Landlord wants to remove Utility bills from Rent.

SquatNow

To answer the original question, the answer is simple:

The landlord could ask the tennants to take on the bills and possibly renegotiate on the rent.

The tennants could accept or refuse the new deal.

If the tennants accept it, all is well.

If the tennants refuse it the landlord can either leave things as they are or give the tennants 2 months notice.

It's worth noting that other than tennants leaving the heating on and windows open (which is highly unlikely) much of the energy usage of the house is decided by the landlord. Insulation? Efficient light fittings? Some of those chandelier type fitting can take 7 40 watt bulbs... thats 280 watts!!! I know of a house with those fittings in every room, and dimmer switches throughout... more than 50 40watt bulbs!!! (Dimmer switches stop people using energy saving bulbs). The tennants can leave every light in the house on, but if the landlord has fitted low-energy light bulbs that might only be 40watts total!!! And in a well insulated house, having the heating on non-stop would be UNBEARBALE!

owitemisermusa

Bungarm2001 wrote: »

You are wrong...there is a huge incentive out there for LL's to invest in efficient boilers, insulation etc etc It's called Landlord Registration and to get this, a LL has to comply with the HHSR's or s/he could be liable to hefty fines. (Part of the HHSRS deals with temperatures etc if I remember correctly...could look it up)

There is also the EPC inspection/intrusion(energy performance certificate) which frankly, is a load of nonsense, but nevertheless, LL's are required to submit to this farcical bit of erroneous legislation or again be subject to a fine.

Of course, responsible LL's who do consider the welfare of their tenants and the condition of their properties will already have all these requirements in place regardless of whether they are required by law or not. The dodgy LL's who are supposedly being targeted by these particular 'rules' of course will continue to duck and dive and give the rest of us a bad name.

Hi Bungarm, useful post as always.

I've googled HHRS and I cannot find anything concrete about it and what it entails. Where can I get such info?
Also wrt registration, do you mean registering with the council?

Thanks.

edit: I've found some stuff on the comunities website so will need to do some reading. It appears it's voluntary self- assessments with local council assessment when requested by tenants.

3plus1

zzzLazyDaisy wrote: »

Not without their consent he couldn't.

I've had bills put in my name without my consent before.

Iny my last property, which was a shared house, my housemates put several of the bills in my name. In my current property, which is a flat I share with my partner, our landlord has put the bills in my name (mainly because he keeps forgetting OH's name, lol). In both cases, I didn't have a problem with this - but my point is, bills can be put in your name without your consent. Don't assume you have to agree to anything!