Legal question

[transfattyacid]

I just found out that the wiring in the three apt building I live in is all screwy and that I've been paying part of the upstairs neighbor's electricity and vice versa. I haven't been able to confirm whether or not I'm paying anything else that I'm not supposed to. Can anyone give me any advice on what my course of action should be in rectifying

Comments

[grandwazooo]

get your own electrician to check things out.
if it's as your landlord says it is, pay the electrician and say no more about it.
If the electrician finds something, give your landlord his bill and findings and take it from there - if your landlord is a cop he will have to be as careful to keep his nose clean as you feel you have to be because he is a cop.

[dyheli]

This doesn't help but there was a guy in New York or something who was over charged for 20 years when he lived in a New York apartment building. Later, the company charged him owed him thousands of thousands of dollars.

I wish I could find the article but google isn't helping. Apparently there is a lot of online discussion about electricity companies overcharging because I cannot filter through results to any news articles.

[transfattyacid]

Yeah, it's not a matter of my electric comp. over charging me. It's my landlord being too lazy to fix a problem and lying to his tennents. I know the wiring is faulty because the upstairs neighbor was using her treadmill and I was vacuuming and blew a fuse and we both lost power.

[raze__the_rose]

Was this a house, that was later converted to apartments? I ran this by my electrician boyfriend and he said

[transfattyacid]

We talked to the tennent on the second floor and she told us that she would sometimes shut her power off if she was going to be gone for a couple of days and that the third floor tennent started complaining about her power going off. She also said she realized she was paying for third floor tennents washer and dryer usage. I don't know, but all of this seems very illegal on the landlords behalf. It also doesn't make sense that the second floor tennent (whose apt is smaller than ours) is paying for a large portion of our electric, is very frugal with her own usage and has bills that are half the size of ours. I guess I just want to know what the heck i'm paying for and don't feel it should be up to the tennents to fix the problem, but my landlord seems very reluctant to address the problem as he's already lied to me about it.

[meantforamazing]

It is illegal for the landlord not to have proper wiring. Try asking .

[meantforamazing]

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