Hi,
I am looking for advise please, We had a bad tenant in our house, she signed a lease for one year and she stayed the full year almost to the day, however every month was a struggle with her getting rent etc so we were glad to see her leave.
When she moved in we signed her up with the Prtb, done a proper lease etc to which was in it that all utility bills she was responsible for and done things which we thought correctly, she was to have all bills put into her name gas, electric etc.. We never made her do this as the tenant who was there before her had taken her name off when she moved out, so naturally as you would think there would be no name on bills unless the new tenant rings up for connection.
She moved out in feb this year and only last week I have received a call from a debt collection agency saying I owe them €1200 euro for non payment of gas for the entire year ?? This was the first I had ever heard of it..why did they give her gas supply for a whole year with disconnecting her, Bord gais had sold on the debt to this place and now they are ringing me on my personal mobile number harassing me, when I never even knew there was a penny owed to them and I never took out a new contract with bord gais, Bord gais said that if she didn't sign up for connection that it defaults back to the landlord ? Surely this cannot be correct As my name has not been on a bill in over 3 years ago in that house, we had 3 other tenants since then all with the bill in their own name, how did they get my number ? Was it from Prtb ? Are Bord gais and the
Debt place chancing there arm...
Any advise greatly appreciated..
Thank you
I am looking for advise please, We had a bad tenant in our house, she signed a lease for one year and she stayed the full year almost to the day, however every month was a struggle with her getting rent etc so we were glad to see her leave.
When she moved in we signed her up with the Prtb, done a proper lease etc to which was in it that all utility bills she was responsible for and done things which we thought correctly, she was to have all bills put into her name gas, electric etc.. We never made her do this as the tenant who was there before her had taken her name off when she moved out, so naturally as you would think there would be no name on bills unless the new tenant rings up for connection.
She moved out in feb this year and only last week I have received a call from a debt collection agency saying I owe them €1200 euro for non payment of gas for the entire year ?? This was the first I had ever heard of it..why did they give her gas supply for a whole year with disconnecting her, Bord gais had sold on the debt to this place and now they are ringing me on my personal mobile number harassing me, when I never even knew there was a penny owed to them and I never took out a new contract with bord gais, Bord gais said that if she didn't sign up for connection that it defaults back to the landlord ? Surely this cannot be correct As my name has not been on a bill in over 3 years ago in that house, we had 3 other tenants since then all with the bill in their own name, how did they get my number ? Was it from Prtb ? Are Bord gais and the
Debt place chancing there arm...
Any advise greatly appreciated..
Thank you