Power turned off in new rental (OH, US)
Hi! On October 1st, my husband and I moved into a duplex in Ohio. We were asked by the landlord to put the power bill in our name and we called the company to do so. The power company told us that our power should have been off and that our meter was reading as not on in their system. There was power from the day we moved in. They sent a worker to come look at it and we were given a notice that the power would be shut off due to the meter being tampered with. Our landlord claims to not know what happened and is offering to take money off our rent if we stay in a hotel until the issue is resolved. I am not comfortable doing this, as we have just moved in and don’t have the funds to stay in a hotel for an undisclosed amount of time. Is there anything we can do about the electricity being off? If we are able to break out of the lease because of this, we would like to. Our landlord has been very flippant about the whole situation and it worries us about being here in the long term.