The cash flow purists are going to hunt me down and beat me for this one, but here it goes. 2 years ago I bought a property (foreclosure, on MLS) for 26K, put a ton of money into it but got energy rebates.

Your post reminds me of "all of us are in the gutter but some are staring at the stars."

And they sucked up so much of their time and energy that they vowed to never buy anything but single families homes again.

All the cities I dealt with viewed a moved house as new construction, i.e. house had to be brought up to current codes including latest energy codes.

I didn't want to spend too much more energy on the deal until we got that data.

The reason is there will be rehab and extra time and energy for the return spent and also no income coming in.Even if you go 60% costs the numbers still work at the purchase price.

Currently I work as a fund support manager in the project finance group at a global solar energy company called SunEdison.

They put in bulbs that I really like that seem like natural daylight.No charge, part of an energy saving program.

Energy Tech Construction Inc.

You'll be able to figure this out before you run out of energy - that's important.