2007-06-12 06:47:39 · 18 answers · asked by jay ceesall 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Renting & Real Estate
Your lease and/or rental agreement should cover responsibility for payment of utilities. Given that the utilities were probably changed to your name when you took occupancy, the debt is yours.
2007-06-12 06:50:25 · answer #1 · answered by acermill 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
you have grounds for a "effective eviction", that's the place you are able to notify the owner and flow out completely, with the hire void, aside from the return of the deposits. you are able to flow each and every on occasion interior of a few hours of the area is that undesirable. And no water for 2 weeks, and an 80,000 gallon leak in12 days is that undesirable ... ... seem up the residential landlord and tenant regulations on your state and get the papers sent out NOW. it somewhat is decrease than "Failure to maintain". The landlords legal duty is to maintain the premises in a habitably condiiton,and a swimming-pool's properly worth of water decrease than the domicile isn't liveable. As for the bill, you may ought to pay it, yet you are able to sue the owner for the version the broken pipe made using failure to maintain - the version between final twelve months and this twelve months is actual looking. you additionally can sue for return of the lease for the time the placement is uninhabitable.
2016-10-17 01:03:06 · answer #2 · answered by owen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The owner doesn't have to pay anything if they don't want to. The only reason they do is to secure more renters. If there is someone willing to rent the property w/o anything paid then it is the renters duty to pay any and all utillities. Also, if the renter does not ask about what is paid by the landlord before signing the contract, then you are bound by contract to pay.
2007-06-12 07:15:02 · answer #3 · answered by Sara 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not in CA. The only state that I'm aware of that mandates the landlord to pay any utility at all is MA water bills. Other than that, it's up to the landlord and tenant to negotiate.
2007-06-12 06:58:02 · answer #4 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not unless your lease says that some particular utility will be provided. Most of the time, the tenant pays utilities.
2007-06-12 06:50:46 · answer #5 · answered by Judy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As far as Renter's Rights,I'd check with the California Dept of Housing or the local Housing Authority.
2007-06-12 06:50:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not inless both parties agreed to it before signing the lease ( and it states what the owner will be paying and what your to pay) if you didnt sign a lease then you still have to pay they arent living their using the water, pg&e, cable and throwing out trash
2007-06-12 06:51:43 · answer #7 · answered by Do I know you? ya right LoL 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The owners should have mad that clear in the lease. They don't have no responsibility for utilities. They have responsibility for sanitation but that's about it.
2007-06-12 06:50:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Typically the owner is responsible for sewer and water, but you are responsible for electric, gas, and phone.
2007-06-12 06:50:30 · answer #9 · answered by Scotty Doesnt Know 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No you pay them all from the first day you live there till the last day you leave.
2007-06-12 06:50:18 · answer #10 · answered by Petra 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