Future neighbor stealing electricity!!!

propertyman

You have two options

1: Ask the person who owns or manages the common hall to secure the fitting it costs £15 plus fitting.
http://www.alzproducts.co.uk/socketsafe-lockable-plug-cover.html?gclid=CL_ksO2IiLQCFUfJtAod9GwASA

2: Make it clear that you will only pay for the reasonable cost of electricity associated with x light bulbs power for vacuum x a week/month and any repair work.

It's easy to work out the Kw used for that.


Or walk away.

phill99

Get the managing agents to install keyed sockets and the only the cleaners etc can use them.

shegar

If you report them they may then make your life a misery, as you know all this before youve spent a lot on the property, my advise would be look elsewhere......
Also they obviously know that you are aware of what they are doing..

Id rather lose £99, than live beside that low life scum......But thats my opinion........

reheat

shegar wrote: »

If you report them they may then make your life a misery, as you know all this before youve spent a lot on the property, my advise would be look elsewhere......
Also they obviously know that you are aware of what they are doing..

Id rather lose £99, than live beside that low life scum......But thats my opinion........

I'd take good heed of this excellent bit of advice ... wish we had a few years back. It's not just about the theft of electricity. It's extremely difficult to suss whether your future neighbours will be decent or horrendous, and spotting what you have seen is actually a blessing in disguise for you - you now know that these people don't give a damn about folks other than themselves, and are probably a real pain to their neighbours in other less obvious ways. I'd walk away, thankful for the chance.

brit1234

Seen this before with cannabis farms, be careful. Are there any funny smells? Report to the police and look elsewhere, I reckon you would have trouble from that flat.

globetraveller

Pull out and tell the sellers why.
It's not worth it.

martinsurrey

as above,

The electricity is not a deal breaker, but their attitude to living in a flat is, If they don’t mind stealing from the neighbours, how about noise, how about scratching cars in the car park with their car doors?

Walk away, not that your eventual neighbours may be any better, but you KNOW these ones would be trouble!

(and tell the EA/vendor exactly why you are walking away, may spur them on to doing something)

pmlindyloo

reheat wrote: »

I'd take good heed of this excellent bit of advice ... wish we had a few years back. It's not just about the theft of electricity. It's extremely difficult to suss whether your future neighbours will be decent or horrendous, and spotting what you have seen is actually a blessing in disguise for you - you now know that these people don't give a damn about folks other than themselves, and are probably a real pain to their neighbours in other less obvious ways. I'd walk away, thankful for the chance.

Absolutely agree with this post - these are people who don't give a *$%*. Just be thankful that you have had a chance to find out about them before you moved in. Who wants these people as neighbours?

moneyistooshorttomention

brit1234 wrote: »

Seen this before with cannabis farms, be careful. Are there any funny smells? Report to the police and look elsewhere, I reckon you would have trouble from that flat.

I doubt it's an <ahem> "business enterprise" going on there. Also - aren't there other signs of such a "business enterprise" (eg silver foil on all the windows and few signs of any people coming or going)?

From what I've read - I would think a "cannabis farm" uses such a VAST amount of electric that even the dimmest management committee would have latched on to it long before now.

More like "common or garden theft" by "ordinary" neighbours - quite possibly using that socket for some "domestic" heat for themselves personally.

Could be worth a check with the Land Registry (less than £10 cost) to see who owns that flat - ie whether it's owner-occupiers or renters.

I may be being a bit naive here - but I don't think evidence they are stealing electric like this would necessarily mean they are general "no goods" in a variety of other respects. They may just be stealing that electric - but, in other ways, behaving themselves pretty normally (not that that, in any way, excuses the theft of electric - just to point out that that may well be ALL they are doing wrong iyswim).

SecondTimeBuyer

To be honest I wouldn't touch a flat that already has a potential neighbour dispute. You are moving into a place you want to call home and there is nothing worse than dreading going home due to a potential dispute. There are plenty more houses in the sea...