The world of real estate rental is Challenging at the best of times. As we all know, there are only two ways to keep yourself ahead in the real estate game. The first is to increase your profits, which often entails increasing the rent; the other is to lower your expenses. In this competitive market, increasing your tenants’ rent can end up being an oversight, causing your tenants to go elsewhere. The market being what it is, it would be easy for them to find properties that have reduced rental rates. Consequently, if you want to stay ahead, the best way to do so is by cutting your expenses. Solar heating tubes are inexpensive and simple to install, and will reduce your heating expenses substantially.
Regardless of who your tenants are, whether you own an apartment building, an industrial building, commercial, or any other sort of building, your tenants will use hot water. Providing hot water for your building is probably one of your largest expenses. If you want to reduce your expenses this is a very good starting point. Installing solar heating tubes will help you reduce heating costs by heating some of your building’s water for free using just the sun’s rays. Unlike solar panels, solar heating tubes will operate whatever the weather so you can keep on saving money all year round.
Solar heating tubes are basically cylinders that absorb and store the suns energy. So much of the tubes’ surface is exposed to the sun, and for such a long time, that they are more effective than conventional solar panels. As a result solar energy has become a serious option in those locations where it would not have been very useful or cost effective before.
Heat from the sun is absorbed by the tubes and stored in an inner tube of liquid. That fluid super-heats to 170 degrees Fahrenheit and is then introduced to your heating system. Put simply, this means that the sun’s heat is used to warm your building’s water. Solar heating tubes also present you with an additional way to reduce heating costs; by using that heated water to heat your entire building.
Whether or not you understand the details of how they work, what is important is that solar heating tubes will help you reduce heating costs. This will give you an edge in a tough market. With climate change experts calling for companies and individuals to switch from carbon based fossil fuels to renewable forms of energy, you should seriously consider investing in solar heating rods to reduce your heating costs and increase your profit margin. Look into government programs that may defer some of the expense associated with installing solar heating rods and other environmentally friendly sources of energy production.
Of all of the benefits outfitting your building with solar heating tubes, conceivably the best benefit to installing solar heating tubes to your building comes from the satisfaction your tenants have knowing you are doing what you can to lower costs for yourself and for them. Should you be advertising for new tenants you might also find that your cost cutting measures have given you a great deal of appeal with an ever increasing number of potential environmentally conscious tenants.
Craig Axelrod is a principal for EmmyEnergy.com, a NY solar power system business installing solar heating tube systems solar energy systems & green products throughout the North East.
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