How to List

Welcome to Listing your property.

Listing your property is an easy experience. Please take time to visit the appropriate pages below

1. To the Seller

2. To the buyer

3. Real Estate Salesman

4. Sending pictures

Every property is unique. Earth House is a very unique web site so we have a match made in heaven and hopefully resolved on earth.

Since I began work on Earth House in late 1997 I have sought an audience and I have sought a purpose. When I began I did not see the full picture of what I wanted to accomplish. One was to provide people with a home.

Unfortunately, at that time, I did not have the means or resources. I went out and tried to find people but most were busy with their own lives. Then for some reason people started sending me images of their home and properties. I put them up and was surprised that people started coming and people wrote and told me their homes were selling.

I found that Earth House became part of a circle that was unique to the Internet. A real site for alternative homes. And though there are a number of other sites that have sprung up since we've continued to work as steadily as possible building up Earth House day by day, month by month until here we are ten years later.

The fact is we are in a unique place and we can and do now provide people with thousands of interested visitors each month. The great majority of our visitors are from the United States and so it goes that the majority of our listings are from the USA as well. If you are from another country you are most welcome to write. Please know we will list any alternative, off grid, or exceptional property you might have for sale.

Now some people want to know what I do. I provide an avenue that didn't have a name before. It is called Earth House and we are the avenue you can now use to showcase your home/property/acreage. We don't charge a price but we do accept variable donations based on what I will call the selling price of the home. So think of it this way. Most don't consider the middle man. That is me. I don't charge but I also don't force the issue

Be sure to visit 'to the seller' (to the cellar-just a play on words for the Earth sheltered crowd.) for the best way to send us information.

Now it is important for people to realize that Earth House is a listing service. We do not personally sell the homes nor do we provide building or architectural work or provide products. Someday that might change but at present it is the important thing to remember. We provide an online service only. And that means we are the guy who provides a way for your listing to be seen.

Listing with us doesn't tie your hands. We provide you with an alternative service. It is one that gives you an outlet not generally available. Use it if you have an alternative home or acreage.

And if you list with an Real Estate professional please be courteous and let both them and us know. That way I can add their listing link at the end of the page I build for you.

I do hope you will send us your listing. We enjoy hearing from people from around the world. We live in a world filled with amazing wonders and meeting many of you has been a wonderfully amazing thing.

Remember to keep dreaming. Even when you sell one dream remember there are many more wonders in the world to see and even to help create.

Write me

Joel Akin

Earthhouse@gmail.com

Why list your alternative home with us?

Those who have studied the news have seen interest in homes that save you money skyrocketing in interest. People are beginning to demand that builders build with green features. A recent survey showed that 90% of Americans want solar power as a standard feature of their new home. Other features are wanted but unfortunately there is a huge gap in knowledge. There are many who would want an alternative house but this gap hasn't been filled. There are huge areas of the country where people remain ignorant of green homes even while talking about putting green into their homes. They speak of carbon footprint but to a person who has striven for decades to be alternative that is a person who traipses ashes from the fireplace and not someone who speaks against burning wood.

So in a way this website is a small attempt to bridge that knowledge gap. We see it everywhere we go. People who claim to be ecology minded yet are the first to stand up against building a home that is intended to be a true return to the earth.

So those who find us are the ones who often have knowledge already. They are people who are wanting more information and are interested in this type of home. And that is a home which is earth sheltered, rammed earth, straw baled, green roofed with a root cellar and off grid and able to survive a storm or weeks without food.

And when you are the only site of its kind with ten years of input then you who are a seller of your alternative home or sustainable acreage know you've reached the right place. And having reached the right place means you can count on us to be an important view source for the selling of alternative properties.

So send us your listing. Send us your pictures. Write us with your descriptions. And know that you are getting a very specific audience of those who dream of owning an alternative home and often are willing to move specifically to own such a home.

Earthhouse@gmail.com