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Small update. The landlord got ahold of another electrician who will come out tomorrow AM (turns out the first one went out of business - shocking). He suggested I call Edison and have them check to see if there was a problem between the pole and the box. The Edison guy called me after checking and at first said it looked ok on their connection at the house. He asked me if it was multiple circuits flashing/going out and I said yes but it didn't seem to be one board or the other but a mix of outlets/lights. He said that he would need to climb the pole as it sounded like maybe it was a bad connection there. He said that an oxidized connection at the pole can cause every other circuit on the breaker board to go out. Odd - never heard that one before. Haven't been home yet and didn't hear back from him after he went up the pole.