Providing Your Link to Green Real Estate Solutions
Why live in or near
For example, in recent years, Country Living Magazine has listed Asheville as one of the 25 Best Green Places in America, Blue Ridge Outdoors suggested that Asheville was leading the Green Revolution, and Natural Home Magazine named West Asheville as it’s #1 ECO-Friendly Community .
This is in addition to Asheville being labeled a “smart, progressive burg” and the “ #1
What makes us so happy?
Green homes and green remodels make Ashvillians happy among other things. These homes and remodels are constructed with both the environment and family health in mind. During the construction process builders practice sustainable site practices and resource-conservation strategies. Once built, green homes are more efficient, use less energy and water, and create less pollution. The same is true of green remodels.
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What makes Your ECO-Friendly Realty Team “Green”?
A number of things . . .
Your ECO-Friendly Realty Team understands that happy, healthy, efficient, durable homes help keep Asheville and its surrounding mountains a healthy and safe place to live.
Your ECO-Friendly Realty Team is knowledgeable in smart growth, sustainable design, building techniques and materials for new construction and remodeling.
Your ECO-Friendly Realty Team helps sellers by communicating the value of their green features to buyers, other agents and the general market.
Your ECO-Friendly Realty Team helps buyers determine what green features are most important to them and help them find the real estate that best suits their needs.
Your ECO-Friendly Realty Team loves finding homes that are healthy for you and your family, and that are energy and resource efficient and non-toxic.
What are some of the other aspects of green of which Your ECO-Friendly Realty 
Team consultants suggests being aware?
Size: In general small is better. Fewer resources are consumed.
Location: Live near the places to which you have to go. You will use less gas and probably be able to use public transportation. Avoid environmentally sensitive places.
Water Efficiency: Use water-conserving bathroom and kitchen fixtures, rain barrels, reused water.
Energy Efficiency: Lighting, heating, cooling, appliances, water-heating, tightly-sealed Energy Star doors and windows.
Renewable Energy: Solar hot water, solar voltaic energy, geo-thermal heating.
Building Design: Aesthetics, natural light, building positioning, overhangs for shade and sun at the right times.
Materials: Non-toxic, renewable, recycled, salvaged.
Insulation: High-R factor, non-toxic.
Indoor Air Quality: Natural ventilation, clean air HVAC circulation, no garage fumes, non-toxic materials and furnishings.
Landscaping: Native, drought-tolerant plants, shade, viewscape.
What will you like about the spirit and energy of Your Eco-Friendly Realty Team?
We address the challenges of buying and selling homes and the concerns of moving and transitions along with our clients. We work for and with the individual, the family, the dwelling, the community and the Planet.
We support the building and remodeling of energy efficient, healthy, comfortable homes the right size to nourish those who live, work and play within them. We hope that our dwellings will sustain us and the lives around us.
We try to know ourselves and to put our time, energy, and focus where our hearts are, to enrich the lives of our children and to draw upon the wisdom of our mountains and elders.
We also invite candidates for a career in real estate who share our values to work with us to share lives worth living, careers worth having, and businesses worth owning.
What our clients are saying:
You are amazing! Thanks so much for being so vigilant.
--Jane C.
Thanks for all your efforts to make this a smooth transition for us all!
--Randi B.
You made us feel comfortable at our very first meeting with you. With your patience, knowledge and organization, you made the process of looking for and buying a home very easy for us. Thank you for making us feel like we were your only clients! We really enjoyed working with you and appreciated your care and concern about our sick kitty through all of this, as well!
--Steve, Donna, Zoe and Zelda H.
Aside from developing good rapport with Mary Ellen, she has exhibited very commendable qualities in the homebuyer’s arena. We have always been fully informed of any background information regarding each property we have shown interest in, allowing us to make an informed decision, and ascertaining whether the home would be a good investment. We appreciate her guidance as she works with honesty and integrity and wishes for the best real estate investment for her clients.
--Debbie and Allen R.
Thank you Mary Ellen for everything you did to make this happen. Wishing you both laughter and love.
--Katy F.
Wanted to thank you for all your time and effort poured into making this happen and for the gracious way you went about your business. Your advice and know how, especially given our remote location during the process, was very much appreciated. -Larry F. and Michele A.
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