Your customers’ interest in energy efficiency and “going green” is on the rise. By partnering with Energy IQ you will be able to offer a unique service to your clients. You will also increase energy efficient/green listings in your portfolio and give your clients a marketing advantage.
Energy IQ offers Comprehensive Home Inspection services for the real estate market, brokers, lenders and home purchasers or sellers. Our background allows us to be uniquely positioned to offer comprehensive home inspection services that can incorporate Energy Audit & Home Energy Rating Standards (HERS) into the equation – the Energy IQ Home Inspection!
Typical home inspections fall short in offering the whole picture of how a home operates or performs. Being able to project energy costs and pinpoint energy efficiency attributes, or shortcomings, offers the home buyer a much broader picture of a homes true operating costs. This also offers the home seller the opportunity to either showcase efficiency improvements made, or points to cost effective improvements that could be made to more effectively and competitively market the home.
A HERS Rated home also opens the home buyer up to additional financing options such as the Energy Efficient Mortgage (EEM) that allows various needed energy efficient improvements to be rolled into the mortgage, and actually creating a net positive cash flow for the home owner, while increasing the homes value! Additionally, an energy rating allows homebuyers to easily compare the energy performance of the homes being considered.
As Realtors, Brokers and Lenders become more familiar with these energy efficiency & financing tools, HERS Ratings & Energy Audits will soon become a regular component of home transactions. There are already several states around the country that require an Energy Audit and homes to be HERS rated at the time of sale. This is one of the reasons the MLS now offers an information box for entering the HERS Rating, EnergyStar® or Green Built Certification, or other Green/Energy Efficient information or attributes of the home.
