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If I pay the utility bill, does there have to be a single meter for each apartment?

1/11/2022

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Yes. If the landlord wants you to pay for regulated utilities separately, they must be separately metered. So, for example, in a three unit building, there must be meters for each of the apartments and for the common area. The common area is the landlord’s responsibility. If the units are not separately metered, the landlord must pay the utility bill and include it as part of the rental price.

​If the tenants suspect the meters are not separate, they may ask the utility company to investigate whether there is a “foreign load.” If there is, the utility will put the bill in the landlord’s name and not change it until the wiring has been corrected. The landlord cannot begin an eviction action or raise the rent because the tenants report a foreign load. Retaliation is prohibited under the law. The court should refuse to evict the tenant and may award damages if the tenant files a cross complaint.
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Rivera
6/2/2022 08:21:31 pm

I live for 4 years in a building Hyman property because he is rich he can’t do whatever he wants in my original lease I paid 25 dollars for sewer.garbage.and water… ok start in march 2022 he starts buting letters that separate from the 25 dollars that I paid for the bills we needs to paid for
A company out of satate for sewer.water..and garbage we don’t have no documentation that
We needs to paid every month 2 times we don’t have meters for sewer water the change every month the amount the company is in San Diego don’t belongs here they cheering because the send one of the handyman to fo the reading and send every one diferente amount this is legal what they doing I need help we needs help and low income people he don’t paid nothing in this building the owner needs to paid not us I paid a lot is not fear ok what they doing they put cámara fine but we do not needs to paid for that too ok is absolutely terrible thanks and check this important matter’s

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