I did this house of horrors inspection today on a 3-family home and found issues everywhere. But I’ll separate the issues accordingly.
Let’s start with Electrical. Every outlet in the building worked fine. But when I got to the basement, I realized that they were sharing 200 amps of electricity. Everyone in this building was related so I’m thinking that the electricity was shut off in two units, so they had someone come in and double lug the electricity to one meter. This first picture, the arrows point to the SE cables that are attached outside to the meter. No power on these cables. They are just sitting inside the panel.
Someone came in and did some illegal wiring from one panel that was live and added cables in order to feed the other panels. Sounds a bit confusing…just take a look at this funky wiring…
Found this new way of stealing power from another tenant…
They basically wrapped a live wire from another tenants wiring (by spicing a live wire from the basement area) to a plug, so they could get free power for one room.
Yea, it appears that I did, but it was obvious when I looked out the basement window to make sure.
I was disgusted throughout this entire 5 hour inspection. This is the first time I’ve ever spent 5 hours on a single property. And I made the Buyer aware of that.
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