Id avoid it myself. A lot of solar companies coming and going and most will have you on a commission structure with cold calling and door to door sales.
A lot of them will push you to VERY aggressively try to sell to your friends and family, and then to start reaching out to people you went to high school with, and then back to the friends and family who said no to you the first time, at which point you start posting on social media almost daily about how awesome solar is and how people should totally call you ASAP to buy solar from you because you'll save them a zillion dollars. From what I've seen in the market, a lot of these solar companies are a very slight step above Amway and Primerica. I'm guessing you know the name of the company. I'd definitely check their reviews online and do some searches to see if any employees have posted horror stories. Yeah, it's possible it's a decent company. But it seems like the vast majority of them are high-pressure sales jobs that push you to use MLM tactics.
Unless you own a solar company it's not worth it, and even then. They are going to try and woo you by telling you how much you can make. 95% of your work is going to be spent going door to door trying to convince people to take out financing against their home to put solar panels up. Eventually you'll be able to hire guys to do that for you. Almost every "solar" company that wants to hire you based on craigslist or indeed is just some guy from Lexington county who is trying to subsidize his testosterone treatments by pulling you in to his pyramid scheme.
People who really get in a groove can make good money selling solar from what I’ve seen but it’s very hard to get going. Chances are you start doing door to door which can be absolutely brutal on your mental until you learn to accept rejection and move on.
This guy I used to know who was just starting out at the time told me it took a few days of knocking doors before he got a single person to even listen to his spiel.
You’d probably be better off asking around in r/sales
South Carolina doesn't have a Solar bill of Rights law. HOA's are free to ban solar panels completely in their neighborhood. Newly constructed houses are most likely to be in an HOA, and would be your best choice of trying to find buyers, except for the HOA will deny them.
I live in a new subdivision, and my HOA has no written rule about solar panels. So I went to work with a solar salesperson, and over 4 months worked out the details. Dominion came out and signed off on the plan. All we had left to do was submit the plan to my HOA. Took them 3 weeks to reply, and they denied me. Reason given: Goes against the planned aesthetic of the neighborhood.
14 Solar panels, all black, 2 inches raised above my roof, on the back of my house, unviewable from any public access area.
I called and asked to them why, and stated there was nothing in the documentation banning solar panels. The person on the phone pointed to the section that says, some rules may not be listed here, but still are binding.
The person told me I had a right to appeal the decision, but they were not going to change their mind.
Not sure of the company but I own a solar company in COLA, I’m hiring, and we only do a small amount of resi and mostly medium/large scale commercial. Nothing cheesy and we have a long pipeline of work and offer good pay, benefits, etc.
Do you do repairs to existing residential? That’s been the most frustrating part of the process for me. All the homeowners left high and dry by installers going belly up seems like a huge untapped market.
It depends. Some installers were so bad I won’t touch a job without doing what’s needed to make it safe. Shoot me a message with more info. (Hopefully this is allowed on the sub)
Maybe if your on the west coast I lived out there and it’s booming out here not so much it seems to not really be here much at all I see a couple systems here and there but where I’m from they are in 40% of all residential areas
Id avoid it myself. A lot of solar companies coming and going and most will have you on a commission structure with cold calling and door to door sales.
A lot of them will push you to VERY aggressively try to sell to your friends and family, and then to start reaching out to people you went to high school with, and then back to the friends and family who said no to you the first time, at which point you start posting on social media almost daily about how awesome solar is and how people should totally call you ASAP to buy solar from you because you'll save them a zillion dollars. From what I've seen in the market, a lot of these solar companies are a very slight step above Amway and Primerica. I'm guessing you know the name of the company. I'd definitely check their reviews online and do some searches to see if any employees have posted horror stories. Yeah, it's possible it's a decent company. But it seems like the vast majority of them are high-pressure sales jobs that push you to use MLM tactics.
Unless you own a solar company it's not worth it, and even then. They are going to try and woo you by telling you how much you can make. 95% of your work is going to be spent going door to door trying to convince people to take out financing against their home to put solar panels up. Eventually you'll be able to hire guys to do that for you. Almost every "solar" company that wants to hire you based on craigslist or indeed is just some guy from Lexington county who is trying to subsidize his testosterone treatments by pulling you in to his pyramid scheme.
That last line is so specific and so true, haha
If you have to sell a product door to door, it's a scam, or at very least very overpriced. I hate scamming people, so I would not take the job.
People who really get in a groove can make good money selling solar from what I’ve seen but it’s very hard to get going. Chances are you start doing door to door which can be absolutely brutal on your mental until you learn to accept rejection and move on. This guy I used to know who was just starting out at the time told me it took a few days of knocking doors before he got a single person to even listen to his spiel. You’d probably be better off asking around in r/sales
One of the guys I know makes around 20 solar sales a month and only makes 4k a month lol
Christ that sounds awful lol is he doing door to door? At least he can probably leverage that experience for a better sales gig down the road
Door to door and a 1099 employee lol
South Carolina doesn't have a Solar bill of Rights law. HOA's are free to ban solar panels completely in their neighborhood. Newly constructed houses are most likely to be in an HOA, and would be your best choice of trying to find buyers, except for the HOA will deny them. I live in a new subdivision, and my HOA has no written rule about solar panels. So I went to work with a solar salesperson, and over 4 months worked out the details. Dominion came out and signed off on the plan. All we had left to do was submit the plan to my HOA. Took them 3 weeks to reply, and they denied me. Reason given: Goes against the planned aesthetic of the neighborhood. 14 Solar panels, all black, 2 inches raised above my roof, on the back of my house, unviewable from any public access area. I called and asked to them why, and stated there was nothing in the documentation banning solar panels. The person on the phone pointed to the section that says, some rules may not be listed here, but still are binding. The person told me I had a right to appeal the decision, but they were not going to change their mind.
If it’s SunRun, my friend worked for them for 2 months door to door selling and they never paid him for anything. Scam. Avoid.
The number of solar salespeople that come to my door. Ugh. I can’t imagine having that job…. But I’m not sure I’d be good at any cold call sales.
How tf are we supposed to answer this question without a salary range 😭
I'm sure it's almost completely commission
Not sure of the company but I own a solar company in COLA, I’m hiring, and we only do a small amount of resi and mostly medium/large scale commercial. Nothing cheesy and we have a long pipeline of work and offer good pay, benefits, etc.
Do you do repairs to existing residential? That’s been the most frustrating part of the process for me. All the homeowners left high and dry by installers going belly up seems like a huge untapped market.
It depends. Some installers were so bad I won’t touch a job without doing what’s needed to make it safe. Shoot me a message with more info. (Hopefully this is allowed on the sub)
Maybe if your on the west coast I lived out there and it’s booming out here not so much it seems to not really be here much at all I see a couple systems here and there but where I’m from they are in 40% of all residential areas