Quinnlos OP t1_j12pzkd wrote on December 21, 2022 at 5:58 AM

Reply to comment by ProgMM in Shitty landlord, what do we do? by Quinnlos

That would be the company unfortunately. I also totally understand that the air fryer is a large draw on the circuit, my concern is that for the whole of our two floors there seem to be about two individually operating circuits, which are also connected to the basement seemingly. Of course, I’m no electrician by any means, but I feel that for two floors to share so much of the grid of a house, and for a separate grid to be cordoned off to about one room in what’s considered an “apartment” is almost malicious oversight on behalf of whoever updated the wiring (if it’s ever been). But please correct me if I’m wrong or just making incorrect assumptions here.

ProgMM t1_j12rbd8 wrote on December 21, 2022 at 6:12 AM

Ah well okay, in all fairness that’s a bit worse than I assumed. But it still sounds like old wiring imo, from the days of far fewer appliances. Ideally, they would’ve replaced that by now, but as you can probably tell, those guys buy fixer-uppers and then never fix jack shit.

My good friend lives in one of their houses. Their furnace was locked out. The oil company wouldn’t send a contractor without authorization from the landlord, and they couldn’t get the landlord to authorize it. For fucking heat. My buddy would’ve even paid for it. Still got ghosted. Thankfully, between me and his dad, we ultimately got it working, but that just goes to show what you’ve already figured out— they’re negligent slumlords. And that’s hardly the headline when it comes to the scumbag who leads them.

Best of luck with all this. Hopefully withholding rent helps out. I doubt you’ll get anywhere when it comes to getting a basic standard of wiring, but the rest of this stuff sounds plausible.

Old_Size9060 t1_j141jl1 wrote on December 21, 2022 at 2:51 PM

If you’re connected to the basement electric - does that include a shared dryer? That could be a lot of additional electric that you are paying for and even if it isn’t, technically (as I understand it) in CT, if you are paying for any electrical in a common area, your landlord owes 100% of your bill.