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"Chanpory Rith, a 42-year-old product designer at the software company
Airtable, bought a house in Berkeley, California with his partner at the end of
2020. The couple wasn’t planning to buy, but when Covid hit and they began
working from their one-bedroom San Francisco apartment, they developed a new
hobby: browsing listings on Zillow and Redfin — “real estate porn,” as Rith
put it.
Their pandemic fantasizing soon became a pandemic fairy tale: They fell for a
five-bedroom midcentury home in the Berkeley hills with views of San Francisco
Bay and put down an offer. “And then came the joys and tribulations of
homeownership,” Rith said.
One of those tribulations began with a plan to install solar panels. Rith
didn’t consider himself a diehard environmentalist, but he was concerned about
climate change and wanted to do his part to help. He didn’t have a car but
planned on eventually getting an electric vehicle and also wanted to swap out
the house’s natural-gas appliances for electric versions. Getting solar panels
would be a smart first step, he figured, because it might trim his utility
bills. But Rith soon found out that the house’s aging electrical panel would
need to be upgraded to support rooftop solar. And he had no idea how hard it
would be to find someone to do it."
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
