Assembling Your “A-Team”

Residential Flipping and Leasing

Tonight we will talk about team building.   Building the team to find, buy, renovate and rent or sell the finished products.

As you know, I now live 3,000 miles away from most of the work that GreenEarthEquities has done and is continuing to do. So the only way I could possibly do this is with a great team. Even with my new operation in Virginia, all of the work has been done by the great team I have been blessed to find.

We’ve had a lot of questions like, “How do you find a good contractor that won’t charge an arm and a leg?”  We’ll spend a lot of time answering that and similar questions as well as a few pointers on selecting the other team members…  Realtor, Lender, Escrow-Title Officer, Raters, Inspectors, and all the various subcontractors and vendors.

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2012 BPI Tony Woods Award Winner

Dave Robinson of GreenEarthEquities Receives BPI’s 2012 Tony Woods Award for Excellence in Advancing the Home Performance Industry.  The award recognizes the individual who has most advanced the home performance industry over the past year.

Baltimore, Maryland, March 29, 2012 -The Building Performance Institute, Inc. (BPI), the nation’s premier standards development and contractor credentialing organization for residential energy efficiency retrofit work, yesterday honored Dave Robinson of GreenEarthEquities by naming him the 2012 recipient of the Tony Woods Award for Excellence in Advancing the Home Performance Industry in the Opening Plenary ceremony of the ACI National Home Performance Conference in Baltimore, Maryland.

Robinson was nominated by industry peers and selected by an independent panel of impartial judges for his passionate commitment to performing deep energy retrofits on foreclosed homes, and for training others to do the same. His innovative approach has brought much needed home performance services to an often neglected corner of the residential housing market.

Robinson performed energy efficiency renovations for 30 years and served the industry as president of the California Building Performance Contractors Association (CBPCA) before founding GreenEarthEquitiesin 2008.

GreenEarthEquities buys foreclosed homes and performs deep energy retrofits on them before selling them again. His vision of finding like-minded investors and teaching them to replicate his proven strategies demonstrates his commitment to training “Energy-Wise House Flippers.”

“Dave Robinson is determined to save the Earth and improve the planet one house at a time,” said Larry Zarker, BPI CEO. “Robinson’s background as a contractor, real estate broker, energy auditor and teacher, combined with his creative thinking has allowed him to flourish in this challenging economy.”

Robinson’s business model has been so successful that the U.S. Department of Energy has awarded two contracts to GreenEarthEquities for the development of demonstration homes in California and Virginia, to measure specially designed HVAC and duct system configurations featuring Robinson’s energy efficient home performance improvements.

The Tony Woods Award for Excellence in Advancing the Home Performance Industry is an initiative from BPI in honor of Tony Woods, former president of Canam Building Envelope Specialists Inc. and ZERODRAFT®, and a pioneer of the home performance industry. During his career, he served tirelessly in the industry as a volunteer board member with BPI, Affordable Comfort Inc (ACI), as president of the Ontario Building Envelope Council and on more than ten standards committees dealing with air leakage control, air barriers, ventilation and more. He has presented on building envelope retrofit and home performance topics throughout North America and around the world. Woods passed away after a battle with leukemia on May 8, 2009, just over two weeks after the inaugural award in his name was presented by BPI.

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Performance Test 5967 E. Fedora Fresno CA

Gary Richardson, owner of Rare Services Heating and Cooling, performs a series of tests at 5967 E Fedora Fresno CA were we’ve installed a Dual Zoned ducted and non ducted Fujitsu Mini Split Heat Pump  in place of traditional HVAC systems.

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Added Value and Registration Process

Over a year in the making,  GreenEarthEquities is ready to launch its 2012 Added Value Membership Service! GEE’s invested decades, developing and refining the expertise necessary for successful energy wise house flipping. For years we provided an array of free educational services to our many green building partners.

As part of our completely redesigned website we’ve added hundreds of hours of webinars and training videos and continue to upload value packed information.  We’re excited to debut this new and improved site to better share decades of our expertise and provide a user friendly forum for a growing number of interested and concerned green building and industry partners.

In response to the growing requests for in-depth training in this important industry G.E.A.R. (Green Earth Alliance of Renovators) has been specially designed to assist Builders, Investors and Buyers  enjoy the many benefits and rewards of green residential remodeling. For a low monthly fee you’ll receive unrestricted access to:

• Blogs and Insightful Articles
• Webinars and Training Videos
• Personal Consultation
• Field Trip Access
• Online Boot Camps

Join us this Tuesday at 6PM (PT) and see how easy it is join G.E.A.R. We’ll have a look at all we presently offer and be taking your suggestions as to how we can be of further service.

