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Simple Ways to Cool Your Home and Save Big

Posted on July 2, 2013 | Leave a comment

attic fans, ceilings

One of the easiest ways to keep your cool in the summer is to use fans. In addition to moving air around, which makes us feel cooler, fans can, if properly located, purge heat from a house and draw in cool outside air. Moreover, fans use less energy than central air conditioners and evaporative coolers, and are less expensive to install. Fans can dramatically lower utility bills by reducing the need to use air conditioning.

Will fans add value to your home? Contact the real estate appraisers at www.scappraisals.com for your value questions.

Follow these links for information on specific fan types:
Ceiling Fans: A Simple Cooling Method
Solar Attic Fans: Cool Your Attic and Your Home
Whole-house Fans: Easy, Low-cost Cooling

What Will You Save?

A regular attic fan uses electricity, but saves about 10 percent on air conditioning costs by keeping your attic (and, as a result, the living space below it) cooler. Solar-powered attic fans have a higher initial cost.

A ceiling or portable floor fan will cut your energy costs if you have central air conditioning — if you raise the thermostat setting. For every degree you turn it up, you will cut 7 to 10 percent from your cooling costs.

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San Diego; Want To Appeal Property Taxes? The County Says The Time is Now!!

Posted on July 1, 2013 | Leave a comment

San Diego property owners who disagree with their assessed value can appeal it as long as they have information to support a lower value. Those applications can be turned in to the county tax accessor’s office between July 2 and November 30. You can request forms by calling 619-531-5777 or visiting www.sdcounty.ca.gov/cob

What kind of information will support a lower value? An appraisal!! Contact the appraisers at www.scappraisals.com for your appraisal and value questions.

What Now that San Onofre is Shut Down? Cost for Ratepayers Remain Unclear

Posted on July 1, 2013 | Leave a comment

A future without nuclear energy has been on the drawing board for Southern California since a radiation leak shut down San Onofre in January 2012.

With the recent announcement of the facility’s permanent retirement, diverse architects of the state’s power grid are acting on those plans.

Utility executives last week resubmitted a previously spurned application for a major new natural-gas plant on the southern outskirts of San Diego, as engineers look to shore up power supplies across an area larger than the state of Maryland.

Would a new power plant in Otay Mesa effect property values? What if they put a power plant at Miramar? Contact the appraisers at www.scappraisals.com for your value questions.

Any solutions will have to navigate increasing technological challenges and a complex landscape of environmental and clean-energy mandates in California.

The cost implications are unclear for ratepayers, who already are underwriting the state’s aggressive green-energy makeover. Utility engineers in San Diego County and the Los Angeles Basin are studying how to make up for San Onofre, which generated enough electricity to power 1.4 million homes.