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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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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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Postgreen Investor Proposal: Skinny Project

June 2, 2009

We just sent out our first Postgreen Investor Proposal since our call for qualified investors, and we think it’s a good one. The proposal gives project details, rates of return and basic information regarding the structure of the investment. Those interested after a review of the proposal will then spend a few minutes on the [...]

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Invest! – Postgreen’s Residential Project Investment Program

February 18, 2009

As of today we are officially building four homes. The first two (the 100k and 120k) many of you have been following for a long time now. We will be finishing them up in the next few weeks. The second two, known as the Philadelphia Passive Project, we just recently introduced. Of those four homes, [...]

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How To Buy A House – Seller’s Assist

September 19, 2008

Now that we have our first home posted for sale, we wanted to put some instructional or educational posts on the basics of buying a house. We figure that many people buying 100K homes in the next few years will most likely be first time homebuyers, so this seems all the more important. Thankfully my [...]

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Draw Schedule for the 100K House Project

September 9, 2008

Since we just closed on the land and the construction loan, why not get into a bit of the details of the loan from Independent Mortgage Company. This may be dull for most of you, but I know some of our readers are very interested in the financing aspects of a new development project and [...]

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Results of Investment Poll

August 18, 2008

A couple weeks ago we created a poll to gauge investor interest in future 100K House projects. I promised I would publish the results after we received some feedback so here is what we have to date: Twenty three people have responded to the survey so far. You don’t have to invest to take the [...]

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New Bank for the 100K House Project

August 5, 2008

If you’ve been following the blog for a while you know that finding financing has been one of the toughest items to accomplish on this project. We have now gone through three different lenders and finally found a company willing to commit to the project in our fourth lender visited – Independent Mortgage Company. This [...]

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Investors for Future 100K Homes?

July 30, 2008

We have been getting a lot of inquiries for investment opportunities over the past few months. We originally shied away from getting investors involved in the original project due to the affordable nature and lower than normal or expected return. Moving forward, we will most likely will need to involve other investors in order to [...]

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First Postgreen Sale and General Updates

July 17, 2008

I’ve been having a hard time finding the time to post this week as I’ve had to actually act like a developer. With ground-breaking on the 100K project approaching and a second project beginning, I’ve had a lot of development duties to tend to. The first bit of good news is that we officially sold [...]

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