Green Real Estate – Did we lose the possibility of energy-efficient homes the last tree?
by - October 20th, 2011Did you know that the recent housing bubble, that almost 20% of all dwellings that are built today. It was probably no better time in American history, and probably not for at least a decade or two, take advantage of energy efficiency by using high-tech materials. Unfortunately, the residential property boom is over. But we can learn from our mistakes in building energy efficient homes?
The answer is yes, but first we need to understand what happened. You see, not all the houses were built without energy-efficient materials or designs, but most of them were because they were catering to first time home buyers, who can ill afford. Which is a shame that these cheap homes that are stored in the materials end up costing them a 50-10 times higher than the energy savings in construction costs.
We had a great opportunity for recent housing boom more energy-efficient homes being built such as mn real-estate, and we will have failed, simply because it might cost $ 500 a better seal the doors, which add $ 1200 a better insulation of the cost, $ 1,500 high-sealing windows and $ 3,000 better windows .
This is a smart thing to do, and ROI (return on investment), the energy is less than 5 years easily. Much faster than the sun, and the like, but we managed to build new buyers wanted the house, which hardly could afford to buy, and even these small increases may cause them not to. It is so short-sided, but it is how things work. Now the houses are already built in, so some things can not be done as cheaply and easily, while others, such as doors and windows, weather stripping, etc. can.
President Obama has made a little money in stimulus package to retrofit millions of homes better sealing tape, but it is unfortunate that we do not believe that everything in advance.
Maybe next time we will be wiser? Think about this.