Tuesday, August 9, 2011

My 1981 Mortgage Payment Tables: They Help Explain Why Now May Be the Opportunity of a Lifetime for Homebuyers

If you’ve read my previous blog postings at http://seawrighthomes.blogspot.com/ you’d have noticed that a number of them deal with the subject of home “value,” and how it is the product of much more than a home’s “initial purchase cost.” A high performance home, though costing initially more than its opposite (one of low-performance), typically will prove to be the best “value” because the high performance home will produce the lowest “total cost of ownership” over the planned period of ownership.

Monday, August 8, 2011

A Double-digit Rate of Return in This Economic Climate?

Are you so financially secure that you can’t be bothered by A NO RISK, DOUBLE-DIGIT, GUARANTEED rate of return? If your answer is “yes,” congratulations! You are part of the “lucky gene pool.” If not, and you live in a home built prior to 1990 and have not commissioned an Energy Audit of your home, then what are you thinking!?