Is this considered an illegal apartment rental? ?
I was told by my electric utility company as well as the city that I reside, that they needed a permit from my apartment leasing office and until then no electricity can be provided to my unit. I even spoke to several city officials who confirmed that my apartment (which is newly built) had not provided the city with a permit. I told my leasing agent about this as well as management and they lied that a permit was given because they’re receiving electricity. My unit received electricity but it was not from my utility company. The city and my utility company confirmed that no electricity could be sent to my unit since the city didn’t get a permit from the apartment. The question is how in the world was I receiving electricity? Unless the apartment were doing foul play and supplying my unit with their own electricity. Considering I never received any electricity bill.
I spoke to another official who concluded that perhaps the apartment provided the city with the wrong meter number of my specific unit because the meter number that they provided to the city is for a Completely different address. After speaking to my apt manager about this a million times they ignored me and refused to call the city. I ended up breaking my lease due to unprofessional management who treated me like I was not a priority. They tried to bill me $13k but dropped the bill after I brought up the permit situation. I asked what was the reason for them dropping the bill and they refused to respond.