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Selling Green: Marketing the Sustainable Home
The Appraisal Institute, a professional association in Chicago, offers a Residential Green and Energy Efficient Addendum that sellers can use to document green features and improvements ... know about ...
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Are green building attributes properly valued?
Increasing use of these fields by Realtors will assist appraisal values for green homes. Appraisers can also use the Appraisal Institute’s Residential ... solar and other green improvements you made v...
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Buying? Selling? Don't undervalue the home
Detective work may pay off If you're selling or refinancing ... president-elect of the Appraisal Institute. 4. Point out your home's best features An appraiser who is under time pressure can't be coun...
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Which home renovations are worth the cost? Fewer than you think
"Cost does not usually equal value…," said Jim Murrett, the president of the Appraisal Institute ... observers said, paying for renovations, even if a homeowner does not recover the full cost, can sti...
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What’s Dragging Down the Value of Your Home?
Lance Coyle, president of the Appraisal Institute and an appraiser in Dallas, says human error can ... off a home for more than it's worth. "Buyers and sellers of homes are pretty astute as to what th...
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10 Ways to Go Green and Save Green
How can we live lightly on the Earth and save money at the same time? Staff members at the Worldwatch Institute, a global environmental organization, share ideas on how to GO GREEN and SAVE GREEN at h...
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Bernie Sanders’s 2020 policy agenda: Medicare for All; action on climate change; $15 an hour minimum wage
will run for president proposing to enact a “Medicare-for-all” health-care system, stave off catastrophic climate change through a “Green New Deal” and other ... paid family and medical leave; gender ...
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Hedge Fund Founder Jeff Tannenbaum's Next Act Will Be Green
Here I can do ... the U.S. off foreign oil. “I didn’t understand why we weren’t financing energy improvements,” he says. Seven years later, he hosted a gathering for candidate Barack Obama’s energy ad...
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Inside Wisconsin’s Disastrous $4.5 Billion Deal With Foxconn
Blue-collar jobs were coming home, starting with the Mount Pleasant ... “There’s no way this will ever pay itself off,” says Tim Bartik, a senior economist at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment ...
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Bernie Sanders to run for president on Medicare for all, climate change and $15 minimum wage
will run for president proposing to enact a “Medicare for All” health care system, stave off catastrophic climate change through a “Green New Deal” and other ... paid family and medical leave; gender ...
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Avoid 4 common remodeling mistakes
You can ... home's value at zillow.com.) 4. Counting on a big pay-back for going green Greater energy efficiency alone rarely justifies a pricey project. Take windows. Window companies may tell you th...
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