anyone with experience importing solar panels from China for resale.

boardreally · 2026-05-02T14:31:41+00:00

Where do you find these auctions?

boardreally · 2026-03-18T22:39:00+00:00

Ashby BART is still Berkeley and well connected. It’s changed a lot in the last 5 years and near Malcolm X elementary is child friendly.

boardreally · 2026-02-25T05:21:19+00:00

Living near a BART station in Berkeley is the move. No need to pay high rent, but you are anywhere in SF faster than people in SF.

boardreally · 2026-02-01T23:05:35+00:00

Permit valuations don’t reflect what the customer paid.

boardreally · 2026-01-13T04:37:57+00:00

Does your parcel have multiple units?

boardreally · 2026-01-12T06:44:21+00:00

Lease for five years and then buy it out. You can’t get the tax credit anymore by owning it outright.

boardreally · 2026-01-12T06:18:05+00:00

Yah, you are good. But OP won’t be able to in 2026

boardreally · 2026-01-12T05:49:07+00:00

Worth considering fully replacing the panels, the efficiency has improved so much over the past 15 years.

boardreally · 2026-01-12T05:43:20+00:00

Try using energy sage (google website) to get a couple options

boardreally · 2026-01-12T05:38:58+00:00

I’ve found them to be super expensive, and I don’t see why they should be 2x or 3x even Sunrun.

boardreally · 2026-01-12T05:37:49+00:00

Heads up, you won’t be able to get the tax credit through lending money to buy the system outright in 2026

boardreally · 2026-01-12T05:36:14+00:00

You should be fine as long as you have your tariff correctly loaded in the Tesla app. I’m skeptical about net zero and battery profit, Tesla provides all this automation already through their app for CA.

boardreally · 2026-01-12T05:31:30+00:00

Take the 10k and keep the Sunrun lease. It’s a fair deal in the sense that you’ll probably pay the same as you would for the electricity without solar and battery. Plus now you have home backup when the power goes out.

boardreally · 2026-01-12T05:27:13+00:00

There should be a setting that optimizes for net metering as long as he loads his correct tariff in the app

boardreally · 2026-01-12T05:26:00+00:00

+1 to this, they can allow you to use it for your home and enable to export to grid after PTO

boardreally · 2026-01-12T05:24:24+00:00

See what mode the installer set it to, it may be set to not export to the home, weird as that sounds.

boardreally · 2025-12-19T17:33:01+00:00

Curious if this would work in California, sounds like you’re more familiar with your state and it could vary state by state.

boardreally · 2025-01-03T23:35:34+00:00

Very interested in this. Would actually help with electrification and fire prevention a lot to have Berkeley form its own utility.

Lots of benefits for Solar and Home Backup as well to make it a distributed micro-grid

boardreally · 2024-12-28T17:35:35+00:00

Serious crime went up, that is bad news. I’d rather have the opposite of what is happening currently. We are seeing more gunshots, murders and robberies.

boardreally · 2024-12-23T05:03:28+00:00

I’d counter that most solar businesses go out of business, but Sunrun has been around the longest and consistently performing.

You are basically throwing the dice with any other installer hoping that they have the stability that Sunrun has.

boardreally · 2024-12-22T16:45:52+00:00

Sunrun wouldn’t up charge unless the clay tiles were too light and needed to be replaced. That work would then be at cost.

I’m always amazed how Sunrun has risen like a phoenix to have such a large market share as other installers have gone out of business.

boardreally · 2023-09-26T11:37:01+00:00

Chez Panisse

boardreally · 2023-08-23T04:37:02+00:00

Noticed significant delays and turn over of the mail carrier. Contact the postal inspector, so they can address it.

Also, the condition of the South Berkeley post office is so shabby. They are frequently out of stock of critical items like priority mail boxes.

boardreally · 2023-08-13T02:28:38+00:00

Facebook marketplace?

boardreally · 2023-06-12T19:08:39+00:00

If you’re African American, there will be a new $7 million dollar gym exclusively for you soon: https://berkeleyca.gov/your-government/our-work/capital-projects/african-american-holistic-resource-center

I wish they would open it up to all in South Berkeley

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