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Default HOAs: "No solar panels for you"

On Apr 25, 7:47*am, "HeyBub" wrote:
"The government wants you to install solar panels at your house, and will
even give you a tax break to do it. But your neighbors? Maybe not. It's a
lesson Angel and David Dobs discovered when their homeowners association
north of Atlanta denied their request to install solar panels on their roof.
Neighborhood officials said the panels would look out of place and might
lower home values..."

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/s...-homeowner-gro...




"They're just afraid that someone's going to put up this big, honking
ugly thing that reflects light and just looks ugly," he said.

Which sounds like a legitimate concern to me. I've
yet to see one installed that didn't look ugly. If you
put it on the back side of your house where no one
else can see it, then it has no effect on neighbors.
But I've seen them put right on the front of houses.
And IMO it does lower the property value.