Help! Been paying neighbours electric bill for 14 years!

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Hi,

sonypc100 said:
Moving forward, garage 2 has a property above it owned by the landlord (sorry it gets complex) so what they are going to do is take a feed from the property above garage 2 and feed it down into the garage below to use for lights, garage door and some sockets - this means no sub meter, second MPAN and account and no additional standing charges.

Then my feed/smart meter will stay in garage 2 and only be used for what I consume in garage 1 as all garage 2's usage will be removed from my meter.

We've also agreed that we will come to some arrangement over the last 14 years over standing charges (I'm not chasing them for usage) and once worked out they will pay me a reasonable amount to cover half the charges.

does landlord pay the bills for property above garage 2 or is there a tenant?

sonypc100

frugalmacdugal said:

Hi,

sonypc100 said:
Moving forward, garage 2 has a property above it owned by the landlord (sorry it gets complex) so what they are going to do is take a feed from the property above garage 2 and feed it down into the garage below to use for lights, garage door and some sockets - this means no sub meter, second MPAN and account and no additional standing charges.

Then my feed/smart meter will stay in garage 2 and only be used for what I consume in garage 1 as all garage 2's usage will be removed from my meter.

We've also agreed that we will come to some arrangement over the last 14 years over standing charges (I'm not chasing them for usage) and once worked out they will pay me a reasonable amount to cover half the charges.

does landlord pay the bills for property above garage 2 or is there a tenant?

This will be a soon to be tenanted property which will also have use of the garage underneath it (garage 2) so the tenant will pay the electric bill which will cover house and garage use - the landlord is the owner of the property and the flat below it

Reed_Richards

sonypc100 said:

In the 60/70's my flat used to own both garage 1 and garage 2! I had no idea!

Hence why 1 feed/supply/meter was put in to cover them both

I did query this earlier because it seemed an obvious explanation for why there was only one meter.  It would not surprise me if when you looked through all the ancillary documents that tend to come with your deeds you would find this sale recorded.  But I'm pleased that you resolved the problem so well; no wine involved but hey ho.