LEED HOUSE FOR SALE:
5800 sqft in excellent neighborhood with great floorplan. Does not have convenient lighting control system, house music, or integrated security system. No consolidated entertainment system but you can still have ugly electronics components all over the house and maybe even some wires installed outside along the walls by the cable/phone/sat guys. No convenient custom remotes to easily control everything. No structured wiring engineered by a systems integration pro so there is no easy way to add the missing features if you wanted to. LEED certified builder built this incredibly tight home with excellent insulation but there’s no zoned A/C and the units are oversized so it’s never comfortable in all the rooms. Installer used “rule of thumb” instead of engineering the geothermal loops so you can expect to consume up to twice the energy the system is capable of saving. Manufacturer provided fireplace thermostat doesn’t talk to the A/C so the temperature swings but fortunately you can put it into manual mode. Expansive areas of glass provide amazing views but there’s no automatic shading so most of the time it’s just plain uncomfortable if the sun is out. You’ll be excited to come home to efficient Energy Star appliances and TVs, especially because they are left on most of the time, avoiding that low-power sleep mode that qualified them for the Energy Star label in the first place. No advanced energy management system so you’ll just have to “make the rounds” to turn off all the lights, adjust the per floor thermostats, and turn off the TVs when no one is in the rooms. No intercom but you can use “holla-net” if you need to find someone in this large, beautiful house. Basement has only flooded twice since construction but only during storms when the power and communications are out. Stylish, free-energy-cost solar panel array and extended power inverter were excluded so a gas-powered generator could be installed–weekly test run cycles further contribute to NoZone days. The lucky homeowners buying this beauty have the opportunity to reset their clocks when the grid drops out and can watch their utility costs rise over time. Unencumbered by an easily visible energy management system, you can just write one big utility check every month and be blissfully ignorant of where the energy was going. No complex split-manifold water system with reverse-osmosis water system but there’s an exercise room so you can try to compensate for the bad stuff you’re putting into your body. Original homeowners/builder decided to put all the stuff people want into “their next home” so this one is available at a significantly reduced price.
Sure is pretty though…great house to visit.
