Not long ago a prominent California Realtor inquired about the issues concerning so many new homes that were built in Southern California before the bubble burst without insulation in the walls or attic:
Why are Southern California Homes Built with Little or No Insulation?
This is an outstanding question and one, which deserves a decent answer. You see, new homes are not required to put much insulation in the homes and therefore they don't, indeed they should have more insulation. It does get both cold at night and very hot in the daytime often enough. Lack of proper insulations just kills budgets for California families.
Sure, the climate in California is to die for, maybe that is why Los Angeles County is over 460 square miles of concrete with some 16.5 million people living on it, and it's growing! People are still packing it in, traffic is also increasing along with smog and power usage. So, one would think that the homes would have better insulation to stop brown outs or rolling blackouts in peak summer season with the heat.
Additionally, the Urban Heat Island is a huge issue as well, it is generally 5-7 degrees hotter due to all that concrete, which holds in the heat even at night, so sometimes it never cools down like it should in the middle of the night. Obviously, this problem needs to be fixed and all homes should have insulation in them, at least enough to hold in the air-conditioning that is running full blast.
There are other issues to consider too, as the last housing boom produced houses at break-neck speed with shoddy workmanship, seriously some of the homes were inches apart at the seams, so it is hard to remain energy efficient when they leak out heat at night and allow heat in during the hot summer days.
How much do homeowners pay who do not have proper insulation? Some as much as $2,000 per year or more, so stretch that over 10-years and you could have paid for the insulation 10 times over or put in solar panels for instance. What did you grandfather use to say? Do it right the first time. Unfortunately, they didn't, and homeowners are left holding the bag.
In defense, the homebuilders say that if they ฝากขายทาวน์เฮ้าส์ had, then some people would not have been able to purchase the home in the first place and they would not have a home to live in. Yet, if the price were raised and they would have bought a more moderate size home, maybe they would not be facing foreclosure now.
So, who is to blame? We all are and hindsight is 20/20 although just for the record, "I Told You So!" Yes, back in 1999, I foresaw all of this and here we are today. I can tell you this, I would have been very happy to have been wrong on all that, as I look at the next three quarters of the real estate sector. Something to contemplate in 2008.
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