Consulting & Decision Support
Are home buyers asking you questions about energy efficiency and green features that you can't or don't have time to answer?
Do your past clients or potential home buyers want a green expert for decision support?
If you bring them the tools they need (re-HOME's services) will they be happy customers of yours, perhaps close faster, and refer you to their families and friends?
If so, consider using these tools:
Tool 1: Give Home Buyers the Option to Learn How They Can 'Green' Their Home
Why:
Mid-range home buyers are market-savvy, interested in lowering their energy bills, and will act once they feel that they've 'done their homework'. Help them do their homework by giving them an in-home energy assessment.
Options:
- Level 1: re-HOME Basic Assessment, $75
- Level 2: re-HOME Advanced Assessment, $200
- Level 3: re-HOME Premium Assessment, $300
Click here for more about energy assessments.
Tool 2: Create a Green or 'Green Ready' Feature Checklist for Your Listed Properties
Have re-HOME do a walk-through on your listed properties where we create a green or 'green-ready' feature checklist. Then tout this checklist as a special service to potential home-buyers.
Tool 3: Give Clients a Green Assessment as a Closing Gift To Differentiate Yourself
Give clients one of the above closing gifts as a special thank you. Word of mouth advertising is the least expensive and most effective way to market yourself, especially in this economic climate.
Specialized Decision Support:
Do your clients need decision support on very particular questions? Refer potential home buyers to us to help with questions they may have such as the following:
- They see the potential for energy efficiency in a prospective home that they've seen, but they want to make sure of it. The people at the Home Show recommended new Low-E windows. However, should you really get new windows or is your money best spent elsewhere?
- Your client's brother-in-law is raving about his whole-house fan. Yet, she wonders: Is that the best way to take advantage of the diurnal temperature swings in Tucson?
- A potential home buyers want to get as 'off-the-grid' as he can in a new home. What is the best, most efficient way to start this process?
- A home buyer would like to utilize her grey water. How can she most easily (an inexpensively) go about doing that in a new home or what does she look for in prospective homes?
