Would You Live in An Experimental Energy Efficient/Energy Renewable Community?

[MotleyCrew]

That would also be too expensive for our final home. We are planning building a very small, solar home for our last box. I wish more communities would look at some alternative building products and hopefully in the near future the homes will cost less, not more.

[NOLA2SGF]

I'm all for energy efficiency, but it has to save ME money, not cost extra!! I would very much prefer a house with energy efficient updates over one that would have higher energy bills, all else being equal.

I can afford a fairly large retirement home, but will probably get a smaller one in order to use (and pay for) less energy. Energy prices are likely to skyrocket in the coming years, in my opinion, so it makes sense to me to prepare for that.

I am not interested in any type of planned community, if it involves a lot of rules and monthly fees, and petty tyrants (oops, I mean Homeowners' Associations! ) intruding on my peaceful retirement life.

[Redrover]

I agree about the housing cost being too high but the real issue for me is that it doesn't propose to be a mixed age community. Nothing against "seniors" (since I am about to turn 62 I can say this) but I frankly don't want to live in a neighborhood where everybody is the same age (relatively speaking). Why would this concept not be marketed to the full range of individuals who are interested in living green?

[LauraC]

Originally Posted by Redrover

I agree about the housing cost being too high but the real issue for me is that it doesn't propose to be a mixed age community. Nothing against "seniors" (since I am about to turn 62 I can say this) but I frankly don't want to live in a neighborhood where everybody is the same age (relatively speaking). Why would this concept not be marketed to the full range of individuals who are interested in living green?

Because, it appears from the article that the developer's research showed a significant number of boomers who are green oriented would be willing to pay more to live in a green community. It only says they are going to concentrate their marketing on them not restrict the community.