@Kenneth Garrett My understanding is you'd have to subject yourself to the laws as a reseller of energy like the companies that constantly call and knock on our doors claiming to be sent by ComEd to lower our bills.

Your energy is always best spent in the present and planning for the future.

However, I do recommend the NYSERDA energy efficient program to pay for energy improvements like furnaces, H2O tanks, insulation, windows, etc.https://www.nyserda.ny.gov/All-Programs/Programs/Home-Energy-Efficiency-Upgrades

You're on an investing forum so have you put much energy into the investment side of things?

What we have done: all new kitchen 6 years ago, all new bathrooms last year, new energy-efficient windows and sliding glass door, new drywall texturing, new base and case, created a 4th bedroom in the basement (cut a window and finished the room), new HVAC 4 years ago.

I'm a huge believer in focusing your energies in 1 or 2 areas rather being a hack at everything. 

. $1600 for everything (two pipes even- the expensive part is the excavating, you can dig it up yourself if you need cheap and have time and energy on your hands).

I have built and remodeled hundreds of homes utilizing green materials, energy efficient products, and high-performance building techniques that most builders have never heard of simply because the practices I utilize are ABOVE code.

The entire time I've had a financial restlessness and did not know where to put that tension/energy.

It does have old single pane windows that I have thought about upgrading depending on the appraisal, which I think will help justify the increase in rent easily with savings in energy cost.