3 ms·

You missed a crucial step: 1.5: owner gets fed up of paying tenant's bills, installs prepay meters

• gambiting 9y ago
  I don't know what kind of setup would require this, I've had 8 different rental properties in UK so far and every single time the gas/electricity were in my name, not in the landlord's name.
  • dazc 9y ago
    At lower end of the market it's more common, AFAIK, especially these houses where they've split them into 3 or 4 seperate units (multi-occupancy) and it's impractical to have 3/4 different metered supplies. In my younger days I had a bedsit with a coin-meter even though there was a separate meter in the hallway. Landlord had it set to a crazy high rate so he was making a profit on it. One day two guys forcibly entered the building to cut off the supply because he hadn't been paying the bill. According to them, my set up wasn't exactly unique.
• thriftwy 9y ago
  Usually, when tenant is incapable of paying bills, he becomes ex-tenant.