When my grandmother moved to Florida, she asked me if I would like to buy her home. I had so many great memories in that house that I knew I had to buy it. She made me a great deal on her home but I knew I would have to put in replacement windows since the windows in it were the original ones.

I also hired a painter to paint the entire house, inside and out. What I did not know at the time of making the decision to have replacement windows put in was that I would earn an energy tax rebate. I found this out from the company that I had called to give me an estimate on having the replacement windows installed and have the old ones removed.

My grandmother had planned on moving in the spring and I had planned on having the replacement windows installed right after she moved out and before I moved in. All of the improvements would be complete in about a month’s time.

I still needed to find out from my accountant on how the energy tax rebate would work but that would be later. The painter and the replacement window company had finished all of the work in about three weeks and I moved in to my grandmother’s old home to make many new memories of my own.