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Clarence Smith
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Should I separate the utilities in my triplex.

Clarence Smith
  • Investor
  • Philadelphia, PA
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I am trying to find a strategy or method of determining if it is worth the money to separate utilities in a triplex which I recently purchased. Separating utilities would require me to have a some electrical rewiring and purchase new furnaces. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. This is my first home purchase

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Stephen Joyner
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Stephen Joyner
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  • Lancaster, CA
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Do you know if the units have there own breakers? Or are there multiple units on a breaker? Such as all the lights in the units are tied to one breaker. Or common walls share the same cicuits? As a electrician I would say on a service stand point it is better if each unit has there own breaker. For the ease of trouble shooting issues and for saftey reason it is better to separate them. If they have separate meters if something should cause a breaker to trip you will only be dealing with one tenant. For billing it will save you some headaches unless you pay the whole bill yourself. Then it won't matter if the are metered by one meter. But it still should be important the each unit has it own breakers and the each unit dose not share circuits. 

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