Landlord stopping smart meter

Jackie1813

Thanks everyone. My daughter is going to keep pressing the landlord . She has decided to move out of the flat by the end of April as she is  fed up with the building manager anyhow. Plenty more rentals where she lives. 

Thanks again

Alnat1

Tell her to get the meter changed and save the next tenant the hassle 

macman

wild666 said:

Just wait until they contact saying the meter has come to its end of life then the landlord won't have any option but to have the meters changed.
15 years ago I moved into a flat and there was two energy suppliers and I changed the electric over to BG. If you are the one paying the bills then you should have the right to change suppliers. It should be the same with a meter change if the tenant wants smart meters then they should be able to install them without any notification to the landlord. The only problem would be if the old meters are prepayment and they change them for credit meters maybe the landlord wanted prepayment meters in the property so that the tenants couldn't move out and owe hundreds or thousands of pounds in electric and gas bills!

If they did, it would be no concern of the LL.

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Jackie1813 said:

Thanks everyone. My daughter is going to keep pressing the landlord . She has decided to move out of the flat by the end of April as she is  fed up with the building manager anyhow. Plenty more rentals where she lives. 

Thanks again

Sensible decision, especially since rental availability isn’t a problem. If I had a landlord and their manager acting in a similar manner, I’d be looking at moving, too. Stuff like this, thinking smart meters are a hazard, would leave me concerned about what would come up next with them. I don’t need to agree with my landlord on every matter, but trying to reason with flat-earthers and similar types—I’d leave them to it.

70sbudgie

There is the possibility that the building manager's responsibilities for which they are paid includes reading meters at beginning / end of tenancies. Although a smart meter shouldn't have any effect on this, the building manager could see smart meters as a hazard to their income?

Another comment that the OP raised is that the meter isn't in the property, but the grounds. Again, it shouldn't be an issue, but perhaps access to the meter is of concern to the buidling manager?