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Originally Posted by #-3
Getting new shingles because of the hail storm.
So I think I'm going to take the plunge into solar, and I'm finding the greener homes loan process frustrating.
The government is trying to make adoption of this type of technology easier and cheaper, but they make you pay a private company $700 for an energy assessment to access the program. Still a great deal to pay $700 down to access a 10 year interest free loan, but has there every been anything as government as making me take a day off work to pay a guy $700 to walk around my house and write recommendations so that I can buy something I already know I want, and the lender already knows qualifies for it's program.
I welcome someone letting me know there is a very good reason for it, but face value it just seems like bureaucratic nonsense to limit the accessibility of the program, because they want this program to exist for political reasons, but not too much of this program for budgetary reasons.
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At the end of the day these programs are intended to be job creation. If they simply provided the grants without needing to pay someone to walk through your house, there wouldn't be much of a positive economic impact.
A buddy was just telling me about this last night and they're going to skip the assessment. They have a very small home with a small installation planned. The $800 fee was going to account for more than 10% of the project cost so he didn't feel it was worth it.