Re: Why should I have to pay other tenants bill?

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What can you do? hmmm let me see:

Apply for Low income help from the Electric Co and or the
Water Department? (explain your situation to WD and Electric
Co., and they will also have some sugestions or maybe have
monetary help for you, a few States do help for low income
families)

Take your next door neighbors to Small Claims and sue them
or the Landlord?

But if you win at Small claims, who is going to collect the
$ from them? winning in Court doesn't mean the defendant is
going to pay you, a few do, and the majority don't

Make sure you read the Lease/Contract/month to month tenancy
very careful

I hope this will help you with some ideas

Star

On 11/02/05, turquoisegal wrote:
> Ok here it goes. Last February we rented an apartment out
> in the country its a townhouse us and our neighbors.Well
we
> have a well pump.Well we had got our electric bill and
> noticed it was rather high well needless to say we fell
> behind and got our electric shut off only to find out we
> were paying for the water for the neighbors to use
also.The
> landlord never told us we had to pay for the other
> tenants.In fact he told us it was our responsibility to
> keep the power on so they could have water.Let alone these
> neighbors are spiteful people they our noisy and when you
> call the police on them they yell threats to keep the
water
> running.The pump has run dry twice now and they also had a
> rather huge garden this past summer.The landlord said the
> tenant should not be using the water for the garden well
> summers done and so is the damamage on our electric
bill.Im
> tired of paying for someone else.The excuse I get from the
> landlord is the other tenants pay for the light in the
> driveway which I might add they park in my space and Im
> parked in the dark.This well pump is a 220 line and you
> should see our meter.Our elecric bill is 200. a month.They
> have an older daughter who comes to take showers and wash
> her clothes too.What can I do legally?