[Rick Lee]

We're 10 yrs into a 20 yr solar lease. Now we need either a new roof or a band-aid repair. Band-aid repair will be $2300 and would easily last for the rest of the roof's life, as it's already 28 yrs old. Full roof replacement estimate is $18k, but then there's $200-300 per solar panel to R&R that whole thing, which a roofer is not allowed to do. Of course, our solar provider is out of business now, so we'd have to find someone to do that job before and after the roof replacement. For the whole thing we're looking at probably $25k. If R&R'ing the solar panels runs $7k of that, that's about twice the amount we have saved by having solar. In fact, our power bill went down more when we put in a new AC than it did with solar. Would not do this again. False economy.