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Apartment turnover electrical: a punch list, a visit, and a unit that can be shown
Unit turnover electrical is a punch list: devices, GFCI, smoke-adjacent items, and whatever the last tenant broke. It is not a remodel. Doing it as a remodel is how turnovers miss the date.
A tenant is still in it
An occupied unit that cannot wait is apartment electrical repair.
The hall or the laundry failed too
House load is common-area electrical.
It is a condo being sold, not a rental turnover
The unit-versus-association line is condo electrical repair.
A turnover carries code items the last tenant’s wear does not excuse
A make-ready is not only replacing what broke. It is the point where current-code safety items get caught up: smoke and CO alarms, tamper-resistant receptacles, and GFCI where the kitchen and bath now require it.
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Alarms to current code
Smoke and CO placement and interconnection get checked against what the code asks now, not what was there when the unit was built.
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Protection retrofits
Kitchens, baths, and exterior receptacles are brought to GFCI, and tamper-resistant devices go in where required — the turnover is when this is cheap to do.
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Devices and cosmetics
Scorched receptacles, painted-over outlets, and a failed bath fan are the visible list; doing them with the code items keeps it a single visit.
When unit turnover electrical isn’t the right job
A vacant punch list with a showing date is this job. An occupied unit that cannot wait is not.
A tenant is living in the unit now
That is apartment electrical repair.
The work is halls, stairs, or laundry
That is common-area electrical.
Unit turnover electrical questions
The tenant has not moved out.
Then this isn’t the right job. An occupied unit is apartment electrical repair. Turnover is a vacant list and a date to show it.
Can we treat it as a small remodel?
No — it is a punch list against a move-in date, not a remodel. Treating it like one is what makes a turnover slip.
We have a stack of units, not one kitchen.
Still this job. The list repeats. A custom kitchen is a different job and a different date.
The house panel is the real problem.
Then the units will keep failing the walk-through. House load is common-area electrical.
Still not sure it is the right job? Call (279) 972-9272 — available 24 hours.
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