help with rental agreement

rocketman08
Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:02:01 +0000

I agree that living with a relative of the landlord seems to be asking for trouble unless you’re previously on good terms with the parties involved.

As for utilities, they’re often not part of the lease (e.g. rent) and residents are responsible for sorting it all out on their own. In those cases the landlord is providing the property to live in but the residents must setup the utilities (generally just calling the utility company to setup a new account). Who pays for what and in what fraction is then up to the residents to sort out on their own. Back in college when I lived in a house with four others we just split each of the bills five ways.