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Heating Older HousesCentral Massachusetts, house by house
The houses

The houses

Every Older House

The money, the rules and the paperwork are the same whichever house you own. These stories read the Mass Save rebate form slowly, explain the assessment and the loan, put the stretch code into plain words, run the winter arithmetic and show how to tell which bid actually looked at your house.

Long straight two-lane road with snow on both shoulders, utility poles on the left and old houses among bare trees on the right
Pleasant Street in South Berlin, Massachusetts, in winter.