Home solar built around your bill, not our sales quota

Most homes we design fall between 6 and 13 kW, roughly 14 to 30 modern panels. The number comes from your last 12 months of kilowatt-hours, not your square footage. We pull your usage history from your utility, model your roof's tilt, azimuth and shading, then size the array to the offset that makes financial sense. Sometimes that's 100%. In a state with poor export credit, it's often 80%.

Not when they're flashed properly. Every penetration we make uses a flashed mount sealed under the shingle course above it, not a bead of caulk on top. We warranty those penetrations for 25 years, which is the same length as the array warranty and considerably longer than most competitors, who exclude roof leaks after year 10.

It doesn't disappear. You stay connected to the grid, so you keep paying a monthly service charge (typically $10–$25) and any minimum-bill or grid-access fee your utility charges solar customers. What goes away is the energy portion. A typical Mr. Legit Solar customer's bill goes from $210 a month to somewhere between $15 and $45.

It varies enormously, which is why we model your specific rate schedule. Arizona and Nevada use reduced export rates rather than full retail credit, so batteries and load-shifting matter more. California's NEM 3.0 pays a fraction of retail for exports, which makes storage close to mandatory for a good return. New Mexico and Colorado still offer stronger credit. Your proposal shows the actual tariff math.

Owned systems generally do; leased systems generally complicate a sale. Appraisers commonly use the income approach, valuing the system at the present value of the electricity it will produce. The practical advice: if you might sell within five years, buy the system outright or use a loan you can pay off at closing, and keep your production reports, buyers and appraisers ask for them.

Very little. Panels have no moving parts. In dusty parts of Arizona and Nevada we recommend rinsing the array once or twice a year; elsewhere, rain handles it. What actually needs attention is monitoring . A single failed optimizer or a tripped breaker can quietly cost you hundreds a year. Our monitoring watches for that and we get in touch, rather than waiting for you to notice.