CPM has teamed up with the non-profit organization Housing and Economic Rights Advocates ("HERA") to bring this individual and class action lawsuit in Alameda County Superior Court alleging that certain solar finance and installation companies have targeted Latino homeowners in California with intent to defraud them into entering into a PACE Assessment Agreement to finance solar power upgrades to their home. Plaintiff alleges in her complaint that homeowners are repeatedly hounded by robocallers in Spanish and told that a government program requires them to install solar panels. Then when the homeowner finally relents and receives the paperwork, it is all in English and includes an agreement for a priority tax lien to be put on their home and exorbitant and hidden fees and charges to finance the solar upgrade are included--all without the homeowners' knowledge or disclosure to the homeowner in Spanish. Defendants at this time are PACE Funding Group LLC, Green Pace Financial Inc., Complete Solar Inc., and Garantia Solar.
