Apartment Owners

Join us in making America green. Owning an apartment building is a challenging business. Having too many vacancies can turn a profitable business into a losing proposition. Upgrading your rentals with energy and water efficient improvements can help reduce and/or shorten vacancy times while reducing expenses for you and your tenants while helping the environment.

You have probably already made many improvements to your properties. Now American Green Standard can help you to assess your apartment building to determine what additional energy saving improvements would be cost effective. Then AGS will give you credit for your improvements and your commitment to a program for the long term upgrades of your apartments.

By letting your current and future tenants know your apartment is an American Green Standard Certified Green Apartment, they will understand the additional value of your rentals. More quickly renting your units will additionally compensate your expenditures for upgrades and certification. Doing the right thing for the environment is its own reward.

Apartment Renters

Choosing an apartment to rent involves weighing many benefits against costs. An American Green Standard Certified Green Apartment helps you make that decision by ensuring the apartment owner has committed to a long term program of green improvements.

Now you can help the environment while saving money, by renting an American Green Standard Certified Green Apartment. You will encourage this owner as well as others, to do the right thing by using less water, wasting less energy and saving more of our natural resources.

Description

American Green Standard seeks to educate the public and the real estate brokerage community as to what "going green" really means in the housing community. Their goal, through the educational process, is to define the benefits of "going green" to the homeowner. These benefits can be identified financially, socially and with the satisfaction of making a positive contribution to their neighborhood and to the environment (or "the community at large", if you don't want to use the word environment).

Advantages

• Increase your knowledge of residential green improvements to help develop your relationship with clients.
• Distinguish yourself and have a leg up on your competition in this up and coming area of real estate.
• Receive 3 credits from the Department of Real Estate toward your required 45 hours of continuing education requirement needed every four years.