More Roommate Problems

Decent_6Chora · March 8, 2010, 6:37pm

Do you have any written agreement with her? on sharing an apartment and splitting utilities?

Our electric bill. Now she is no longer paying her half. I called the electric company to see if they can start splitting the bill and sending her half the billing amount, and they said they cannot do that. In fact, they require only ONE person on the electric bill and cannot hold two people responsible for the same unit (which is weird…I thought husbands and wives can both be put on an account). They said putting two names is only for mailing purposes. But the person responsible (person who’s credit is affected for nonpayments) is only ONE person. And of course, I am that one person, not realizing that she would be backstabbing me like this.

I have sent her some reminders but no check.

I am going to wait, but what can I do in this situation now? I think this may be a ploy to withold payments, and then for me to eventually say, go have the electric bill in your name and I’ll write you a check for half…in which case…does that give her more control over the apartment? Like if I wanted to continue living here next year, would that give her a hold over the apartment?

It’s 30 dollars she owes me honestly, and I don’t want to start throwing around legal letters for 30 bucks at this point.