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Re: Water Heater Question - Landlord or Tenant Responsibility
Posted by David Kroft on 12/20/2008, 6:01 pm, in reply to "Water Heater Question - Landlord or Tenant Responsibility"
It is not the tenant's or the landlord's resposibility to pay for the conversion. It is Toronto Hydro who should pay for it.
Their mandate is morally wrong. Toronto Hydro is receiving the benefit by removing from their operation the legacy flat rate water heaters that were originally set up by Toronto Hydro to allow for interruptions in service to off load peak demand.
If Toronto Hydro waits about 20 to 30 years all conversion would happen via renovation and redevelopment.
Contact your city councillor for the removal of the mandate.
No electric use conversation will result since the economic way to convert is via one service for an apartment building and this conversion moves the flat rate from Toronto Hydro to the landlord or condo. corp.
--Previous Message--
: I live in an apartment a small building and
: pay my own utilities every month. Hydro is
: requiring everyone on flat rate water heater
: service to switch to metered service, and
: in order for that to happen work needs to be
: done -- work that may cost upwards of
: 400-500 dollars.
:
: My landlord is saying that it's not her
: responsibility to pay the cost since tenants
: are responsible for their own utilities. I
: think that she should have to pay for this,
: because it's work that needs to be done to
: the building, and it's not like I'm making
: this switch by choice, I'm required to do
: this if I want to continue having hot water.
:
: I can't seem to find anything regarding it
: at any of the tenants rights website. Does
: anyone here know who should have to pay for
: this work -- me or my landlord?
:
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