Fuel Prices

OverlanderJK

Resident Smartass
It's not a big deal if you know that going in. I know I'll have to pay it off at the time of my sale. This is why you add it into the listing price of your home. In CA a paid for system can add anywhere between $3000-$6000 per kw of the system. Mine is 9.75kw. You do the math...haha. It's very easy to not know what your getting into though. Sad thing is my coworker who just moved to Southern UT pays less than half for electricity as what we pay in CA. Utilities are a wild world. Don't even get me started on water...haha.
You think that system adds $60,000 to the value of your house? Lol Jesus, the drugs must be good in the high desert.
 

wayoflife

Administrator
Staff member
I love it when people who have financed solar go to sell their homes and freak out when they realize the solar company has a second deed of trust and gets paid from the proceeds of the sale.
LOL - really?? I honestly did not know that. What a fuckin joke!
 

jesse3638

Hooked
You think that system adds $60,000 to the value of your house? Lol Jesus, the drugs must be good in the high desert.
No not $60k especially here in the HD. Just pointing out there is added value in it. Also what Sharkey said is very accurate it can have a lot of unintended consequences, especially if you didn't do your homework on it.
 

AZVAJKU

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benatc1

Hooked
We were pitched solar by 3 different companies and ultimately decided not to, mainly because of the separate loan, interest, and not planning to be in this house for more than 10 years, I didn’t see the value in the home to equal the 20k it would have cost, One thing I found interesting was I got 3 different costs for essentially the same thing, not terribly far off, but around 20k, but my neighbor got a quote from one of the companies for 60k for the same system/batteries ect, but then told me his bill is about 3x mine a month, he has 4 kids, a pool, ect. So these companies are just making your payment the “same” as your bill so it sounds good, they work the #s, i can see the value In it based on what the total cost is and how expensive energy is, one of my old bosses went solar and paid 45k but his electric bill was already 600 a month in CA, and with the rate of inflation and him planning to die in that house it made sense, regardless it wasn’t for us for several reasons, and I hate paying these high gas prices, but I can buy a lot of gas for my current car for what an electric one runs these days..
 

Brute

Hooked
Gas in the UK is now over $8.00 a gal (4 litres)...in France over $7.00, and in Norway over $10.00...
 
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