A resource hub for condominium, cooperative, and HOA communities
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About the Book
Green as a Lifeline is a practical playbook for condominium, co-op, and HOA communities facing rising fees, aging buildings, insurance pressure, underfunded reserves, and a new wave of building energy performance laws. Written for the people who actually carry these decisions—condo owners, boards, and the managers and management companies who run these communities, alongside the banks, CDFIs, and green banks that finance them and the climate-minded engineers and contractors who do the work—the book shows how capital planning, financing, and energy upgrades fit together as a single strategy. Done right, that strategy does more than keep a building compliant: it lowers long-term costs, protects property values, attracts cheaper capital, and reduces the risk of unnecessary special assessments. The green work isn't a burden bolted onto the budget—it's the lever that makes the rest of the math work.
This is not a theory book. It's a field guide drawn from real communities and real numbers—written for owners, boards, managers, lenders, engineers, and the jurisdictions writing energy performance laws, all of whom need answers before the next equipment failure, compliance deadline, reserve gap, or major assessment arrives.
Who This Book Is For
Condo, co-op, and HOA owners who want to understand why their costs are rising — and what their community can actually do about it.
Boards making responsible long-term decisions without overwhelming the owners they answer to.
On-site managers and the management companies behind them — navigating repairs, reserves, fees, contractors, and owner expectations.
Lenders financing aging multifamily buildings — conventional banks, CDFIs, and green banks alike.
Climate-friendly engineers and contractors, and the energy advisors guiding the work.
Jurisdictions weighing or already rolling out Building Energy Performance laws.
Anyone serious about sustainability and energy conservation across common-ownership housing.
About the Author
Rokas Beresniovas structures financing for condominium, co-op, and HOA communities, helping buildings fund major capital improvements, improve energy performance, and strengthen long-term financial resilience. He works in the public-purpose green banking sector, where he has helped deploy hundreds of millions of dollars in capital for projects that support housing, sustainability, and community development.
Over the course of his career, he has worked at the intersection of finance, real estate, and renewable energy, helping communities address aging infrastructure, reserve challenges, rising operating costs, and increasingly complex regulatory requirements. He also serves on a local building performance board and has firsthand experience as a condominium owner involved in building improvement initiatives.
Drawing on real-world transactions and lessons from the field, Green as a Lifeline provides practical guidance for board members, property managers, lenders, engineers, contractors, and policymakers seeking to protect property values, reduce long-term costs, and build communities that last.
What Industry Leaders Are Saying
“Most boards walk into a bank with a problem. This book teaches them to walk in with a plan—and a plan is what gets funded. It's the one I wish every board had read before they reached our door.”
—Chris Cucci, CCIM, President & Chief Lending Officer, B2 Bank
“The key to unlocking energy efficiency for condominiums isn't technical, financial, or legal; it's human. This book helps practitioners understand how to solve the problem and make real progress.”
—Adam Landsman, CEM, AMS, CMCA, President, Landsman Building Performance Services
“I have had to tell strong buyers I could not finance a condo unit—not because of them, but because of the building behind it. This book shows boards how to keep that from happening.”
—Will Williams, Managing Partner, First Washington Mortgage
“An essential guide for community associations facing rising costs, aging buildings, and hard decisions about what comes next.”
—Jeanne Anderegg, Condominium Board President, Greater Washington, D.C.