All quiet on the green front...so far

    As promised here a week ago, I have asked a few real estate brokers in golf course communities if there were any local reactions to people adding solar panels and other environmentally friendly architectural elements to their homes.  The question was prompted by a recent Wall Street Journal article which indicated the addition of solar panels was pitting neighbor against neighbor in some communities.
    Only at Cedar Creek in Aiken, SC, a nicely treed and friendly community with a semi-private and very reasonably priced Arthur Hills golf course, is there any official acknowledgement that homeowners might want to tinker with the look of their homes in order to conserve energy.  Cedar Creek's architectural guidelines permit the use of solar panels on the roofs of its homes, and the Cedar Creek homeowner's association is considering developing "green" policies for future construction.
    The half dozen other communities I surveyed either indicated no one had yet built green or had even inquired about it.  Somewhere, Al Gore is weeping, but we expect to see more and more solar panels as the price of going green comes down, and the price of energy continues to rise.