How Home Sales Can Advance Climate Goals—One Transaction at a Time

Local-First Home Energy Audit – Workflow

First, let's make homes greener, healthier, and more valuable.

Most homeowners don’t have the time, money, or appetite for a major retrofit while living in their house. That’s where timing, financing, and new technology come together to change the game — at the time of sale, when money changes hands and motivation is high.

Our system can make a deep retrofit of almost any home practical, affordable, and more sellable.

What's the missing link?

It's called the Green Home Predictor. With a city's support, it can help buyers and sellers model healthier homes, before move-in, to produce a smarter, climate-driven housing market.

Make it efficient now. Pay right before you sell or buy it.

1) Get an Energy Audit Report

A professional will snap photos and enter basics by area (attic, walls, windows, HVAC, basement, bills). This data is yours and should stays yours.

2) Develop a Smart Retrofit Plan

Our Green Home Predictor tool can review the report's inputs, highlight issues, and estimate savings & carbon cuts.

3) Empower Action on Your Terms

Use the Predictor's plan to get bids, capture rebates and apply for a Green Legacy Fund Loan (program pending approval). Choose the timing, contractors, and upgrades.

4) Pay When You Sell of Finance

No monthly payments. At sale or finance, repay the 0% principal and a small program/verification fee.

Green Home Club — Local-first, privacy-by-design.
Working to cut carbon, expand equity, and grow local retrofit jobs.
John Horchner

As a writer, my experience encompass community development, energy efficiency and travel. I hope to never lose the spark that made me interested in writing in the first place - finding real places with real people doing good things.

https://www.johnhorchner.com
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