You can choose to be hard, or choose to be soft.

The way the industry is structured from my experience the electrician often 'may' oversee the project, but typically you engage with a 'turnkey' solar type company to do all of the following:front end financial analysisget through the regulatory process and most utilities require filing what's called an 'interconnection agreement'bring in an engineer like me to draft plans, as requiredthen once the interconnection has been approved, they shop the install to an electricianoften in house resources from that solar company are used to actually mount panels and do most of the LV wiring, and they will leave the 120/240 etc wiring to the electricianGranted, the above process unfortunately has a lot of 'soft costs' built in that drive up the cost of these types of projects for a homeowner, but they still do pencil out in some cases.  

Most of us are not forced to sell when the market is soft.

Built for $200 sf hard+soft costs with a house approximately 4,000 sf.

I bought an REO in a very soft market.

have always had a soft spot for NL (and SE CT in general).

For slightly larger multifamily, we're seeing a little softness, but that's the only effect I've noticed so far.

@Joel Owens I have lodged a soft protest with the bank about the appraiser' assumptions.

It's just about the worst firewood and if somebody wants to mill soft wood then they'll just cut down a pine with a 30ft straight trunk.I don't know much about chinese tallow but some people make bowls out of the wood.... still sounds like it'd be hard to find a buyer.Still... if you've got more time than money you can call around.  

The economy still seems pretty soft in my area so I'm worried about building it and getting stuck with it.How do you estimate construction costs?