Which Stallings houses actually justify copper
At 62.6% built between 1990 and 2009, Stallings has the most concentrated housing cohort of any town in this study, and with a median of 2002 that cohort has now arrived at a very specific age. Aluminium at twenty-four years is nowhere near finished. The sealant in its mitres and end caps is a different matter: it is a compound with a service life measured in one to two decades, not the same as the metal it sits in, and across Stallings it is reaching the end of that life more or less simultaneously. Almost every gutter call we take from this town is a corner that has started weeping.
Copper earns its place on some of that and not on the rest, and we would rather say which before quoting four to five times the aluminium rate. It belongs on genuine period property, where an aluminium K-style run across original eaves detailing is a visible compromise on a building that deserves better, and on architect-specified work where the metal is a deliberate part of the elevation. On modern subdivision housing it performs no better in any way that matters, because an under-drained copper gutter overflows exactly like an under-drained aluminium one. If the appeal is the look, painted aluminium half-round at $16 to $26 a foot gets most of the way there for roughly a third of the money.
Where copper is right, the specification decides everything. Copper is a noble metal and aluminium is not, so a copper gutter on aluminium hangers makes the hanger the actively corroding half of a galvanic cell, wet, every time it rains, for years. The gutter stays immaculate and the bracket wastes away, and in fifteen years the run comes off a house whose owner was expecting a lifetime. Copper or bronze hangers, copper or stainless fasteners, copper downspouts and straps, and soldered joints rather than sealant.
One check specific to the property rather than the town: copper runoff corrodes bare aluminium and galvanised steel below it, so anything downstream on the elevation (flashings, a porch roof, an existing downspout) gets looked at before we hang a foot of it.

What Stallings itself changes
What drops on these roofs
Light to moderate, and similar in character to neighbouring Indian Trail, farmland converted to subdivision, with planted trees that are only now reaching the height of the eaves on the earliest streets. The debris load is genuinely low by metro standards. What Stallings does get, like the whole of the Union County side, is the spring pine pollen and catkin drop, which washes into the outlets and sets there, so the spring visit here is a downspout job with a gutter attached.
Getting to the gutters
Uniform and easy. The town is essentially one large cohort of subdivision housing with the layout that implies: level drives, standard setbacks, two-storey elevations of predictable height. There is very little in Stallings that needs anything other than a ladder and a normal working position, which keeps quotes here at the lower end of the access range.