<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">For the record, the straw bale house we designed in Mill Valley sold for 33% over the asking price about 4 years ago. <div><br></div><div>Anni Tilt<br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Skia; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(216, 121, 42); font-size: 9px; ">510.528.9830</span></span></span></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span></span></span></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#D8792A" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; color: rgb(216, 121, 42); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(216, 121, 42); font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(216, 121, 42); font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(216, 121, 42); font-size: 9px; ">510.528.0206 fax</span></span></span></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span></span></span></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#D8792A" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; color: rgb(216, 121, 42); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(216, 121, 42); font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(216, 121, 42); font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(216, 121, 42); font-size: 9px; "><a href="http://www.arkintilt.com">www.arkintilt.com</a></span></span></span></span></font></div></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On Nov 25, 2008, at 7:24 PM, bill c wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>There are hundreds of homes listed in the strawbale registry <<a href="http://sbregistry.greenbuilder.com/">http://sbregistry.greenbuilder.com/</a>> which have received conventional mortgages. I have not heard one report of a lender refusing to be the secondary lender, and I would find it hard to believe that there weren't many SB homes' mortgages which haven't sold on the secondary market. I don't have hard evidence of that, but perhaps it's time to send a query to the list of registerees and ask them. Or perhaps just the owners of SBs in the appropriate state or region for starters.<br><br><br><br>On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:57:09 -0700<br> "Ben Yeomans" <<a href="mailto:ben@redfeather.org">ben@redfeather.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hello All,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> We’re looking into funding options for our home applicants on the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Northern Cheyenne reservation. The local bank that we are working with<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">doesn’t think they can find a secondary lender for a SB home. She included<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the following in her last email and we don’t have any examples to point her<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">“Do you know of any homes that you have done in the past, if they were sold<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">on the secondary market to any special investor, say FNMA or Freddy Mac, or<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Sun Trust, maybe Chase, etc”<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Any suggestions on how best to proceed?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Ben<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Ben Yeomans<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Community Build Associate<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Red Feather Development Group<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">P.O. 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