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water bill issues with landlord

By Heather

We get an invouce from our landlord for water.  They tend to not send us the bill often and cause us to fall behind paying them water.  They say they are not worried about it since it is their fault.  On the other hand I found out that they haven’t paid the water since sept themselves and we paid for every month except dec since we didn’t receive an invoice.  This is the 2nd time this happened.  Is this considered a breach of contract?  Should I start sending our rent and water bill money to escrow?  Can I leave and go to a new company and still get my security deposit back?

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Edited on: Thursday, January 20th, 2011 1:19 pm
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heather

January 20th, 2011 1:25 pm

i don’t know how to edit the info but we don’t live in WA we live in OH

Jennifer

August 9th, 2011 9:41 am

We moved to this wonderful house for 4 months. Landlord set us to take over the account in case to pay our own water bill. But the City of El Monte requires a “water meter service charge” for $28/month. I wonder if this is part of the tenant’s responsibility as utility or it’s the landlord’s responsibility since she’s the owner of the property. We have paid off for the first 4 months for $110 something, shall we keep on paying the water meter or just pay for the water usage?
Thank you.

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