It's no fault to the builders, efficiency is not yet a market driver, so they have not incorporated it into their product.The only highly efficient homes around here (2-Passivhaus and a handful of millennial homes) were custom builds and higher end - with the exception of the new Habitat home.

It sounds like it's an empty property that would be losing money each month, so you as the buyer should be in the driver's seat.  

That video brought tears to my eyes.Then, the video mentions something like people who earn $150k, or $300k (can't remember) tell everyone they don't earn enough money to purchase a property.Then, there is the story I told 100 times on BP about the 20-year old Japanese girl who ran away from her parents in Japan, arrived in this country with zero money, never got a job, never had a driver license, never had a boyfriend and in 7 years she owned (financed) 18 condos and single family homes in upper middle-class neighborhoods and she called me on the phone and told me she had purchased a $550k house in Las Vegas and another house in Victorville California making her total 20 houses.It was strange when I met the Japanese girl in 2001 because I had just purchased my first apartment building that was 28 units and she saw me working on the apartments every day and she wanted to hustle me for free work and rides all over the city.

If you work like a mad man and find a great broker and mentor you will have a chance.

One of the richest guys I know drives a trash truck but he has drivers for the other 149 trucks he owns .  

Driver around all the streets and look for vacant houses.

I was mad at the time, but then thought,  on my first few deals I was scared out of my mind too. 

The market should be a huge driver here. 

When they discover they are going to have to invest in their learning and in legal documents that are actually correct, they often get mad because the realization rains on their pipe dreams of investing a few thousand dollars and becoming a multi-millionaire with very little work.Like many others here, I am a very big believer in due diligence, and the more detailed and multi- faceted the better.

Good day all, I just started a new chapter in my life after a life altering event, a year ago my wife suffered a severe stroke that left her Quadraplegic and Vent dependent, she's now recovering but as a truck driver I had to come off the road, looking for field-training, and other creative minds to bounce ideas.If you'd like to get together for coffee/or tea I'm more than interested, Metro Area pleaseCarl M