[Greenbuilding] [BULK] Selling a green-built home

[Lawrence Lile]

I ran into the same Neanderthal thinking when I applied for a mortgage
to pay off my construction home.  My Solar house with R-60 roof and 5
acres of woods was compared to a "COMP" tract home on a bulldozed lot,
with a conventional McMansion look and no Green features at all.
Amazing, the tract home was a lot cheaper to build for some reason.
Burned me up.  


Get a referral from these guys:

http://www.uurealty.com/

Unitarian Universalist Realtor network and referral service, nationwide.
They will, generally, have a LOT more awareness of Green, environmental,
and earth-friendly ideas and will also understand how to market the
home.  

Lawrence Lile, PE, LEED AP
Project Solutions Engineering
-----Original Message-----
From: greenbuilding-bounces at listserv.repp.org
[mailto:greenbuilding-bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of Bobbi
Chukran
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 11:16 AM
To: greenbuilding at listserv.repp.org
Subject: [BULK] [Greenbuilding] Selling a green-built home
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Hi all,

A while back I mentioned that we are selling our somewhat green-built 
home here in Leander, TX.  A few of you expressed interest in hearing 
the results.  So far, we're still fixing it up, doing some small 
repairs, repainting, etc.  One thing I'm running into that perhaps 
will be a problem is that agents ONLY want to look at what other 
homes in the area have sold for.  As in, the traditional "let's look 
at the comps and come up with a price per square foot" method.