Michael and Jennifer Monteiro, a Boston-area couple with two children, bought a 1980s Massachusetts beachside property as a vacation home and tore it down to convert it into a sustainable living space.
The state of Massachusetts offers incentives and rebates for homeowners to pursue greener paths of homesteading, so it’s not unheard of for its property owners to integrate sustainability into their homes. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 62.4% of residents in the state are homeowners.
However, what is undebatable is that many of those homeowners did not purchase homes for more than $1 million — but the Monteiros did…