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Can our landlord make us pay electric and gas bill when we live in a duplex?
Seattle, WA
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Posted 9 months ago in Landlord / Tenant
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We live in a duplex. Our landlord receives one gas bill and one electric bill for the duplex. When we first moved in she payed both bills which was part of our lease agreement. Recently she started making us pay half the bill and the family who lives in the other half of the duplex the other half of the bill. Can she do that even though we have no control how much gas and electricity the neighbors use. We are no longer on a lease and just on a month to month basis.
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Stuart Alan Heller
This attorney is licensed in Washington.
Posted 9 months ago.
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If your lease says that the landlord is to pay for the gas and electricity for your part of the duplex, then unless that has been amended or the lease allows changes during during your "holdover" (month to month) tenancy, she is obligated to pay them. A review of your lease would be necessary to look at those things and provide better advice.
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