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Metro Brokers TV: Welcome to Metro Brokers TV. We are up at the Habitat for Humanity project here in Arvada, Colorado and I am here today with Steve McKensy and welcome Steve.
Steve McKensy: Thank you for having me here.
Metro Brokers TV: Hey, you should probably welcome me for being out here in the snow and the mud.
Steve McKensy: And all of the mud and everything for this day[Phonetic] and Mark you are out here in your suit. I mean again... I mean what a guy eh, come out here no matter what.
Metro Brokers TV: Someone has got to do the work. Hey, so tell me have you been on a Habitat for Humanity project before?
Steve McKensy: Yes actually, I think this is probably the third time I have been on Mark. A couple of other times not with Metro Brokers, but this is my first time with Metro Brokers on a Habitat project.
Metro Brokers TV: How many Metro Brokers you think are on here today?
Steve McKensy: Well, we have probably 10 to 12 Metro Brokers out here today including many are from our office.
Metro Brokers TV: And you were... you were telling me you were in an eco broker class here today and I was surprised to hear you talking about the fact... this house is being built above the energy standard requirements, correct?
Steve McKensy: Yes, I was actually talking to Cathy, who is the project manager here for Habitat, these three homes and it was interesting now after attending the eco broker training and seminar and becoming certified to come here to the new builds and start watching and seeing what's taking place with these homes. You know it's my opinion in this day and age that the consumer more and more is going to be demanding some of the energy features that you are seeing taking place here in this habitat home. For example, the energy star windows that are in the home, the [Inaudible] where you can actually see where the sun is coming down the windows, you won't feel the heat. Same thing on the side of the north side where the cold is at, normally you walk up to those windows. [Inaudible] As you go through the home and you start looking, you will see for example the studs. There are 2 x 6 studs and they are 24 inches apart giving them more the ability to go in and insulate between those walls and put a barrier to prevent the heat and cold of course from coming in. They also are insulating the inside with R-19 and then on the outside blue board are R-3. So, giving you about a 21, 22 inch R-rating for your heat and energy conservation. One of the other things I think that's really interesting she told me about these particular homes is that they are also going to use all energy star appliances and apparently Whirlpool is actually donating on all these Habitat projects refrigerators and the ranges.
Metro Brokers TV: So, it sounds like they have really stepped it up as far as energy efficiency and even on the Habitat homes?
Steve McKensy: Yes, the other thing is 90% efficiency furnaces are going to be put in here and I asked Cathy, "What are we going to see as the average utility bill?" and she said, "It probably will be about $85 a month in these homes." This home here is about a 1400 square foot home, four bedroom, one-and-a-half bath.
Metro Brokers TV: Great. Well, we appreciate your work out here Steve. Metro Brokers you know is involved in a lot of community projects and it is people like you that make things happen at Metro Brokers.
Steve McKensy: All right. I appreciate... appreciate the interview and as I said earlier if you think that we [Phonetic] encourage our agents and brokers to start looking at this NAR green designation and there is also another one called the eco broker designation. We do feel that the... our clients are going to be more and more as time goes on going to be really wanting and demanding these things from us.
Metro Brokers TV: Right. Thanks Steve.
Steve McKensy: Thank you.
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