I am in Ohio and we rented a house. On the property of the house, the man who owned the home prior to our current landlord still operates a business out of a garage on the premise. Since the garage uses electricity that the tenant pays, the landlord and the business owner made an agreement for the business owner to pay the tenant $25/mn toward the electric bill. The landlord then promised us, potential tenants at the time, that we would receive $25/mn. Well in the last year the business owner has made no payments and we are now moving out. Because the agreement was between the business owner and the landlord and we have never met the business owner or discussed it with him, is the landlord required to pay us the sum of $300 due to creating a verbal contract with us(despite it not being in the lease). My thought is that he made a binding agreement with us for the money, much like the business owner made an agreement with him. I think legally the landlord should have to pay us, and then himself seek restitution from the business owner. Am I correct?