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Re:Solar Roof by sndean on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @05:29PM (#14311895)
Yeah, my brother just bought a pretty large house for $100k, but I guess people in rural North Carolina aren't the target buyer of solar roofs anyway.

I wonder on what price home would a $80k roof make sense? >$800k?

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Re:Solar Roof by fictioncircle on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @06:00PM (#14312117)
That sounds about right to me.

A roof that exceeds 10% of the purchase price is likely to push the house outside of the price range of buyers in the target market.

I know a friend of mine (who has a solar system, not quite the same) but basically got almost nothing for it. The aesthetics of a "Solar Roof" is better but I don't see it raising the value of the house by more than 10%.

I used their calculator using the estimates when I had my roof done last time, and it is just not economically feasible.

$60k roof vs. $6k roof.

Net of $12k savings over 30 years.

$60k over 30 years (adjusting for inflation in conservative investments) is easily going to hit $180k.

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Re:Solar Roof by pfarnsworth on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @07:47PM (#14312777)
I have a $2M house, and I've been bitching and moaning for a year that a new roof cost us $20k.
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