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  1. #1
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    Default legally can someone shut off a roommates electricity?

    my boyfriend has a roommate who has continuously caused problems and has been very threatening, he's been asked to move and refuses, stating 'i'll make life hell here for you'...he's on the lease so we can't kick him out, but the electricity is in my boyfriend's name only, as well as the cable tv...legally can access to these amenities be turned off to said roommate's room, since they are in my boyfriend's name? sounds vindictive and immature, i know, but we're literally at our wit's end.

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    Default Problem Roommate

    Yes, but... nothing would stop the roommate from turning them back on in his own name. (And things would be pretty miserable for your boyfriend in the interim.)

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    what i was going to do was flip the switches on the breaker box that go to his room, and then padlock it....so there would have been electricity every where else. but i found a better solution, that actually worked. other people with roommate problems might actually want to try this solution. i threatened to call his mother, and poof..problem child gone :wink:

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