Let me put this thought out there for us to think about; The biggest hurtle in the growth of natural building is the lack of resale action.

Until we in the community can generate substantial sales to people that want to live in these homes without actually building them themselves, we will not successfully promote these building practices into the mainstream. The average buyer these days is starting to think about “green” issues in their real estate endeavors, but they don’t know much about any of it, certainly not much about natural building. If they knew more they would look for these homes, buy these homes, and in turn fund the building of ever more of these homes.

The rest of the machinery of real estate compounds this problem, Agents don’t get it, Appraisers don’t get it, Banks don’t get it, and often even the Sellers don’t get it…

I want to work towards fixing those problems. And I want your help!

If you have sold a natural building or even come close, I want to hear your story.

If you have tried to sell a natural building and had NO LUCK AT ALL, I want to hear your story.

If you have bought a natural building, I really want to hear your story.

And above all, if you are trying to buy a natural building I want to hear your story!

Now, I don’t yet live in what I would call a natural home, My house is stick built, but I do work at keeping it efficient and it is under one thousand square feet. I am a real estate agent and EcoBroker Certified®, but still, the more I look at green real estate, and especially the natural building section of the market, the more I see a howling void of information and knowledge let alone sales. So I come to you, the experts and ask, what can you tell me?