Who will benefit from GreenHomesForSale.com?
We are people who are variously concerned about or sensitive to our environment. Some of us have degrees of chemical or other sensitivities to environmental elements and building materials that require high level clean and non toxic living and working spaces and others of us want to live in ecologically friendly homes.
Why should I sell my home through this site?
There is a national and international market for Green and Healthy homes that cannot be reached by local advertising, marketing or local real estate professionals.
Marketing your Green and or Healthy home on the GreenHomesForSale.com Web site will give your home direct exposure to individuals interested in high quality healthy and environmental homes.
Although some real estate professionals may be familiar with the concept of Green and Healthy homes, many are not knowledgeable about the inerrant extra value of your specialty home.
There is no reason to restrict your options - market your home locally AND market your home on GreenHomesForSale.com .
What is my Green and or Healthy home worth?
Green and Healthy homes have a higher value than comparable homes in your area because they offer greater benefits to those who desire an eco friendly healthy home.
What would a person pay for fewer trips to a medical professional?
What would a person pay for a home that saves more energy and resources than it uses?
What would a person pay for a home built with renewable or recycled materials?
Homes built with environmental and health considerations often commend a price premium of 10 to 15 percent compared to other homes in your area.
Are pictures important at GreenHomesForSale.com?
Pictures are very important. Pictures ensure that your listing will display in the random rotation of all listings on the home page. Listings with many good pictures tend to fall into the most viewed category.
Listings without pictures tend to be the least viewed.
I am a real estate professional - why should I use your site?
Because we reach a much larger audience for your specialty home than your local market provides. Green, Natural and Healthy homes are sought after by knowledgeable buyers who may change locations to live in an environmentally sound home.
People with environmental sensitivities are very desirous of safe homes and will move if an appropriate home can be located.
How can I view the contact details for a listing?
Contact information is displayed in listings and available to all. Except a few sellers may want a person to be registered and signed in to view contact info. Click here to register - It's FREE.
There are several ways to contact a seller:
1. Call the telephone number provided
2. Send the seller an email using the provided form
I am not able to log in, what's happening?
Before you can log in for the first time - you must click the link in the email verification notice that was sent to the email address you typed into the application form. If you do not get an email you may have a filter that is blocking the email or you may have typed in a bad email address.
If you are still not able to log in - please contact us for assistance.
How can I update my listing or create a new listing?
Log into your member/seller control panel using your email address and password. Once logged in click the link for the info you wish to update and a form will open allowing you to make any changes you desire.
There are two different areas in the sellers control panel:
1. Near the top, under the header graphic and menu bar, is the location for managing your personal and contact information and the Message Center.
2. Below the area above is a light green area - this is where you manage your listing specific information. In the light green area you can create a new listing or edit an existing listing by clicking the "edit listing" link.
And in the same light green area you can add photos and set the display order of your photos by clicking the "manage photos" link.
CREATE NEW LISTINGS:
You can create your listing for the first time by going to the light green area, scroll down until you see the light green area, and clicking on the link that says "edit listing."
We suggest that you review other listings, and in your word processor, type the copy you want for your listing. Then log in and complete the listing application by copying and pasting the text you created in your word processor.
EDIT EXISTING LISTING:
You can change the copy in your listing by going to the light green area, scroll down until you see the light green area, and clicking on the link that says "edit listing."
CHANGE PERSONAL & CONTACT INFORMATION:
You can change your password and email address in the white area above the light green area.
You can change and arrange the display order for any of the 20 photos.
Please note that homes above 4,999sf are not allowed and any listings found to be larger than 4,999sf will be deleted.
