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    Default Re: Excessive Gas Use by a Tenant

    Quote Quoting Mr. Knowitall
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    Read your lease and tell us what it says about utilities and propane.

    If the lease provides that you, as landlord, will provide all propane for heating, then you have to provide all of the propane at your own expense.

    Lease states that tenant is responsible for all utilities.

    If the lease provides that the tenant is responsible for the cost of all propane, the tenant may still have a claim against you based upon the improper wiring of the furnace.

    If the tenant has been in residence for three years, with that term ending in July, how is it that the issue is coming up for the first time this winter?
    There was an issue with the heat pump/AC in the summer and the thermostat was also replaced. The fault was not in the furnace wiring but rather it seems that the thermostat had been wired to draw only from the furnace not from the heatpump. I can only assume that during the repair the mistake was made and installation of the thermostat put the furnace as primary rather than the heatpump. The furnace itself is only 2 years old and worked perfectly last winter, so the fault was not in the initial installation. The tenant has stated in email that she was "without heat for a month" and that the system was "running constantly" but as I said, she did not notify us until 18 Nov and the repairman was out in 2 days. At other times, the story changed to 3 weeks and she also said "I used only minimal heat during October and didn't even turn on the heat until some time in November" Her stories always seem to change.

    To clarify - the house is not without heat. There is a 2 zone system - only one unit was not working properly and 2 woodstoves.

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