Building homes and helping wallets- and futures

Building homes and helping wallets- and futures
By Kevin Bratcher
If someone told you that you could buy a house and end up saving money and eliminating waste, you probably wouldn’t believe them.
However, that’s precisely the idea home designer AmeriSus has in mind with its innovative new line of homes.
Charlie Kamps, managing director of AmeriSus, spoke in an interview recently about the mission of AmeriSus.
“Nobody out there seems to want to really provide the general public en masse with a house that is more affordable,” Kamps said. “[We have] gone through the effort of literally pulling out the waste in the labor and the wasted materials and converting those savings into a higher quality home.”
Kamps noted as well that they went out of their way with their house designs to avoid starting with the cheaper industry standards, which can survive longer. They have companies like Whirlpool, IKEA, and Shaw supplying high quality products for their houses.
AmeriSus’ home designs start in the $200,000 range, which may seem like a daunting price tag at first, until you consider everything included in the house and the savings AmeriSus guarantees on energy costs.
“You get a lot of house with [our designs],” Kamps said. “You get a house that will have a utility bill that is 70% less than a comparable home built by another builder. You get a home that has product in it that is really first class.”
Seventy percent might not sound like a lot to someone with an apartment, but 70% off of $2400 (based on average household energy costs in the northeastern U.S. according to U.S. Energy Information Association (EIA) statistics) per year amounts to $1680 per year in savings. That sort of savings really adds up in the long term.
In addition, AmeriSus offers a line of “net-zero” homes which use solar power to produce as much energy as they use, creating an environmentally self-contained house.
AmeriSus is primarily marketing itself toward middle-tier builders who would be building between one and one thousand homes. They are also eager to provide the very best house to individual customers looking to set up a new home.
“For 2010 our focus is on projects in the mid-Atlantic region, and by 2011 we’ll cover the 48 contiguous states,” he said. “Also by 2011 we’ll be aptly postured to accommodate individuals looking to build a vacation house or just a new house.”
In a market increasingly concerned with energy footprints, where customers have always been concerned with getting the most for their money, AmeriSus promises to be a popular and wise alternative to typical housing designs.
More information about AmeriSus can be found at their website: www.Amerisus.com