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Tuesday, October 25, 2011



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Visualizing Payback

Who's to say how much or how little a prospective buyer will appreciate a home's remodeling features any more? (See d5R discussions here, here and here.) With remodeling return on investment increasingly hard to pin down, homeowners may appreciate this handy infographic to evaluate the upfront cost, annual and 20-year savings, and payback time of different "green" upgrades.

The chart comes from One Block Off the Grid, which provides group buying discounts to homeowners seeking solar upgrades.

Click here to see the infographic at full size, and/or to copy the embed code for your own use.

 

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MediaDC1012       576 days ago

Excellent points, guys. Seems your comments could also apply to most of the "best of" and "top 10 reasons to" and "how much will it cost" stories in every national media outlet. Oh, and also to the "elect me, and I'll lower your taxes, fix the economy and get America working again!" arguments. And those guys don't even come with a pretty picture.

Leah, d5R


RemodAR1609       576 days ago

Highly oversimplified and costs to implement aren't relevant in my market. If you look at their website and somehow get past all the "invitations" to join take a look at their "greener way to get there. Where I live there's usually only a few people on a public bus at a time. That makes them extremely inefficient. Then they compare Obama to Perry on energy policy. Not sure why, Perry hasn't won the nomination and hopefully won't. But they do have nice pictures.


OtherGA1003       576 days ago

Yeah, well, this is just another example of trying to make something complex simple for the general public, and in the process making misjudgments, mistakes, and providing a fair amount of general information. Trying to generalize investment costs and savings on specific choices without taking the specifics of the building, the climate, and owner behavior into account is pretty much a waste of time. It does make for a pretty picture, though.