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Solar leases cause the most difficulty when owners of solar homes go to sell, according to a Colorado real-estate agent who trains shareit install other professionals on solar home sales—but that's only one of five problems that commonly arise when solar homes go on the market. "No two transactions are alike, so if one has solar, that’s fine. As long as everybody knows what they’re doing, it’s easy to get taken care of, and it doesn’t have to be that complicated.” But homeowners can feel it's too complicated, and that uncertainty may impede solar home sales and even slow the growth of solar installations, McGill said, largely because of these five issues. The multiple listing service (MLS) in most markets now includes "green fields" for agents to fill out in a home's market profile. The green fields list a home's environmentally-friendly features, such as solar PV, passive solar, energy efficiency or LEED certification. Some appraisers know how...