See our list of homes for sale in the neighborhood.

Browse the homes for sale in Emerson Heights, including photos and interior tours.
Single Homes Listed for Sale in Emerson Heights

Or consider purchasing a duplex and living on one side and renting the other:
Duplexes Listed For Sale in Emerson Heights

For more information about the neighborhood, see our Neighborhood Profile.



Updated 6/18/10

State program offers rebates for new furnaces and A/C.

The State announced its program for rebates on energy heating and cooling systems today. The Indiana Heating and Air-Conditioning Incentive Program (IHIP) is Indiana’s State Energy-Efficient Appliance Rebate Program, approved by the U.S. Department of Energy to provide Hoosier homeowners with rebates for the purchase of ENERGY STAR® qualified heating and cooling systems.

The program offers $300 rebates on gas furnaces that have a 92% AFUE rating, for example.

This program can be combined with rebates from Citizen's Gas as well as the 30% federal energy tax credit.


Many of the homes in Emerson Heights still have older gas furnaces that are only 60% efficient rather than the 92-95% efficient that are common today. As much as 40 cents of every heating dollar is wasted with these older systems. Besides being inefficient, any furnace with a pilot light is at least 30 years old, at the end of its useful life and hurts the resale value of the home.

Both the state and federal program are stimulus funds and therefore are for a limited time. Be sure to understand the equipment requirements as well as the other limitations of these programs.

For energy saving tips, see "Emerson Heights, A Green Neighborhood"

Use the Emerson Heights promotional material to help "sell the neighborhood" along with the house.

Place some of our fliers on the kitchen counter or with the Fact Sheet for the house. Also give one to your Realtor so that they know some of the selling points of the neighborhood.

You may either print these from the PDF file or you may request color printed versions from webmaster@emersonheights.org




Download "A Neighborhood You Can Both Love"





Download "Minutes to the Theater"


Neighborhood brochure:

This attractive brochure lets prospective buyers know about the good things that are happening in the neighborhood and why a home in Emerson Heights is a good investment. It prints on legal size paper in landscape format.

Download Emerson Heights brochure

Be patient, this is a large file (22 meg).


You will need acrobat reader.

A series of articles about ways that we can reduce energy consumption, save money and reduce the impact on the environment.

There are many features of our neighborhood that help it to stand-out, that make it special and make our homes potentially more desirable and marketable. A priority this year will be to bring more attention to how well our neighborhood lends itself to being “Green”.

To highlight the green nature of our neighborhood, we will feature a series of articles in the newsletter and website about energy saving products, materials and other ways that we can reduce energy consumption, save money and reduce the impact on the environment. This fall, we hope to have an open house to show off at least some of these energy saving products and techniques.

~See: Emerson Heights - A Green Neighborhood~

Emerson Heights is fortunate to be served by a variety of good schools with a proven track record of academic performance. Parents can choose from a menu of schools that offer innovative teaching styles, extended school days, enhanced art and music programs, focused curriculum and an emphasis on leadership and values—just to name a few of the possible options. Because these schools vary greatly in their teaching styles and emphasis, parents are encouraged to visit and learn about these schools in order to find the best fit for their child. Several of these schools are located very near the neighborhood.

Some of the school choices include:

More...

This year the Federal Energy Tax Credits have changed. For many investments the tax credit is now 30% of the installed cost up to a maximum of $1,500.

What this means is that a homeowner installing the qualifying items will receive almost a third of the cost back as a tax credit.
Items include:

-High efficiency gas furnaces
-High efficiency Air Conditioning
-Tankless water heaters
-Insulation
-Storm Doors and Windows

Many of the homes in Emerson Heights still have older gas furnaces that are only 65% efficient rather than the 92-95% efficient that are common today. Most of our homes only have a few inches of attic insulation as well. Blowing in cellulose attic insulation is potentially even a DIY job.

If your utility bills are excessive, you may want to consider taking advantage of these tax credits—particularly if you need a new furnace, water heater, or air conditioning anyway.

In addition, Citizen's Gas is offering rebates on high efficiency gas appliances.

The State is also offering rebates on efficient heating and air conditioning.

Be sure to review the specific efficiency requirements as well as talking to your tax adviser so that you understand what is covered by this credit.

Details on the Federal Energy Tax Credits

Go to "Emerson Heights-A Green Neighborhood"

A way to lend small amounts of capital, Neighbor to Neighbor.

A group has been formed on Prosper.com to provide capital for small businesses on the near-eastside (NESCO's Boundaries).

The money comes from people on the near-eastside who are willing to invest small amounts ($50-100 is typical). When enough lenders have committed their funds, the loan is underwritten.

For more information, see the enclosed flier.

Micro-Loan_Flier.pdf

Our neighborhoods, including Emerson Heights, Little Flower and Irvington have done a significant amount of work to replace trees in the neighborhood. Tree plantings have been done with Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc. and supported by volunteers.

Here is some excellent technical information about urban tree planting and preserving trees during development.
The documents are produced by the US Forestry Service and are very high quality.

Urban Tree Planting Guide

Urban Tree Risk Management

Urban Watershed and Conserving and Planting Trees

A new Noise Ordinance for Indianapolis was signed into law in Feb of 2006.


What do boom cars, fireworks, children playing and cell phone conversations all have in common? According to the Revised Noise Ordinance for the City of Indianapolis (Article III, Section 391-301-303), given the time of day and environment, they are all examples of unreasonable noise. Fines for unreasonable noise are $50 for the first offense, $250 for the second, and $500 for the third (within a 12-month period). Additionally, the ticket can be issued to the property owner.

But, before you start thinking that the City of Indianapolis has gone too far in regulating “children playing” or controlling the use of your cell-phone (or free speech for that matter), consider what the new ordinance says. Rather than using a device that measures decibels to determine what is noise, the city has now defined Unreasonable Noise as:

“Sound that is of a volume, frequency, or pattern that prohibits, disrupts, injures, or endangers the health, safety, welfare, prosperity, comfort, or repose of reasonable persons of ordinary sensitivities within the city, given the time of day and environment in which the sound is made.”

And, there are no intentions of limiting First Amendment Free Speech rights because the ordinance states:

“That the sole intent of the provisions of this chapter is declared to be, as a matter of legislative determination for this declaration of public policy, to secure and promote the health, safety, welfare, prosperity, comfort, and repose of persons in this city by reducing unreasonable noise, and a determination of violation of this chapter may not be based on the content of any message conveyed during the creation of any noise or the identity of any person responsible for or associated with the creation of any noise.”


Unreasonable noise can occur 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Unreasonable noise can be from sources such as car horns, loud stereos or radios, people yelling or screaming, and vendor’s vehicles (ice cream trucks). Below is a digest you can print out to place on your refrigerator.

If you experience unreasonable noise, ask the offender(s) to either turn the noise down or stop the noise. If they do not comply, call the police non-emergency number at 327-3811. According to Sheriff Frank Anderson “the law is the law.” Therefore, if a responding officer tells you that it is not worth their time to ticket a $50 offense, you may ask him if he would give the same response if Sheriff Anderson were calling. You may also ask the officer how he knows that the offender doesn’t already have the $50 ticket. The price of the first ticket may be only $50, but for neighborhoods and communities---well, you’ve HEARD it before, the ticket is priceless.

Below are copies of the Indianapolis Noise Ordinance and a handy digest:

Prop_50_approved_2-13-06.doc

Noise_Digest.pdf