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septic paying for sewer

Posted By: Randy
Friday, February 20th, 2009 5:29 pm

septic paying for sewer

PA Landlord Problems

Hello, we are renting a house in pa, we have a septic system, the township has installed sewer system and our landlord will not connect, he is making us pay sewer bill when we still have septic, the township bills for sewer even though he,s not connected they have put a sewer hookup lien on the propety but he wont respond, can he make us pay for swere even though we are still on septic??

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2 Responses to “septic paying for sewer”


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anonymous

February 20th, 2009 10:23 pm

FL

A landlord can pass on whatever charges the property may be imposed. It is extremely common for landlords to pass on exessive cost of increased taxes onto their tenants. With that said, your township probably voted for a bond to have a public sewer system. The cost of such sewer is probably calculated per property and passed onto the property owners as a increased tax or fee. The landlord has right to charge you for those increases under normal cercumstances, unless he has specifically excluded them from your rental contract.
So yes, you can be charged the sewer fee even though your property is not connected to the sewer.



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Sarah

February 23rd, 2009 7:26 am

CA

The landlord can charge city impact fees if it is explained in the contract. If it isn’t you may be able to dispute the new charge. You may want to get the city involved if the landlord is required to change over the septic system over to the new sewer and refused not to. They may be able to force him to make the change. I doubt it is a requirement. Its probably an option the everyone voted on and now the costs are passed on down to you.





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