2008 Markets Stats. Good News Trends...you will find this when you look (through green glasses?) at Green-built homes, Eco-communities, Sustainable Neighborhoods. I'm known for looking at the world of real estate through "green glasses". If you saw how sturdy the trend toward sustainable housing,
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05/31/2008
He was standing at the door when I arrived. His smile was disarming. His eyes twinkled when he spoke. He was in town to teach an RLI Class. I'd heard about him and had chatted before, but I really hadn't had a chance to "sit down" for a talk with this Old-timer. A REALTOR® from " way back" when
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05/29/2008
Green Value, An Independent Research StudySays "Thumbs Up" to Green-builts... If you read my BLOG, you probably already guessed that. Nevertheless, this is exciting news of interest to REALTORS® and our clients. The research corroborates ...independently... Green Value , taking a good solid loo
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05/26/2008
I ‘m wondering if, like me, you are seeing a growing interest in cohousing ? Is this an idea whose day has come? Possibly even a trend-in-the-making? I'm heading out this morning to do some "hands-on" research. I'm going to look at one eco-developer's concept for an ecovillage with cohousing pote
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05/17/2008
Green-Dreaming? I was reading a newsletter from one of our city commissioners here in Asheville today. She seems to be "dreaming green" and her fans say she is a "light in the community" ... From what I know, she challenges Asheville's citizens to apply some creative "human energy" to look at
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05/15/2008
Fenestration. Are you experiencing fenestration in your daily life? You may not know it, but I bet you are, that is unless you live in a yurt above the meadows in Asheville. Or simply have your head in the clouds. Have a clue? Go on, take a guess! WHAT is "fenestration"? I asked my friend th
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05/13/2008
Lot 1 Hickory Nut Forest Gerton, N.C. 28735 is a Special Find! YOU could have been searching for a long time. Then, lucky person that you are, and with just a llittle help from your ECO Certified ® Real Estate Consultant one fine day you discover the perfect place destined to become your UNIQU
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05/13/2008
As I threaded my way over the rocky path to one of the many waterfalls at the eco development our Firm is representing, I wondered... how did these amazing folks (see the developers in photo I took to your left) come up with a sustainable design? How can one create a conservation development i
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05/10/2008
You may have guessed by now that besides being a REALTOR® here in Asheville, NC, . . .I'm also an old schoolteacher. So when I got this request to help out a neighborhood elementary school, (
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05/08/2008
SO...having spent this weekend by a waterfall (see photo JT took ) on "forever wild" land adjacent to a conservation neighborhood our Asheville, N.C. real estate firm is getting to know... a number of questions about conservation easements popped up in my mind. . .22 to be exact...and there are
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05/05/2008
