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Seen great house but has leased solar panels

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  • GDB2222
    GDB2222 Posts: 26,236 Forumite
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    You know that you are probably not going to get this property, don't you?
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • DKLS
    DKLS Posts: 13,461 Forumite
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    GDB2222 wrote: »
    You know that you are probably not going to get this property, don't you?

    I do, and it doesn't really matter, this house is great but the panels are a deal breaker for us, I can wait a couple of months for the market to refresh and there will be another house that ticks the majority of requirements we have.
  • DKLS
    DKLS Posts: 13,461 Forumite
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    Update: Apparently I can buy the panels for 20k or pay the solar company to remove the panels and compensate them for the lost income from the feed in tariff "which they would have to calculate and get back to me"

    After his attempts at high pressure sales techniques and guilt tripping about polar bears and the future of my children ( which I don't have) I wouldn't want to give him a penny of my dosh for his snake oil technology.

    So decision made we will not be making an offer and will start looking in a few months.
  • theartfullodger
    theartfullodger Posts: 15,704 Forumite
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    Is it just me or are others pleased to find the greedy b+++yards who were being subsidised by you and me for these uneconomic & ugly stupidities are finding it difficult to flog their defaced & damaged residences??
  • inmypocketnottheirs
    inmypocketnottheirs Posts: 4,745 Forumite
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    Out if interest what is the problem with cheap electricity?
    Don't lie, thieve, cheat or steal. The Government do not like the competition.
     The Lord Giveth and the Government Taketh Away.
     I'm sorry, I don't apologise. That's just the way I am. Homer (Simpson)
  • mildred1978
    mildred1978 Posts: 3,367 Forumite
    inmypocketnottheirs wrote: »
    Out if interest what is the problem with cheap electricity?

    Apart from the fact that they cost far more energy to make than they'll ever harness??
    Science adjusts its views based on what's observed.
    Faith is the denial of observation, so that belief can be preserved.
    :A Tim Minchin :A
  • Harry_Flashman
    Harry_Flashman Posts: 1,922 Forumite
    mildred1978 wrote: »
    Apart from the fact that they cost far more energy to make than they'll ever harness??

    But those who have them fitted to their house are laughing all the way to the bank.
  • mildred1978
    mildred1978 Posts: 3,367 Forumite
    Harry_Flashman wrote: »
    But those who have them fitted to their house are laughing all the way to the bank.

    Are they? My new neighbour owns a company flogging them. From the amount of bling he has I think it's them who's laughing.

    I'd far rather have £20k in index linked bonds than sat depreciating on my roof (while saving me a few pennies a day - perhaps).
    Science adjusts its views based on what's observed.
    Faith is the denial of observation, so that belief can be preserved.
    :A Tim Minchin :A
  • Harry_Flashman
    Harry_Flashman Posts: 1,922 Forumite
    mildred1978 wrote: »
    Are they?

    They certainly are - that's why the government has decided to lower the amounts paid.
  • mildred1978
    mildred1978 Posts: 3,367 Forumite
    Harry_Flashman wrote: »
    They certainly are - that's why the government has decided to lower the amounts paid.

    Maths must have changed a lot since I was at school then!!
    Science adjusts its views based on what's observed.
    Faith is the denial of observation, so that belief can be preserved.
    :A Tim Minchin :A
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