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Shared Utilities/Residential Mail Delivery

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ShaylaSioux

Junior Member
What is the name of your state? California


Residential Mail Delivery:

There are 2 buildings with 2 units each in which are rented out on the same property where the owner lives. We have a physical address which would be the same as the landlords, no unit a, b or otherwise are assigned to either building or units. None of the tentants are allowed to receive mail to the address and are required to rent a box off the property. One tentant said this is illegal that either the landlord needed to add the unit a b c etc and provide residental mail delivery or pay the off sit box rental each month. Is this true?

Shared Utilities:

Upon moving in we were told that the gas and elec was due on the 15th of each month and is divided up by number of people occupying each unit. We moved in the 1st of December 2006 and the tenant renting the other unit in the building mine is in moved the middle of December. Neither of us have received a bill or dollar amount for the gas or electric since we occupied the units. Now the landlord is responsible for providing us with a copy of the utility bill and how she calculated each units charges and its her responsibility to give us these in a sufficent time to be paid by the required 15th of each month written in the lease. Now since she has not, can she say when she pulls her head out of where ever it is give the tentants a bill for 2 or 3 or evan 4 months or is there a time limit on which she is required to bill us for and we are responsibile in paying?
 


Cvillecpm

Senior Member
You have no RIGHT to mail delivery. It is a service and you can choose not to rent the property under such arrangements or rent a commercial box or get your mail at your work.

This is becoming more common where the USPS will not separate mail and the # of units is not sufficient for the USPS to install a "gang or multi-box pedistal". Your landlord does not want responsibility for accepting and delivering your mail....certainly his right.


NO - landlord can bill whenever they wish....you should be budgeting for utility bills if you don't want a BIG BILL in several months. Obviously the landlord has some pro-ration issues with the other resident move-ins which need to be addressed which is why it is taking so long to get the bills out.
 

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