The Solar Panels Cause Conflicts with Homeowner Groups

The government wants to install solar panels on the house, and will even give you a tax credit for it.
There is a lesson Angel David Dobša discovered when her owners association north of Atlanta denied their request to install solar panels on their roofs in. The neighborhood board officials will be out of place, and can lead to lower house values ​​in the community, regulates the details as fine as tile painting and planting trees and storage bins.

Homeowner associations throughout the country were banned or severely restricted the installation of solar panels and solar industry returns to stop the practice shifted.
Twenty states now prohibit or restrict, home and condominium owners or associations of local authorities prohibiting solar panels, according to a database run by the North Carolina State University.
Angel and David Dobša support the legislation, Georgia after their run-in with the homes association.
Leaders say Vickery Sea home insurance alliance Cumming, goes the argument about architecture and aesthetics, and not the benefits of solar energy. Houses automatically accept the community rules, if they buy a house there.
Taxpayers can now deduct 30 percent of the cost of installing solar panels, its federal tax bill. Other states and municipalities offer additional incentives.
Last year, the California Court of Appeal upheld the decision to spend a few solar panels, which were in the yard without the consent of the owner to remove the association installed. Is your lawn green?
Texas passed a law last year to prevent associations from blocking home solar panels completely. David said Dobša rules required that he and his wife's permission to build a solar panel to try.

He struck first installed 30 panels on two areas in parallel to the slope of the roof.
Owners Association has made this request, and three other Dobša.

Legislators in Georgia are trying to decide a problem with the legislation in the house and flat owners association the rest of the year whether to loosen the prohibition of solar panels. Homes associations may limit the board to the roof and enclosed courtyard and patios. You can require that the tiles are installed parallel to the slope of the roof and prohibit backyard solar panels, which is more than a fence around the rose.

Even in states that owners of houses and apartments will have the right to install solar panels for home recording and home organizations and beyond.
Neighborhood leaders in Salem, Oregon, Larry Lohrman Department refused the request to install solar panels on the roof, because their rules prohibited equipment, Lohrman said. He argued successfully that the Solar Rights Act of 1979, that ban was illegal, and he and a neighbor helped the club's draft guidelines for the installation of solar panels.