So the good thing about my neighborhood is this an older neighborhood.
It's not one of those, like, hoa neighborhoods.
Ain't no hoa.
Like, my house was built, like, 1950, and all the houses look different.
But I've noticed that some of the houses in my neighborhood are now getting solar panels.
And I have always been curious about it.
And sometimes you have people come around to your door like, do you want good solar panels?
And it's a very working class neighborhood that I live in, and I was always curious about how it actually works.
I don't want to be the first to get the solar panels in the neighborhood, right.
I want to see other people do it or have my friends do it and see how it works for them, and then I will do it.
So that's why I have not done it yet.
But rooftop solar panels are really a thing.
Across America, it's estimated 4.5 million households have panels on their roofs.
And many of them got there because of these aggressive sales tactics favored by solar companies.
Some customers say they were lured into contracts that made hefty promises, but left them with broken panels and big debt.
On today's show, we feature an episode from our friends over at Planet Money, about the darker side of residential solar power.
Here's Alana Samuels and Keith Roemer.
In 2012, Christine and John Sclera moved from New Jersey to Florida because of John's job.
That move, still a little bit of a sore subject for them.
I came down kicking and screaming, didn't want to be here.