The Virginia Beach real estate market has it’s fair share of luxury homes.

They may not be ranches on hundreds of acres similar to the homes below, but the homes below don’t have waterfront settings with breath taking views either.

Take a look at the homes below and guess who owns each one… 

House #1 A 20-room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house, all heated by gas. In one month this residence consumes more energy than the average American household does in a year. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2400 per month. In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home.

This house is not situated in a Northern or Midwestern “snow belt” area. It’s in the South.

House #2 Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university. This house incorporates every “green” feature current home construction can provide. The house is 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on a high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat-pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer.

The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas and it consumes one-quarter the electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000-gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape.

Now, for the clincher: HOUSE #1 is outside of Nashville, Tennessee; it is the abode of the “environmentalist” Al Gore. HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas; is the residence of the President of the United States, George W. Bush. Is this an “inconvenient truth?”

You can verify it at: http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp

Now to get back to Virginia Beach luxury homes. if this is the kind of setting you are looking for, we can help.

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