Condominium Help. Anyone please !!!

I would suggest sitting down and reading your entire HOA agreement. It will
either say you are liable or it will say they are - but either way, I'm sure it's
addressed. A condo I own does indeed spell out that anything outside my interior
walls is the responsibility of the HOA to repair.

Jedi

 

I can't imagine that the electrical room is not part of the common area and that the condo remains responsible.
You might also contact your own homeowner's insurance and make a claim with them. They will certainly sort out responsibility, if it is not their's.
Next step I'd follow: either hire a lawyer and/or send a letter to the condominium management company and condominium board stating your position and requesting that they have the insurance carrier for the board and condominium contact you to provide their insurance disclosure and to discuss the issue.
This seems to be a fairly clear issue to me.
Rob

 

Everything 'past the meter bubble" is legally the property of the structure.
The power complany 'stops there"..

But if the Condo Management are going to step back from it, replace the circuit breaker yourself (with a licensed electrcial worker) and get you power back on before you damage something (if not already).

Tell me the number of the breaker, I can tell you what it costs......

 

I say kick the door in and change the thing before you burn the place down?

 

Did the fire department show up.
If so call the town building inspector and let him know there was a fire and FPL came out and said that there is a problem, but the management company is stalling on fixing it saying it is not their responsibility when it probably is, and will not let you go in to fix it. Tell them that there are X number of people living in the building and that you are concerned about their safety in case of another fire.

Usually associations dont like dealing with town officials because they dont want to get fined so they start fixing things right away.

A few years ago the place that I lived in in NJ didnt remove the 6 ft snowdrifts from inside the courtyard that went to the the front of peoples homes. They said we could get out through our garages in case of emergency. Well the idiots plowed all the snow that was in front of the garages, but since I was on the end, they piled it all up and blocked my garage. When I told them I was going to call the fire department and report that entrances and exits were blocked, the association had everything cleared up within a few hours.

 

Typically, the meter room is 'common property' and not the individual unit owners, therefore it is the condo's responsibility to maintain it. Contact the management company, and alert them in writing.

If they continue to insist that it belongs to you, tell them to send you that information in writing, and let them know that upon reciept of that document you will be changing the locks on the meter room door since it's your property.

 

All opinions above aside.... READ YOUR HOA CONTRACT. It's ALL IN THERE....
everything else is just commentary...

Jedi