If you heavily insulate a standard 16-gauge steel alcove tub like the Bootz products with a roll of unfaced insulation, you get much the same results.

You have to look at the per unit price of the apartment to gauge the rent vs purchase price.

For that you pressure wash off all the boards to determine if any wood rot exists anywhere and how bad.

Just trying to gauge whether or not this would be a good idea.

I am really liking that investing in Notes is a way to help relieve some of the pressure from struggling borrowers.

To the contrary, the more naysayers post on forums like you did, the less investment pressure focuses on Detroit and the more time I have to build my portfolio.  

We are real laggards in this regard ... too many years of cheap energy has made us wasteful and complacent.Stepping away from the doom and gloom for a moment, while there are precious few truly energy efficient buildings, interest is growing and you are starting to see pressure on building codes to take the subject seriously (though around here, they are still congratulating themselves on finally adopting R22 as the minimum insulation of a wall assembly).However, to date, depending on your clientele, there is no significant financial reward to the landlord to have an extremely energy efficient rental.  

I'm trying to gauge whether there is interest in having a meetup in the area.

Long lengths is bad because that gauge of wire is not cheap.

[A little something for the blood pressure of @Matt Geerts and @Greg S.]Another of Toronto's finest tenants, but al least this fellow has a little style.