All Forum Posts by: Daniel Okorie

Any recommendation for software or website to look up commercial lease comps besides loopnet? 

 Thanks a lot for the feedback. Please share with anyone you think would be interested in contributing.

All of these homes will be built to EPA LEED standard. In terms of bugs, Building is very binary. Once you've built a floor plan or developed land for residential, commercial or industrial buildings, it's basically tweak, rinse, and repeat based on the project. Mandalay has a 2000 home subdivision that they are building but other builders have smaller and larger projects. There's builder in tyler texas that builds 3 homes at a time, waits for them to sell, and repeats but he has enough land to build for 100 years that he purchased super cheap.

@Beau Fannon I meant to say little to no electricity bills!! Lol

I'm wondering if you were to have a do over when you were about to buy the home that you currently live, would you have paid what you paid for the house in community that you live in or paid more for a similar house in a zero maintenance cost (NO HOA FEES) community and the house was a zero energy grid ready home (This means you will have little to no electric) and little to zeor water bills every month on top of NO HOA fees?

If you would pay more, How much more? 20% more...30% more?

Very nice. I plan on going to the sustainable city towards the end of this year or next year during the dubai winter. Why do you say it's a PR stunt? 

There are bunch of developers and builders going this route or already doing this where it is necessary like arizona, california, and hawaii. 

No large spec builder that I know of in houston is really implementing alot of this "green" tech on a large scale. 

In terms of the zero maintenance, I meant in regards to your HOA maintenance fees. For instance in a mix use development, if a portion of the commercial space could subsidize or partially offset the HOA fees, would that be a perk that would sway you to buy in that neighborhood or community along with all the other green amenities in the home such as solar and greywater that would offset some or all of your utility bills? How much more would you pay for such amenities in the same home that you live in if it was available at the time of purchase? Would you care if those were options?

Looking at it from a consumer standpoint, I personally would pay more....as much as I can afford. If I were to spend $250k and up on a new home, i'd want something that would somewhat future proof my home. I'm not just looking at the pay back but the overall impact of my purchase decision socially, economically, and environmentally.

To me it is easier to add granite, new cabinets, and latest lighting than to add solar with battery storage, greywater, spray foam insualtion...etc.

What do you think?

 Thanks for the feedback. But my question is based of communities and ideas that already exist or are being built as we speak. You can oogle Mandalay homes in arizona or the sustainable city in dubai (http://www.thesustainablecity.ae/). Let me know what you think.

 Same here. Thanks for the feedback. Share with anyone that you would appreciate what i'm trying to do. A client of mine that works in artificial intelligence once told me that the future is telling computers what to do or being told what to do by computers (algo's). I see how thats possible but in the meantime a lot can be done before we get there.

 Thanks for the feedback!!

 Thanks I'll send you a pm with my details.

I'm wondering if you were to have a do over when you were about to buy the home that you currently live, would you have paid what you paid for the house in community that you live in or paid more for a similar house in a zero maintenance cost community and the house was a zero energy grid ready home (This means you will have little to no electric or water bills every month on top of NO HOA fees)?

If you would pay more, How much more? 20% more...30% more?