https://www.rentalprotectionagency.com/tenant-rights/my-property-manager-is-saying-i-must-pay-for-my-evicted-tenants-electric-bill Sat, 16 Oct 2021 17:50:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 https://www.rentalprotectionagency.com/tenant-rights/my-property-manager-is-saying-i-must-pay-for-my-evicted-tenants-electric-bill#comment-43468 Mon, 23 May 2011 22:20:21 +0000 http://www.rentalprotectionagency.com/blog/landlord/?p=128#comment-43468 Questions like these should be directed to a lawyer. First, read your contract you have with the management company. Did you agree for them to allow your tenants to use the property management’s utilities or did the contract the tenant signed (which you should have received a copy of) specify that ALL utilities are the responsibility of the tenant?? If it was the tenants, then your PM company is at fault for not following through. If everything you say about them not paying rent, etc is true, then it sounds like your PM company didn’t do what you pay them to do, which is manage your property. I don’t know how long it takes to evict someone in FL but it takes 21 days in Texas so I’d be asking why it took so long.
You may have rights to compensation from them in excess of the utilities. Again, speak to a lawyer, even if you have to pay him $200 for an hour of his services it is worth it! I have one on retainer just so I can ask him questions every so often and it has gotten me out of hot water more than once…

]]> https://www.rentalprotectionagency.com/tenant-rights/my-property-manager-is-saying-i-must-pay-for-my-evicted-tenants-electric-bill#comment-43467 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:42:14 +0000 http://www.rentalprotectionagency.com/blog/landlord/?p=128#comment-43467 The electric and gas bills follow the tenant. The landlord is not responsible for paying these bills. However, if there are any unpaid water bills the landlord must pay those.

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