Disconnected phone wire and access to the box.

[jm_spm]

What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state? IL

Hello,

A month ago I moved into a condo, it is being remodelled now, and less than 75% of apartment is sold, so there is no HOA (correct me if i am wrong).
What is the status of the building - I mean who makes decisions - developer?

This happened to me few days ago:
Somebody pulled out our telephone wire. I called phone company - they found that my service is fine and connected to the box in the basement but there is no wire running from there to my apartment (that took one day).
I went to the contractor's manager and told him about this. He told me to call the phone company because he did not let anybody in the basement. I said that I already had and they found the problem was in the building and that building management is responsible for fixing this. Since I hold a degree in electrical engineering I told the guy that if he'd only let me in I could fix this easily, he called his boss (developer?), and said that I couldn't go there because I could mess other people wires and that they would send electrician to fix this.

It would all be fine if not the fact that it took them 3 days to repair this, and it was as simple as finding my wire in a bunch of other wires and pluging it in the box. I could do this in 10 minutes, instead I waited 4 days for their electrician to come and say "You were right" (they thaught that I screwed something in my apartment and that they would charge me for this).

Can they prohibit me from seeing/repairing my own wires?
Phone company guy told me that I can do this by myself (got a degree) or hire a contractor, but I guess since this is a condo there are other issues going on.

Do I have a right to see my utility meters?

This is nothing really important, but I would really like to know how to react in such situations in the future.

Thank you,
JM

[wayne-o]

Each property is different, however when I bought my condo, I was the 4th person there and there were already condo bylaws etc. In our case, the builder was responsible for the HOA and had hired a management company to oversee issues such as yours. Your rights would be explained in your bylaws.