Facing high electricity bill after cannabis factory

Hasbeen

JC_Derby said:

JJ_Egan said:

Landlords insurance ???

that is the way i would go too.

Sorry. But in my opinion absolutely no chance at all. Insurance is there to safeguard landlord for destruction of property to install cannabis equipment.

Not to help someone that has to legally pay bills that is in their own name. 

macman

I don't suppose the police would let you have the crop back to sell if you showed them the leccy bill...?

damtom85

macman said:

I don't suppose the police would let you have the crop back to sell if you showed them the leccy bill...?

Funny, not.

At the moment the insurance is sending loss adjuster as there was damage to property done as well. 

macman

In theory you can sue the tenant for damages, but I assume that their ID and references were false and they will be untraceable?

Cardew

If electricity meter was bypassed, what electricity bills were sent to you for payment?

Hasbeen

Cardew said:

If electricity meter was bypassed, what electricity bills were sent to you for payment?

Most common types of bypass still allow a certain amount of power to reach meter, to allay any suspicion. So still bills but low amounts to what is actually used.

The majority of power is bypassed before or at the meter.

tim_p

Hasbeen said:

Cardew said:

If electricity meter was bypassed, what electricity bills were sent to you for payment?

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The majority of power is bypassed before or at the meter.

Is there anywhere else then?

macman

Presumably, they would have only wired the new unmetered circuits to the lights in the growing areas, probably in the loft. Everything else at the meter would seem entirely normal, as the OP has reported, and the metered consumption and billing would be quite normal. 
Only a meter safety check would possibly have picked this up. The tenants were obviously confident enough to have the LL inspecting the property inside. It's a most unusual case.

unforeseen

macman said:

In theory you can sue the tenant for damages, but I assume that their ID and references were false and they will be untraceable?

Yes, but on prison earnings it take take a hundred years to pay it off

macman

unforeseen said:

macman said:

In theory you can sue the tenant for damages, but I assume that their ID and references were false and they will be untraceable?

Yes, but on prison earnings it take take a hundred years to pay it off

OP said 'police never caught the tenant'. Who would have been little more than a caretaker anyway, it takes bigger money and organisation to set up an operation as slick as this one apparently was.