Adul, by leasing, do you have any issues with having to cover damages caused by nature? In other words, if you get a big old hail storm that pounds the panels half to death, or a wind storm tears them up, does the leasing company come fix them, or does it have to be covered by your home owner's policy?
I'm in north Texas, beginning of tornado alley, and while we don't see as much activity as, say, Oklahoma and points further north, we have had some hail storms and straight line winds that were pretty hairy!
I'd be interested in finding out, too, how often they'd check to see if one of the panels is not functioning correctly, or has dropped off in efficiency? Is that something your monitoring system checks? And how bad off does a panel have to be before they come out and replace it? Also, do the panels need to be washed down from time to time, to keep dust/grime build up from lowering the efficiency?
I'm a first time home owner (just closed 3 weeks ago! :awe: ), and this sort of system, with the lease, interests me.