Tenant did gas fraud and british gax took my meter

Biscuit_Tin

zayf wrote: »

Well anyone can claim, they don't have money when it comes to paying up. anything i can do to make this easier and painless

What's the best way forward. Also what if tenant doesn't even show up(hang on, do we have to appear in court for small claims court) ?

Sorry, never done this before.

As others have said, and in order:

1. Ask for deduction from deposit
2. Ask ex-tenant for any shortfall
3. LBA & summons
4. On court judgement and still no payment, you can ask the court to take enforcement action.

Whilst it may be easy for someone to lie to you about financial difficulty, many will baulk at the thought of purjuring themselves in court

chanz4

I can fully confirm, and I have been a rpu officer for years

Bubblebath

chanz4 wrote: »

I can fully confirm, and I have been a rpu officer for years

LOL.

I think Biscuit Tin was hoping on a more reliable source than an anonymous forum poster

Ofgem officials say the industry detects up to 25,000 cases of electricity theft each year

(sorry I can't post links so see revision notes)

The number of rental properties in the UK is about 7.5 million (30% of 25 million) according to BBC
http : // news . bbc. co. uk /1 /shared /spl /hi /guides /456900 /456991/ html/

So even if all electricity theft occurred in rental properties, that would be less than 0.3% per year - hardly "very common"

Of course there is gas theft too and I don't have the figures for that.
But, as the first report says,

Those involved in power supply theft range from single parents on a tight budget to wealthy middle-class households who don't want to pay, landlords, and business owners, with illegal cannabis farmers a particular culprit.

C_Mababejive

If there was a tenancy agreement in place and the utilities had been registered in the delinquent tenants name then i dont see how they could make a claim against the property owner stick. You did get the utilities registered in the new tenants name didnt you?

[Deleted User]

Bubblebath wrote: »

LOL.

I think Biscuit Tin was hoping on a more reliable source than an anonymous forum poster


(sorry I can't post links so see revision notes)

The number of rental properties in the UK is about 7.5 million (30% of 25 million) according to BBC
http : // news . bbc. co. uk /1 /shared /spl /hi /guides /456900 /456991/ html/

So even if all electricity theft occurred in rental properties, that would be less than 0.3% per year - hardly "very common"

Of course there is gas theft too and I don't have the figures for that.
But, as the first report says,

You have got to look a little further than Ofems figures, they are utterly incomplete and ridiculous.The true extent of meter bypassing and tampering is so much higher than that its on a different scale. Every cannabis growing property for a start is doing it free for a start...200,000 thousand alone in the UK. (ok, thats the Daily Mail figures , but I think they are underestimated ) YOU have got to stop trusting a few silly figures from a broken Ofgem and get sensible

Andy_WSM

sacsquacco wrote: »

You have got to look a little further than Ofems figures, they are utterly incomplete and ridiculous.The true extent of meter bypassing and tampering is so much higher than that its on a different scale. Every cannabis growing property for a start is doing it free for a start...200,000 thousand alone in the UK. (ok, thats the Daily Mail figures , but I think they are underestimated ) YOU have got to stop trusting a few silly figures from a broken Ofgem and get sensible

Well to be fair, you're quoting Daily Mail figures, which is even more ridiculous!

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Andy_WSM wrote: »

Well to be fair, you're quoting Daily Mail figures, which is even more ridiculous!

Andy, judging to how many growing farms are being uncovered in my small home town of Doncaster, S.Yorks, the Mails figures are conservative. I speak to very experienced British Gas R.P.U operatives who ve been in the business for many years and they say its flourishing everywhere now especially in any big Northern towns and cities.Not many weeks go s by in my local press without reports of a few new houses being uncovered. Its a growth industry. Meter readers dont uncover many . most are busted through being shopped by other drug dealers