Sunday, April 19, 2015

Public/private partnership. That's Fascism, folks!-----Surprised solar customers find themselves with liens

Surprised solar customers find themselves with liens - Watchdog.org:
"Jeff Leeds says installing SolarCity’s panels on the roof of his home in the Northern California city of El Granada was the sorriest day of his life.
Agreeing to the company’s 20-year lease was like partnering with the devil, he claims.
He says he has endured skyrocketing electric bills, installation of an inferior system and contract violations because SolarCity refuses to clean the panels or to provide a payment for his system’s poor performance.
The latest surprise: a notice from his bank telling him that SolarCity had placed a lien on his home, and that his equity line of credit application could not proceed until the lien was removed.
“I was totally surprised by this and very pissed off,” Leeds said.
...SolarCity say it’s not a lien, but a “fixture filing” that stakes the company’s claim to the panels, which it owns if consumers have taken part in its popular lease program.
Owning the solar electricity-generating system allows SolarCity to claim lucrative state and federal subsidies available only to system owners.
SolarCity has received approximately $500 million in tax subsidies and grants over the years."

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