Speaker

James Wheaton from the Energy Savers program on Small property investor cost savings programs.

For free, CNT Energy staff will assess a building and its utility bills and recommend improvements that can cut energy consumption and bills. Then Community Investment Corp. can help finance those improvements by making low-cost, seven-year loans that are, in effect, a second mortgage on a building.

CNT can help building owners choose contractors and follow up to ensure the work is yielding the expected results. So far, audits have been done on buildings containing more than 32,000 apartment units in the Chicago area. Of that sum, energy upgrades have benefited more than 10,000 units, and Community Investment Corp. has provided financing for projects affecting 3,300 of those apartments.