For PV developers & solar companies

Roof-lease offers with key data instead of "I might have a roof"

Your lessor enquiry captures roof area, orientation, year built, roofing material and ownership in a structured way — with photo upload. You only assess roofs that stand a numerical chance.

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Which key data matters?

5 Min of lessor self-disclosure replaces hours of research per unsuitable roof

Why roof acquisition is such a grind today

Offers without any substance

"We have a big hall, what do you pay?" — no area, no orientation, no year built. You research aerial images, estimate areas and chase by phone just to find out whether a second look is even worthwhile.

Structural and condition surprises

Asbestos-cement roofing, built 1972, refurbishment "planned at some point" — such knockout criteria often surface only after hours of prep or at the site visit. Indicators like roofing material, year built and refurbishment status would have screened the roof out in minutes.

Unclear ownership

The enquirer turns out to be a tenant, a property manager or one of four heirs — none authorised to sign. Weeks of project lead time collapse because the ownership question was asked last instead of first.

From roof tip to assessable project enquiry

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    Set up the lessor enquiry in a structured way

    Via AI to a draft in 30 seconds: address, estimated roof area, orientation, roof shape and covering, year built, known refurbishments, ownership, grid-connection situation. Plus photo uploads for roof and surroundings. Embed on your website or send as a link.

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    Owners deliver the self-disclosure

    One question per screen, intelligible for non-engineers — with help texts ("Roof area is often in the building documents; a rough estimate suffices"). Conditional logic distinguishes hall, barn and residential building and asks accordingly.

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    You prioritise based on the data

    Every enquiry arrives complete and comparable. You spot knockout criteria in two minutes; promising roofs proceed to professional assessment — structural surveys and site visits remain mandatory, but only for roofs worth it.

Tools for roof acquisition

Photo upload

Roof view, internal structure, meter board — images right in the enquiry instead of requested later.

Conditional logic

Commercial hall, agricultural building or apartment block — each building type gets its own questions.

Required fields

Ownership and area details are required — the substance-free enquiry no longer exists.

Save & resume

Anyone who has to dig out building documents first pauses and resumes later via the same link.

Embedding & link

Embed on your developer website or distribute as a link in ads and agricultural newsletters.

GDPR & German hosting

Owner and building data sits tenant-isolated on servers in Germany, DPA included.

Less than an afternoon of aerial-image research

Free to try (3 forms, 100 responses/month). Pro at €12/month (€9/month annually): unlimited forms, your own branding, AI included.

Free

3 forms, 250 responses/month

Pro

Unlimited, 10,000 responses/month, AI included

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Questions from project-development practice

Which key data should the roof enquiry capture?
The practical shortlist: address, building type, estimated roof area, orientation and pitch, roofing material (asbestos cement being the keyword), year built and refurbishment status as structural indicators, ownership including signing authority, and the grid-connection situation. These fields screen out eighty percent of unsuitable roofs without further research.
Does the self-disclosure replace the structural survey?
No — year built, roofing material and refurbishment status are pre-selection indicators, not a substitute for professional assessment. Structural survey, site visit and grid-compatibility check remain fixed parts of your process. The enquiry merely ensures only promising roofs go through those expensive steps.
Can laypeople even state roof area and orientation?
Roughly, yes — and rough is enough for pre-selection. Help texts assist: "Hall length times width is a good starting value" or "Check your phone's compass standing in front of the building". The roof photo provides the reality check. You determine precise values yourself for serious candidates anyway.
How do I ask the ownership question without scaring people off?
Matter-of-factly, with the reason in the help text: "For a lease offer we need to know who can sign the contract." Options like sole owner, co-owner, property manager, community of heirs make answering easy. Anyone dropping out here could not have signed later anyway — that is pre-qualification working as intended.
Why not a printable PDF capture sheet?
The PDF sheet fails exactly the audience you want: farmers and business owners will not fill it in at night, print, scan, email. The online form runs on the phone, captures photos directly and validates required fields — the barrier drops, data quality rises. And you retype nothing.
How secure is the owner data?
Addresses, ownership details and building photos are personal data — transferred encrypted and stored tenant-isolated on servers in Germany. We provide the Art. 28 GDPR DPA. Especially towards landowners, "data stays in Germany" is a trust argument worth stating actively.
Does this work for ground-mounted land offers too?
Yes — simply create a second form for ground-mounted sites: plot reference, area size, current use, distance to grid connection, ownership. Forms are unlimited on Pro; many developers run roof and land acquisition in parallel with separate flows.

Only assess roofs with substance

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