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Why Balcony Solar Panels Haven’t Taken Off in the US (www.wired.com)
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[–] 21 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I wanted an apartment with a balcony but they're all $500+ more a month in rent then I'm already paying.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    This isn't for filthy renters

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Having lived in a rental for many many years the inability to make small mods is SO annoying.

    But this does beg the question, who OWNS a balcony. 99% of the home owners I know have single family houses. Granted I live in the south so owning an apartment is not the norm but I assume some people own an apartment in places like New York? But I’d assume people do?

    I tried to look it up and from what I could find only about 15-17% of housing units in the US are apartments, and of those only about 15% own. So maybe 2% even have the opportunity. And this is assuming THOSE units have balconies, which I’m assuming only a small percentage of that 2% do. I’d think this is a major factor to balcony solar not taking off.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I'm paying $850/mo. for my 2-roomer, with a glassed in balcony. Would definitely forego my balcony if I could pay only 350 for it, but that's a pipedream. $500 upcharge for a balcony is nuts.

    Then again, my dear friend spontaneously got her rent increased by like $1500/month a couple years back, and that sort of practice would be illegal where I live, so I could see how charging $500 more per month for a balcony would be a thing.

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