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Development

100k and 120k House for Sale

March 12, 2011

It’s a bittersweet time for the owners of the 100K House project homes. Both homes are being put back on the market for the first time since they were built as both families move on to the next phase in their journey through life. My wife, Courtney, and I are expecting our second child (Mr. [...]

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Energy Performance Oversight and a Gas Guzzler Tax for Homes?

March 4, 2011

I know I owe everyone a redesign of our Performance Sticker and some talk of the various available home energy use metrics, but that is tall order, and I have been a bit short on time. So, instead I’m going to buy a little more time with a discussion of one of the lesser points that arose [...]

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Postgreen Homes Home Performance Sticker

February 15, 2011

We have talked about simple, mileage-style window stickers for homes before, but for some reason all that talk never led to action. We never actually created one for our own homes. Well, it’s time that oversight was addressed. I put together a draft version of a window sticker based loosely on the specs from the [...]

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Can We Upgrade Rental Grade?

February 10, 2011

Most of us have probably heard the term “rental grade” in reference to the finishes in an apartment or rental house. Finishes referred to in this way are usually chosen largely for low cost and/or high durability. Things like occupant health or design aesthetic tend to be secondary at best in a “rental grade” unit. This marginalization [...]

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Postgreen Rentals and a New Opportunity to Invest

January 31, 2011

Our business model to date has identified itself with home ownership, but we are also big fans of rentals. Rental units are a key part of an urban housing mix providing density, incubation for future homeowners and variety for those who just don’t want to be nailed down. If ownership offers a neighborhood a stable [...]

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Avant Garage Video

January 19, 2011

We have been playing around with some new ways to post video to our MLS listings and thought you might like to see where it led. As most of you know, we are on the verge of building four homes in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia under the moniker Avant Garage. These homes, which will [...]

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Design – Build Cost – Energy Efficiency Infographic

January 12, 2011

I have a topic for discussion that has been brewing in my head for some time. It is illustrated below in an educatedguessographic about the New Construction Home Building in the US. Discuss. Hypothesis: If builders built homes in the “Market Gap” circle, they would sell them. If banks lended to builders that were catering [...]

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Marketing Without Shame

November 16, 2010

Every now and then I like to write a quick post about some of the ways in which we market our homes. I know this kind of article is not for everyone, but I hope at least a few of you like them. Those that don’t are free to sit this one out and wait [...]

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Feel Good Returns: A New Postgreen Long-Term Investment Model

November 5, 2010

If you have any long terms savings or investments including stock, IRAs, annuities, etc., than this post is for you. In fact, if you think you might someday have some sort of long term investment plan than you will probably be interested. Heck, even the broke and opinionated will probably enjoy this discussion, so why [...]

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It’s Not Easy Being Small: Marketing Fewer Square Feet in the Land of More

October 22, 2010

We have talked before about the unreasonable growth in American home sizes even as the average household size continues to decrease. We have also spoken about the need to understand houses based on performance rather than square footage. Often these conversations turn toward educating potential home buyers. Ideas like understandable metrics and car-style performance labeling [...]

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