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Bill Payment - Previous landlord

  • 24-08-2010 7:06pm
    #1
    pajodublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 994 ✭✭✭


    OK i'll try make this as short as possible.

    Just received a text from a previous landlord telling me to expect a solictors letter for an unpaid utility bill amounting to about 400 or 500 euro.
    I was living with my then girlfriend and we broke up and i moved out of the property.
    She stayed in the property for a number of months thereafter.
    I was notified by the landlord that my ex had moved out of the property without giving notice and just up and left.
    Since then my ex has emigrated.

    The bill is in the Landlords name as HE asked us to keep it that way.
    The bill accumulated from January until June.
    I was unaware of this as i covered other bills and my ex covered this one.
    I was living in the property until March.

    Basically he wants me to pay the bill on her behalf or risk action from a solicitor.
    I lost out on all this too by losing my half of the security deposit. (€400)

    I have not text the landlord back.

    Any ideas?


Comments

  • #2
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    He should really be chasing your ex for this.


  • #3
    pajodublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 994 ✭✭✭pajodublin


    Haddockman wrote: »
    He should really be chasing your ex for this.

    he has no number or forwarding address for her.
    I gave him her number but she appeared to have changed it and now she has emigrated. so that leaves me.


  • #4
    wyndham
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,284 ✭✭✭wyndham


    Was the tenancy PRTB registered?


  • #5
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Did you give him notice when you left in March? If so, then he has no remit to chase you for unpaid bills at this stage - he should have presented them to you when you left.


  • #6
    brehayes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76 ✭✭brehayes


    If it is a joint lease with yourself and your ex, then you would both be liable. You must have received explicit permission from the landlord to leave the lease agreement, otherwise you would be in breach of the lease agreement. Any verbal agreement between your ex and yourself about how bills are sorted out is between ye. Unless the landlord had notice and allowed you to forego the remainder of the lease, you must pay up and you could sue your ex for the monies lost as a verbal arrangement was in place upon which you forebore your right to live in the property.

    Not sure if that makes sense, typing quickly!


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  • #7
    Goodne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 382 ✭✭Goodne


    surely he has no case seeing as the bills are in his name?


  • #8
    pajodublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 994 ✭✭✭pajodublin


    wyndham wrote: »
    Was the tenancy PRTB registered?
    No.
    seamus wrote: »
    Did you give him notice when you left in March? If so, then he has no remit to chase you for unpaid bills at this stage - he should have presented them to you when you left.
    I didn't give notice. Ex was still living there and paying rent after i left
    As far as i remember i did not sign a lease agreement
    brehayes wrote: »
    If it is a joint lease with yourself and your ex, then you would both be liable. You must have received explicit permission from the landlord to leave the lease agreement, otherwise you would be in breach of the lease agreement. Any verbal agreement between your ex and yourself about how bills are sorted out is between ye. Unless the landlord had notice and allowed you to forego the remainder of the lease, you must pay up and you could sue your ex for the monies lost as a verbal arrangement was in place upon which you forebore your right to live in the property.

    Not sure if that makes sense, typing quickly!
    That makes sense but as above, as far as i remember i did not sign a lease agreement.
    Goodne wrote: »
    surely he has no case seeing as the bills are in his name?

    Thats what i thought too

    Still no Solicitors letter...


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