From the Forum: New Apartment Has No Hot Water, Gas, Internet
A commenter in the Forum needs your help. He just moved into a new apartment — and guess what? The Greenpoint building has no hot water, stove gas, or Internet. The commenter says: “National Grid told me to reach out to landlord, because the building had not been set up. Landlord tells me it could…
A commenter in the Forum needs your help. He just moved into a new apartment — and guess what? The Greenpoint building has no hot water, stove gas, or Internet.
The commenter says:
“National Grid told me to reach out to landlord, because the building had not been set up. Landlord tells me it could take up to five weeks until we have gas to cook. He also said it could be weeks until we have hot water.
Our Internet guy came out today, spent an hour in our apartment and said the building is restricted, and unable to set up Internet.
This is a brand new building, what sort of legal action can we take? Deny rent?”
Well, that’s one possibility. But it turns out there may be much more going on here than meets the eye. This building may not have a certificate of occupancy. What would you do?
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Just a little clairty. Not all blgs need a C of O.
For example if you do an Alt 2 job, that means rehabilitate an old bldg no CO is needed, all that is needed is a signoff and the DOB issues a Letter of completion and you can see that under job fillings. johnife is 100% right this is an example of bad journalism. In any case if you are a Tenant that needs to open a account by national grid and there is an issue or wait time there is nothing the landlord or owner can do to expedite the process.. my suggestion is to ask the landlord for a discount on rent (which they will usally understand, unless its coming as a demand).
Regarding ur internet its very hard to understand what the issue is. why is there any Restriction? Maybe that area is trough a different provider.? just to say that its the landlords fault is bizzare.
Hope my info was helpful.
Tom