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This Company Wants to Rent Out Tiny Homes in Your Backyard

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Would you sign a 99 year lease to rent out your backyard? What if it meant you would receive a steady income from it? According to Fast Company, backyard cottages are relatively common in California, but rent out at market rate. Backyard cottages are already relatively common in California. cbroderick.

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Transforming shopping malls into 21st century neighborhoods

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With the State of California encouraging housing development in commercial zones, these projects are prime opportunities for alleviating the housing crisis. Rarely are mall properties owned by a singular entity and they come with handfuls of long-term lease agreements with retailers.

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Energy Innovation: Solar Energy Solutions Continue to Gain Momentum

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Located on 10 acres in a Denver suburb, it serves some 500 low-income homes. . Still, in California alone, 42 municipalities have adopted all-electric building codes. Advocates noted farmers are paid to lease the land, and animals can graze beneath the solar panels. In the city of Davis, Calif., “New In Montgomery County, Md.,

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Black Gold Rush

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While Dakotans have been thriving up North, few states were hit harder by the national downturn than California. Last year, a State Budget Crisis Task Force headed by former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker estimated California’s long-term debt at a staggering $370 billion. Map of U.S. shale gas and shale oil plays as of May 9, 2011.

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M&V, MBCx, WTF: Building Performance Monitoring as a Means to Achieve Decarbonization Goals

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Measurement and Verification (M&V) generally refers to the installation of submeters and the consumption/demand of all incoming energy sources onsite. For building owners and operators, obtaining tenant consumption may be difficult without a mechanism requiring it like green lease language.

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AEE WEST 2023: Building Performance Monitoring

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Measurement and Verification (M&V) generally refers to the installation of submeters and the consumption/demand of all incoming energy sources onsite. For building owners and operators, obtaining tenant consumption may be difficult without a mechanism requiring it like green lease language.

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Industry Focus – Retail: Less Than Six Degrees of Separation

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The health of this industry is a vital economic indicator since sales tend to be driven by personal income, consumer confidence and interest rates. Lower gas prices are creating more discretionary income to save, pay down debt and spend on travel, eating out and personal services. QUITE SIMPLY, HESPERIA WORKS FOR BUSINESS.

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