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Solar contract help
Every HyreSolar page for people who have signed, or are about to sign, a solar contract: cancelling, liens, selling, and failed installers.
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The short answer
Solar contract help starts with one question: who owns the system? If you own it, the questions are liens and warranties. If you lease it or buy its power, the contract decides the escalator, the transfer on sale and what happens if the company fails.
Have the contract in front of you, and find the page for your situation below. Comparing options before you sign? See solar comparisons and the solar checklists.
Before you sign, or just after
The cheapest time to fix a solar contract is before the cancellation window closes.
Solar loans and liens
A payment that jumped, a loan to clear, or a filing that will not leave the county record.
Selling, buying or moving with solar
A loan, lease or fixture filing travels with the house until someone deals with it.
When the installer or the system lets you down
Which warranty still stands, who owes you the work, and what to do first.
Your inquiry
Tell us about your home
Nothing goes to a solar professional unless you agree.
Free, with no obligation: a person reads it and gets back to you. Matching is not live yet, so this is not a quote.
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Questions
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We are a research desk, not a sales floor. We read the statute, the tariff, the code section, the federal filing or the manufacturer data sheet ourselves, and we publish the figure with the document it came from and the date we retrieved it.
Where a number cannot be traced to a primary source, we publish the shorter page and say what we could not verify. That rule has cost us whole sections, and it is why the rest can be checked.
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Information on these pages is general and varies by state, contract and your own circumstances. It is not legal, tax or financial advice. HyreSolar does not install, finance, lease or sell solar.