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who is responsible for repairing or replacing the entire breaker box located inside a condo apartment?
Is is considered to be a common element? Our by laws are not clear on that.
Your lease should clarify responsibility. In our coop, building is responsibile for the wires up to the box from the basement. The box, breakers, and all other wiring inside the apt. is the unit owners responsibility. Boxes rarely go bad, but if you have a Federal box from the 50's - 80's? you might want to replace at least the breakers with the new style. The old Federal breakers were often defective.
in this coop, iwe had the elctrical upgraded from fuses to ckt breakers and the bldg paid for that, we probably had an assessment too. If we wanted an aditional line a air conditioner with a 20 amp ckt., we paid the cost of the additional line installation.
You here everything inside the walls is the bldg and walls out is shareholders, but every building is different
Plus you can get into really tricky stuff with the utilities if they go through the lower apartments, and the lower unit resident doesn't realize the wires are live and feed upstairs, and cuts them during a remodeling.,
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You have to read your proprietary lease I live in a co-op it's the shareholders responsibility
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