Comments on: Austin Area First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit http://austinhomeblog.com/2009/03/10/austin-area-first-time-home-buyer-tax-credit/ A weblog digest of Austin, TX real estate news, articles, essays and funny things about events and trends impacting the Austin real estate market. We update this blog 2-3 times a week. Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:57:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: johnnygl123 http://austinhomeblog.com/2009/03/10/austin-area-first-time-home-buyer-tax-credit/#comment-2504 johnnygl123 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 06:08:43 +0000 http://austinhomeblog.com/2009/03/10/austin-area-first-time-home-buyer-tax-credit/#comment-2504 The tax credit is good -- but only if you haven't bought a home. So what about those of us, (like me) - that have? Try this: http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=products.pr_tax_credits I was browsing around, trying to find a way to cut my costs and realized that the government was giving tax credits for energy efficiency work. Additionally, the city of Austin and Austin Energy have a rebate program for the new mandate requiring all houss to be "Green" prior to selling them. I found a list of the contractors on Austin Energy's homepage --lower left hand corner -- http://www.austinenergy.com/ and called all the vendors. I spoke in detail with about 5 of them (the rest never even answered the phone) and eventually spoke with green collar operations -http://www.greencollaroperations.com/ and had them do an energy audit and perform some insulation on my house. So basically I made money by having them come out because of the tax credit, the rebate the city gave me and the fact that my bills are already down - and it has gotten warmer over the last 2 months. Just my 2Cents -John The tax credit is good — but only if you haven’t bought a home. So what about those of us, (like me) – that have? Try this:

http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=products.pr_tax_credits

I was browsing around, trying to find a way to cut my costs and realized that the government was giving tax credits for energy efficiency work. Additionally, the city of Austin and Austin Energy have a rebate program for the new mandate requiring all houss to be “Green” prior to selling them. I found a list of the contractors on Austin Energy’s homepage –lower left hand corner –
http://www.austinenergy.com/

and called all the vendors. I spoke in detail with about 5 of them (the rest never even answered the phone) and eventually spoke with green collar operations -http://www.greencollaroperations.com/
and had them do an energy audit and perform some insulation on my house. So basically I made money by having them come out because of the tax credit, the rebate the city gave me and the fact that my bills are already down – and it has gotten warmer over the last 2 months. Just my 2Cents

-John

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