Looking forward to working with and for you as together we help Save the Planet, One Foreclosed House at a Time..

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440 N. Eddy Fresno CA 93727

On tonight’s webinar we will demonstrate the installation of the eMonitor in Rogelio’s home.  The eMonitor is arguably the best of the “circuit by circuit” monitors available today.  Studies have found savings of 10 to 30% just from having good feedback about energy usage.  Most people are surprised to find out exactly where their electricity is going. Sometimes when we know how much something is costing, we decide we don’t need it that much.  Typical of these surprises are that extra (old) refrigerator in the garage, and various electronics in the home office and entertainment center.

Tonight we’ll install a 12 channel unit which will connect to the Internet with an Ethernet cable.  In a subsequent chapter we’ll connect with a “bridge” wireless gaming router and also another application which will monitor 24 channels. There is a real need for good Home Performance Data.

We’ll be installing these units on all of our houses in the future as well as our existing inventory and our own personal homes.   We’ve negotiated favorable pricing for the eMonitor for those who would like to participate and contribute data as they install Home Performance measures on their homes.   A blog page will be provided for each participant to record the anecdotal experience of living in the home as it gets more and more energy efficient.  Tune in tonight and help us design an efficient Data Gathering Program.

Tomorrow’s Field Trip: Wednesday January 4th  we will have a Field Trip of finished homes in Fresno and Clovis.   We will see the monitored Lab House,   The recently completed home on San Madelle and Rogelio’s completed home with the E-Monitor installation.   After lunch, Jennifer will show us the best candidate (s) for our next purchase.  We’ll tour the home and estimate the costs of renovation and discuss the new exit strategies. Please RSVP as Brenda is preparing awesome Mexican Food. Meet at the 5666 N Blackstone Fresno CA McDonalds at 10:00 AM.  We will journey to 1205 E San Madelle, then to 440 N Homsy (DOE-IBACOS project).

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440 N. Homsy & 1207 E. San Madele

About the Photo:  My nieces got politically incorrect and put this still life statement together with some friends.  The police called… the paper and it was on the front of the San Diego Union.  Way to go girls!

I’m back in Fresno, getting ready for family reunion over New Years.  I’m going to tour two of our recently finished homes, including our Department of Energy test house located at 440 Homsy.   From there I’ll meet with Jennifer to evaluate the San Madelle property. I’ll have new photos and comments about both houses on the Tuesday Webinar.

We’ll evaluate:

• What we did right

• What could have been better

• Where we may have over spent

• How the market has changed and how that impacts these issues

What we would do different if we were starting this project now
Also we’ll share our exit strategy thoughts and compare several options.

Looking forward to seeing you on the Webinar, Dave Robinson

PS: Next Wednesday, Jan 5th, 2012 I’ll be leading a Field Trip which will include one of these houses, another completed home and the “next suspect” for purchase.  We’ll also unveil our first new initiative for 2012… a practical home performance data gathering project based on real people installing real Home Performance in their homes and reporting real results thru the e-Monitor. You’ll see an e-Monitor installation and the computerized reporting interface.

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Energy Wise Appraisal Strategies

In order to not wind up stressed out over bad appraisals like the guy in the photo, we’ll discuss survival tips with the most Home Performance Savvy Appraiser I know.  We’ve been saying (and experiencing) that the market for deep energy retrofits along with nice remodeling has changed and become a hostile environment for this type of foreclosure renovation.  One of the primary sources of the hostility toward progress is the Bankers and Appraisals who don’t understand and therefore don’t give value to the primary work that we do.

Tonight we will interview one of the only fully  BPI certified Appraisers in the country.   Debra Little has paid her dues to learn the Home Performance Industry and is now teaching it for PG&E.  Scott Jura will also add knowledge of the local neighborhoods as we evaluate a recent appraisal received by GreenEarthEquities.   Several “green” Realtors will also add their insights.

We will review the Appraisal Institutes: Residential Green and Energy Efficient Addendum (click link to preview) as well as discuss how to present your property to the banks and how to “demand” an energy knowledgeable appraiser for your project… and how to communicate with that appraiser once they are assigned.

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January 2011 Part 2

Join Dave Robinson and several energy wise house flipper enthusiasts on a Fresno Field Trip that includes 503 Scott Ave Clovis CA in the early stages of remodel.  Bryan Martin, one half of GEE’s favorite real estate agent team, shows the group a new property were Dave discusses the do’s and don’t of making an offer for a potential house flip.

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