Homeowner Achieves Drastic Summer Bill Reductions and Steady Monthly Payments

I've always thought about going solar. The bills were always high. My electricity bills were always high, and was always thinking of a way to get it down, but could not afford it. And I was just home one day, and two persons showed up my door telling me about solar. I liked what they were pitching, and I went with it. I had concerns seeing that there was other persons in the area that had solar, so I didn't ... I always heard that power company wouldn't want too much on the grid, so, like, I was worried that I recently bought the house at the time, so I didn't know how old the roof was, if there was anything that would actually fail me from being qualified for it. So there was concerns. I wouldn't say surprised more and such. I loved the ... I just loved the way they corresponded with me. They were always in contact even after the installation. And the persons that I met at the initial stage showed up after to ask how was it and all that, so I just thought the customer service was great and all that, and I enjoyed it. It made sense for me because living in a home with four persons, I'm the breadwinner, the main person working. You want to have as less debt as possible just in case something should happen, you can take care of the family. When I found out that, hey, you don't have to go hunt down a loan with this big interest, you will just sign a contract, and you have a steady payment for a certain amount of years, and it won't increase by much, I was like, "This is something to really consider." My utility bills have dropped drastically in the summer. The only side trap to it is that when it gets to the winter, the utility bill increases because of where I'm living, where it's cold, so not enough sunlight, and then I still have to pay that monthly bill. But by the time you get to spring going all the way back through fall, that's a great offset. So I have probably nine months to actually put away a little to offset that major bill when it comes to the winter season, if we have a heavy winter. I think whether you're on solar or you're on the grid, you need to be trying to conserve as much as possible. It helps me when I think that, hey, you have this big project to do, or if I'm working on my car and I have to use a power tool, I'm like, "Okay, at least my bill won't spike from using this big tool." So it helps with that, but it doesn't ... Not because I'm solar means I just will then just leave things on and running and all of that. Still trying to conserve as much as possible. It's very simple. [laughs] Like I said, it's the people. They were great, always available. You could reach out at whatever time, just send a text with whatever message you want. As soon as he see it, he would respond and all that. So just the customer service and the know-how to deal with people, I would.