Re: Landlord accounts-utilities - Landlord Forum thread 357706

Re: Landlord accounts-utilities by Anonymous on June 11, 2018 @14:18

I'm in Washington State, all my utilities are set up similar to Nichole's. That is they automatically switch to me when the tenant vacates. As for notification of termination notices, only the utility that can put a lien on my property notifies me of this. The electric & gas can't put a lien on my property so I never get notified about tenant problems.

When my son & I had properties in Texas we couldn't set up anything like what I have now. For electricity there it's the wild west with multiple vendors and the tenant can pick his own vendor. We looked into setting up the automatic switch over to us but we were told we had to be a lot bigger (many more units). My son's work around was to switch the electricity back into our name a couple days before the tenant left. He found that the cost of a couple day's electricity was a lot less than the re-connect charge if we let the tenant stop the service.

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