It's been nearly 8 months since the $8,000 cap was removed from FHA's Energy Efficient Mortgage (EEM) and it's high time banks start taking notice of this dynamic financing tool! To say that lenders have been slow to adopt the EEM's new guidelines would be a massive understatement. While cities, consultants and venture capitalists race to put together AB811 type programs for residents, banks could adopt the new EEM guidelines and enable their costumers to both purchase and refinance real estate and obtain extra funds that can be spent on energy efficiency improvements.
This Saturday, February 27th of 2010 I'll be doing the 1st of many workshops about EEMS. With my friend Michael McNeely of Wells Fargo at The Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano we'll
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