Renters, Apartments & HOA Charging

Third apartment in four years. Every place has had a different outlet situation and I got tired of praying the landlord would install something. Last place h...

My condo association has flatly said no to adding any EV charging infrastructure for the foreseeable future -- not even a shared outlet in the garage. I'm st...

Trying to get a realistic picture of what charging actually looks like for people in apartments, since most guides seem to assume you can install something. ...

Miracle: he said yes. After a year of asking. Now the electrician is showing up Saturday and he asked me what plug I want and I completely froze. I drive a B...

Hosts who've added EV charging -- what was the actual experience of picking a charger for this, cost-wise and hassle-wise? Trying to figure out if it's worth...

Trying to understand what options renters actually have for charging, beyond just 'ask your landlord.' For anyone who's gone through this -- did you end up w...

Been renting at the same complex for three years, finally bought an EV, and now I'm realizing there's zero charging infrastructure -- no outlets in the garag...

Been renting in an older apartment complex (built ~1990s) for years and there's zero EV infrastructure -- not even conduit run to the parking area. I've seen...

Our condo board is finally moving on adding EV chargers to the shared garage after years of requests, but the quote has a monthly per-unit fee on top of the ...

I own a townhouse in the Steele Creek area that I've been renting out for about six years now — bought it as a bank foreclosure back when I was doing more fl...

I own a six-unit building in South Portland that I've managed myself since I bought it in 2019 — small enough that I still handle maintenance requests and le...

I've been in my building near Los Feliz for about five years now, one of the older courtyard buildings that falls under LA's Rent Stabilization Ordinance. Re...

I manage a small portfolio of rental units — mostly here in Maine, but we picked up two buildings in Colorado and one in Florida this year, and property mana...

Two years into renting this townhouse and I've been fine doing public charging plus a slow trickle off a regular outlet in the carport for the Bolt. My carpo...

Three years in the same building outside Rochester, upstairs unit, assigned spot in the side lot about sixty feet from the electrical room. When I first aske...

So I manage commercial properties for a living but apparently that doesn't help me understand my own building's rules. Property management just sent a notice...

Just moved out of my place in Denver after two years running a wall-mount Level 2 charger on a NEMA 14-50 outlet in the garage. When I took the unit down bef...

Our HOA president has made it pretty clear he's not a fan of EVs and he's been blocking anything he considers a "permanent modification" to detached garages,...

I own a townhouse up in NJ that I've rented out for about 8 years now — I'm down in North Carolina myself, so it's a long-distance landlord situation, but th...

Good news, my landlord actually signed off on putting in a 240V outlet for my new EV. Bad news, the amendment he had me sign is oddly specific — "no damage t...

I keep seeing the federal 30C tax credit mentioned in basically every thread about apartment charging costs, always as this offhand "and don't forget the tax...

Relocated from Florida to Ohio for a new job about a month ago and I'm still living out of half my boxes in a new apartment. The car I ordered back in Florid...

Spent most of last weekend trying to get a real number for what it costs to install a charger for just one apartment spot in 2026 and came up mostly empty. E...

I live in a condo and our AGM just voted no to chargers. Has anyone successfully convinced their building to install EV charging? Tips?