Asheville Green Real Estate
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Want to be a Realtor?
The way real estate has been throughout the country the last couple of years, probably the last thing a person would want to do is be a real estate broker. But, maybe not. I can’t think of too many occupations that are like real estate. Depending on how you do it, who you work with [...]
I-40 Rock Slide Route Alternatives to Asheville
Wow! It’s a good thing it happened in the middle of the night - but still, a couple of cars were damaged and people injured, but not too seriously. It could have been so much worse. Route I-40 winds through some beautiful mountain country. Well, early Sunday morning one of those mountainsides broke loose and [...]
How do we know if we can have solar panels or not?
I recently received an email from another realtor asking about how to know if a home could have solar panels on it or not. The agent said the house was built in 2008. What would you answer? Well, the answer to that question depends on a lot of things. When it was built probably has nothing [...]
Asheville Playback Theatre will Dance with Sustainability Oct 24
On October 24th at 8PM, Asheville Playback Theatre will present a special performance titled “Stories of our Dance with Sustainability”. Audience members will be invited to tell true stories from their lives, and the troupe will create spontaneous theatre from these stories. Location: AB-Tech Ferguson Auditorium, Asheville, NC. Price: Suggested donation of $10, $5 for [...]
Asheville named one of top ten affordable places to retire
U.S. News and World Report has just named Asheville, NC as one of “America’s Best Affordable Places to Retire.” It mentions how laid-back life is in Asheville. It also says life here is “easy on the wallet” - even if home prices aren’t the cheapest. Compared to many cities the size of Asheville, the homes [...]
Mars Hill College is doing a major solar project
Mars Hill College is one of the colleges in the Asheville, NC area. So, it isn’t too surprising that they are serious about being green. The Asheville-based solar company FLS is installing 75 solar panels that are expected to heat 3,000 gallons of water a day. This will save the college up to 28 percent [...]
Tom Miceli?s electric motorcycle
Wow, do an Internet search on Tom Miceli and you’ll com up with a ton of sites telling about his senior project at Appalacian State University. He thought about designing an electric car - in one semester! But, he decided there really wasn’t time, so he settled for a motorcycle! From the ground up, he created the [...]
Affordable, efficient, beautiful Byrd Road Townhomes near Asheville! Don?t miss out!
I’ve been watching these beautiful townhomes for a long time. They were first offered at $450,000 and now they are $189,000! They were going to be certified HealthyBuilt homes, but I see they aren’t making that claim anymore. The shells were built with excellent craftsmanship using SIPS, the structural insulated panels being used in a [...]
September 2009 Green Real Estate Market Report
Time to see what’s happening in the green real estate market in Buncombe County again. The top table is the real estate data I collected in June, which I’m using to compare today’s data. The Buncombe County Green RE MarketA report by Patreecia Spaulding © 2009 Comparison of residential, condos, townhomes, and preconstruction homes in Buncombe County ? [...]
Indoor Air Alert - in Asheville and Everywhere
According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Americans spend up to 90% of their time indoors. I?ll bet it?s more than that for a lot of people. Because of that, indoor air needs to be free of allergens and irritants, especially for people with asthma, but also for everyone. Asthma is a very serious, sometimes life-threatening, [...]
