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oldhippie

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4. Where are you?
Wed May 22, 2013, 02:20 PM
May 2013

I keep looking for them around here (Central Texas) and there just aren't any (except mine.)

I have been a PV advocate for decades. Even do a little consulting in the business, but I can't believe the resistance I run into when talking to homeowners and real estate agents. And it's never about the costs, because I can usually show them a positive rate of return by almost any criteria. The objection is usually "they're ugly", "it's a pain in the ass to deal with", "I won't recover the costs when I sell", and "it will make the roof leak."

Granted, we don't have the super state incentives like California and some other states, but still ...

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