I own my place but only the floor. I'm in a 2-unit condo, so I don't own the roof per se. That means if the guy upstairs has a toilet overflow, I get the downstream effects (that happened; not fun).

I wish I had a standalone home (floor to roof and all in between) - especially in an area where the retrofits from the article were possible. I've been 11 years in my current place and now I _really_ know what to look for next time.

I suppose it's like anything: once you've spent enough time to see how small cracks will widen; enough time to know what gutter configurations will cause; where the architecture might collect rain and cause flooding; where rodents can find ingress -- once you're pretty battle-worn, a new house shines different.

My wife is looking at places and because I've run maintenance, we look at things quite differently.

In the same position. There's very few 'green tech' options for apartment dwellers.

It all has the prerequisite of owning a large and very expensive home. You need significant space for a solar(+battery) installation. Or for a heat pump.

Charging an EV at home requires you to have a garage or driveway, and we all know that public chargers are going to do a massive bait+switch, hiking prices way up once companies running them have established local monopolies and demand has built up.

Even a bike or e-scooter can be a pain to own without secure storage space if you've got to carry it up/down stairs each time you want to use it.

Have a look for cooperative solar farm schemes. There might be a local one or a state/national one you can invest into to offset your electricity bill. There are more popular in the EU and UK but they are bound to come to the USA due to how cheap Solar is for power now.