GreenHomesForSale.com Features:
Free to contact sellers:
All contact information is contained in every listing. |
20 pictures of homes for sale:
You can upload up to 20 pictures of a home. You also are able to choose the image that will be the headline image and rank all the other images for display order. |
Edit your listings:
Sellers are able to edit listing(s) easily and on line. Log into your listing control panel and edit all aspects of a listing, upload photos and view the messaging features of GHFS. The control panel system easily allows members and sellers to update email address and phone numbers and the sale price and any other info that is displayed in a listing. |
Security For Sellers:
The GHFS system protects the email addresses of our members and sellers by not displaying member or seller email address on site. We do display the sellers phone number in a listing and a contact text area for any site visitor to send an email to a seller. Sellers can indicate, in their control pane, whether to display contact info to all visitors or only to registered members. The default is to display contact info in a listing. |
Control Panel:
Sellers and members have access to a control panel to manage listings. Personal contact information can be changed whenever you wish. The control panel is the launching pad for adding properties and photos. Everything in a listing can be edited and fine tuned to your liking – including the display order of your photos. |
My Saved Listings:
Sellers and members can store listings that interest them for future review. |
GHFS remembers all email sent and received:
GHFS saves copies of all email sent to sellers. Sellers have copies of all email sent to them and members will have copies of all emails sent to sellers. |
Links to personal home page:
Sellers can add links to personal home pages that relate to their listings. |
About GreenHomesForSale.com
Our goal is to provide a high quality Internet venue to assist you to buy and sell green, healthy, and ecological homes. We believe GreenHomesForSale.com fulfills a need to help people find just the right home.
If you are a real estate professional and want to list green and healthy homes for your clients we welcome you to utilize our services. If you have questions or comments please do not hesitate to contact us.
If you think what we are doing is of value - we greatly appreciate your telling your friends and associates, mention us in news groups, place links to GreenHomesForSale.com on your sites and if you know of any other sites we should know about please let us know. You are the beginning of our green and healthy homes for sale network - help us spread the word.
We are interested in making GreenHomesForSale.com as user friendly and information rich as possible. Do you have any ideas about how we can improve? Please send us an email or give us a ring - we really are open to your suggestions. Contact Us.
Home Size
For the purpose of the Green Homes for Sale Web site a 4,999 sf home is a very large home. We can't stipulate that a certain sf size is green or not green - but we choose to limit the size of homes on this site to less than 5,000 sf, IE 4,999 sf or smaller.
(As of 6/10/2008)
Larger homes use more materials in manufacture, transportation and construction and require more energy to heat and cool. Highly energy efficient homes that are 5,000 sf use, at a minimum, twice the energy of 2,500 sf homes.
We are happy to assist you to sell your environmental/ecological home as long is it is 4,999 sf, or less, in gross sf size (including exterior walls).
Please note that homes above 4,999sf are not allowed and any listings found to be larger than 4,999sf will be deleted.
NO EXCEPTIONS.
(As of 6/10/2008)
What is a Green home?
While there are perhaps many ways to define a green home for the purposes of this site I define a green home as one that meets at least a few of the following criteria:
Made with generally non-toxic building materials
Energy efficient - a generally tight house with energy efficient appliances and windows and HVAC and ventilation systems
Solar home - derives most of its space and water heating from the sun
Recycled content materials
Resource efficient materials
Materials from renewable resources
Sensitive to its neighbors and context
Use of locally manufactured building materials
What is a Healthy home?
While people with environmental sensitivities differ greatly, and their needs vary wildly, generally, a healthy home has been built or remodeled with low or non-toxic materials and have been provided adequate ventilation, filtration, and HVAC systems. Often older homes, which have not been remodeled recently, are a good beginning for a healthy home as any previously toxic materials have out gassed most or all unhealthy constituents.
In a healthy home one generally eliminates as much toxic materials as possible. Thus during the building or remodeling process materials know to be toxic are simply not used in a healthy home. If a material known to contain toxic materials or gasses cannot be replaced then it is appropriate to "encapsulate" these materials with appropriate sealers or other materials or technologies. Because our homes are "tighter" than ever - proper ventilation is key to maintaining healthy indoor air quality. Thus healthy homes eliminate and encapsulate building materials and finally ventilate and filter to keep indoor air quality high.
There are many ways to define a healthy home, however, for our purposes we define a healthy home as one that meets at least a few of the following criteria:
Made or remodeled with generally non-toxic building materials
No pesticide use in or around the home - this is essential
Home is maintained with non-toxic cleaning supplies - this is essential
HVAC, ventilation and filtration systems that are designed for optimum health
An older home that would ordinarily not be considered healthy that has been updated with health in mind could be a good possibility for individuals wanting a healthy home.
What is a Natural home?
We consider natural homes to be those built with generally natural materials like adobe and straw. Rammed earth, stone and other earthen technologies also qualify. Carefully crafted homes made of wood may also be considered as a natural home. We also consider as natural and eco - homes built with conservation and solar in mind. Natural homes are often energy efficient homes.
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