Utility Bills!

[pussyfoot]

Is it up to the landlord or the tenant weather the utility bills (gas & electric) get paid by bill or on a card meter?

[sandyRoe]

The tenant. They can get a card meter installed, or removed, if they want.

[ummmm]

Wouldn't they need the landlords permission to get one installed?

[bednobs]

ultimately it's up to the landlord. However, when i lived in a key meter flat, we had it changed to an ordinary meter, then had it changed back before we moved out

[mccfluff]

when i moved in here it was on a card meter and i was told i couldn't get it uninstalled as it was the landlords property

[sandyRoe]

The meter would belong to the utility company. It costs the customer more to pay by card meter.

[PiedPiper13]

It may have been a landlords private meter.

[237SJ]

It's up to the landlord (although my tenant changed the meter without my permission). I didn't quibble as I was going to sell the place anyway. Good practice would be to come to an agreement about it with an amenable landlord.

[mccfluff]

you say it costs more sandy but i had htis row with eon and the rate im on is a standard tariff on their website and i can check it as the meter displays the rate

[Old_Geezer]

If I were a landlord, and a tenant had to gall to change things like that in my house, I'd be livid. Requests are one thing, but it's not the tenant's property to mess about with.

[pussyfoot]

...I'm so confused now as there are so many conflicting answers!!!!!!!!!!

[Old_Geezer]

:-)
Try asking in the 'legal' forum maybe ? May attract more legally expert responses.

[Peter Pedant]

if he does that he gets me again
and a double posting notice

The answers here seem straightforward
why is it confusing for you ?


PP