Disaster-Proof Off-Grid Homes Already Survived Two Hurricanes; Plus No Electric Bills
These million-dollar homes in Florida are disaster-proof and residents enjoy no electric bills.
According to Business Insider,
- A new community of net-zero homes in Florida is being marketed as nearly disaster-proof.
- The homes at Hunters Point, which start at $1.4 million, have already withstood two hurricanes.
- “We built these homes to be able to deal with the climate crisis,” said developer Marshall Gobuty.
Florida faces a crisis of rising insurance costs in the face of increasing extreme weather. Already, major insurers have pulled out of the state and Floridians have been hit with skyrocketing home-insurance bills.
One solution, said real-estate developer Marshall Gobuty, is to build more resilient homes.
“People say they build to code, and my answer is ‘Great,'” he told Business Insider. “Building over code and doing things that haven’t been done — that’s something to be proud of.”
Enter Hunters Point. An 86-unit community in Cortez, Florida, a hour south of Tampa, created by Gobuty’s company, Pearl Homes. Residents first moved into the net-zero single-family homes in 2022, and they have withstood two hurricanes so far while also producing more energy than they consume.
