Hello, My apartment building has an annual electrical inspection where an electrician checks all the outlets in each apartment. The inspection takes about 5 minutes per apartment. The issue is that the landlord usually announces the date only 3–4 days in advance by putting a note in everyone’s mailbox (not by mail or email). I’ve always been home before, but this month where it usually happened the last 3 years I’ll be on a two-week vacation and will likely miss both the notice and the inspection. The landlord says that every tenant must either be home that day or hand over their apartment keys. Otherwise, the tenant has to pay for the electrician to come back another time. My questions are: Is giving only 3–4 days’ notice generally considered sufficient? If I leave my keys with the landlord while I’m away, is the landlord liable if anything goes missing from my apartment? Can the landlord really charge me for a second inspection if I can’t attend because I’m on vacation? From the country I am, there is always second option and only the third option is paid by the tenant if they cant attend either of the previous two. Around how much could such electrical inspection cost? (studio Apartment, Kanton Zurich, 25 meters square, 4 sockets all together). Like ~300 chf? Thank you for sharing your experience, have a nice evening submitted by /u/Hornet_Various
Originally posted by u/Hornet_Various on r/Switzerland