With the stock market in peril, and the real estate market readjusting, the best investment is in your home’s performance.

What is Home Performance? The EPA created a program called Home Performance with Energy Star (HPwES. This program is for existing homes and guides contractors and consumers though the difficult process of diagnosing and fixing homes that are not performing very well. If you have high energy bills, bad indoor air quality, or uncomfortable rooms HPwES is for you. The beauty of the program is that it comes with a priority sheet which shows you which improvements will give you the faster return on investment (ROI). When the start market is not even giving you a positive ROI, energy saving home improvements are surest investment that you can make now. Most of the recommendation have a payback of less than 5 years and some as little as a year.