always remember that the price that is listed for the house is not necessary the price that the house will sell for.
The second way is to make sure you have an agent who has a lot of experience selling houses. If you want to sell you house quick, it is not a good idea to use someone who has never sold a house or sold only a few houses. Do some research before you pick a certain real estate agent because this could make or break the selling of the house. The real estate agent also has to be willing to look up the prices for all of the houses that are close to you.