Hello Folks,
Unfortunately I happen to live in a condominium (moved in 3 years ago) whereon the so called board delays, ignores, or simply refuses to fulfill their obligations. In all the buildings the carriage house provides electricity to the outside lighting and internally to the garages (four garages per building), but I found out that in my case there is a seemingly very irregular situation: the carriage house in my building was vacant for a long time (even before I moved in), and apparently someone (no one knows who and when or even if that happen, but it is an assumption) in the board made a decision of using my electricity (before I even own the unit) to feed the garage's doors with power. So basically I have been providing free electricity for the garage for over 3 years and was paying the normal association fee (without any deduction) and having a very irregular situation.
How I found about such situation is the most disturbing part of it: it was by chance which then created awareness about a seemingly dangerous and very irregular situation. There is outside light on my deck for what the bulb socket was too corroded, thus I planned to replace it with which then require the turning off the circuit breaker switch for a certain breaker branch (basement branch). Since I did not know which circuit breaker to turn off I simple turned off all of the circuit breakers, but to my surprise not only was the bulb socket in my deck still live but all the power on my basement was still on; that was true even when I turned off not only the all the different circuit breakers but also the top main circuit breaker switch. At first I assumed that one circuit breaker switch was bad, but then one would have to take into account the fact that turning the single top main breaker switch off (open) would turn off the power to all the other breakers (bathroom, bedroom, etc, would be off), but the basement would still be on. Moral of the story, it seems that there is no circuit breaker switch for the basement branch and it is directly connected to the power rails and neutral bar, not only that but using my clamp amp meter I found out that whenever I turn the light in the garage on the an increase in current in that branch of the circuit (basement branch) thus I deduced that my unit is also feeding power to the garage unbeknownst to me till recently (which then indicates that the association [hoa] at some point in time hooked up my basement branch to the garages of the building in order to feed all garages with power)
Any advices and ideas on how to proceed would be very welcome.
tk3000
Unfortunately I happen to live in a condominium (moved in 3 years ago) whereon the so called board delays, ignores, or simply refuses to fulfill their obligations. In all the buildings the carriage house provides electricity to the outside lighting and internally to the garages (four garages per building), but I found out that in my case there is a seemingly very irregular situation: the carriage house in my building was vacant for a long time (even before I moved in), and apparently someone (no one knows who and when or even if that happen, but it is an assumption) in the board made a decision of using my electricity (before I even own the unit) to feed the garage's doors with power. So basically I have been providing free electricity for the garage for over 3 years and was paying the normal association fee (without any deduction) and having a very irregular situation.
How I found about such situation is the most disturbing part of it: it was by chance which then created awareness about a seemingly dangerous and very irregular situation. There is outside light on my deck for what the bulb socket was too corroded, thus I planned to replace it with which then require the turning off the circuit breaker switch for a certain breaker branch (basement branch). Since I did not know which circuit breaker to turn off I simple turned off all of the circuit breakers, but to my surprise not only was the bulb socket in my deck still live but all the power on my basement was still on; that was true even when I turned off not only the all the different circuit breakers but also the top main circuit breaker switch. At first I assumed that one circuit breaker switch was bad, but then one would have to take into account the fact that turning the single top main breaker switch off (open) would turn off the power to all the other breakers (bathroom, bedroom, etc, would be off), but the basement would still be on. Moral of the story, it seems that there is no circuit breaker switch for the basement branch and it is directly connected to the power rails and neutral bar, not only that but using my clamp amp meter I found out that whenever I turn the light in the garage on the an increase in current in that branch of the circuit (basement branch) thus I deduced that my unit is also feeding power to the garage unbeknownst to me till recently (which then indicates that the association [hoa] at some point in time hooked up my basement branch to the garages of the building in order to feed all garages with power)
Any advices and ideas on how to proceed would be very welcome.
tk3000