Our rear neighbor did a quick pack-up and left while theirs was still a short-sale, about a week before it reverted to bank owned. They did the whole strip the kitchen, fixtures, etc thing, but THEN they took the Solar off the roof! They just cut the pipes that run from the pool pump up to the roof, and somehow managed to get the huge black solar panels down – and we never even noticed. I can’t figure out if they did it in the middle of the night or what.
The HUGE downside to that for us, though, is that their pool has not had a pump now for about a month, and is turning into a bug-breeding cesspool. We called the health department and mosquito abatement.