Artists Buying Foreclosures and Going Green

Off the Market and Off the Grid!

Throughout real estate history there have been artists, craftsmen, and creative visionaries that have uplifted neighborhoods of rundown homes and turned them into desirable neighborhoods. There is such a movement happening in Detroit. These visionaries are buying up foreclosed properties for as little as $1,900 and using solar and wind energy to power their newly uplifted homes.

What is greener than taking and reusing a former shell of a home? Add a power source created by nature and you have sustainable living at it's best.

As reported by Jennifer Guerra on NPR:

Then [Mitch and Gina Cope] set their sights on the foreclosed house down the street — a working class, wood frame, single family house that was listed for sale for $1,900. The house had been trashed by scrappers who stole everything, including the copper plumbing, radiators and electrical lines. Still, they decided to buy it and turn it into what Cope calls the "Power House Project."

"Our idea — instead of putting it all back and connecting to the grid, we wanted to keep it off the grid and get enough solar and wind turbines and batteries to power this house and power the next-door house," [Mitch] Cope says.

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