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Another tell is if the main panel and the meter socket are from different time periods. If they were hack DIYs, changing the panel to breakers may have been within their comfort zone but changing the meter would have scared them. Sure sign there will be more hack things to fix.

If I read that right, the new owners first project improvement is the pool, they are out of their minds. If the rest of the house has the same hack DIY, (roof, boiler, windows, insulation), older houses are all the same, it's a good bet they need the new roof, boiler, windows. It's typical imo it needs 60K for that (roof, windows, siding, exterior insulating board all tied in together. It takes time living in the house to figure out what works and what doesn't.

The liability exposure for advising the maint mechanic how to wire, if you have the license and he doesn't, is non zero for you. There's no way out he will never fix everything. I would limit my exposure to one or two letters. You could advise them of the violations and deficiencies, and offer to fix it with the service change added circuits.
 
Eddie702 said:
JMHO but I wouldn't touch the pool unless they agree to fix up any violations.

What happens if you do the pool and they pay you for that and then back out of fixing the rest?? Could be liability for you?? Don't know
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you could write a letter stating your concerns and if any litigation comes back to you present it showing you informed them of potential problems.

may be certain ways of going about this that are better than others, just making a suggestion here. One being having them sign a copy for you to keep.
 
Eddie702 said:
JMHO but I wouldn't touch the pool unless they agree to fix up any violations.

What happens if you do the pool and they pay you for that and then back out of fixing the rest?? Could be liability for you?? Don't know
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The bottom line is any work you do puts you on the list of people that will be sued if something goes wrong down the road at that location. That's why you have liability insurance.

Want something goes wrong the lawyers look for everyone that had anything whatsoever to do with what went wrong and they sue all of them. That way they can depose them and find out what they did or did not do. That is just the way the US court system works. As a practical matter it can't work any other way.
 
petersonra said:
The bottom line is any work you do puts you on the list of people that will be sued if something goes wrong down the road at that location. That's why you have liability insurance.

Want something goes wrong the lawyers look for everyone that had anything whatsoever to do with what went wrong and they sue all of them. That way they can depose them and find out what they did or did not do. That is just the way the US court system works. As a practical matter it can't work any other way.
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But you can't be afraid of this either or you will never work on anything out of fear of being sued.

Need to know when things are potentially a trap and know to either avoid working on it altogether or how to cover your self as much as possible just in case.

Even if OP didn't have more obvious violations present, if you were there they may find a way of attempting to pin something on you just because you might have had some impact on it.

You need to know how to prove that what you did likely wasn't an issue or that there was existing conditions present and that you did notify the owner of those conditions but they refused to address them.
 
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