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Pre-Payment Meter Standing Charges.

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If somebody moves into a new house and there are pre-paid meters as used by the previous owner, is the new owner responsible for any standing charges if no electricity or gas is consumed for a period of months? The new owner has not contracted with the energy suppliers in his own name or credited the meters with a key thingy.


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    Difficult, the previous account holders supplier may block a move to to a different supplier and clearing the debt from the meter won’t be easy.


    I have told this story before on the old forum, I did some work for a void maintenance company on a house in repossession that the building society had placed into a holding company and was going to let out. The was over £700 debt on the prepayment meter and the maintenance company was instructed to go down the local corner shop and put over £700 credit on the meter to ripe the debt so that the agents acting for the building society could get a tenant moved in asap.


    I have never got directly involved in try to sort out prepayment meter debts, but the buy to let landlords I do work for moan like hell when they have to. I’m not sure of the legality of holding back the tenants deposit until any debts on gas and electric meters are settled, but it seems the obvious thing to do, so long as someone remembers to check if they have left the meters in debt.


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    Difficult, the previous account holders supplier may block a move to to a different supplier and clearing the debt from the meter won’t be easy.


    I have told this story before on the old forum, I did some work for a void maintenance company on a house in repossession that the building society had placed into a holding company and was going to let out. The was over £700 debt on the prepayment meter and the maintenance company was instructed to go down the local corner shop and put over £700 credit on the meter to ripe the debt so that the agents acting for the building society could get a tenant moved in asap.


    I have never got directly involved in try to sort out prepayment meter debts, but the buy to let landlords I do work for moan like hell when they have to. I’m not sure of the legality of holding back the tenants deposit until any debts on gas and electric meters are settled, but it seems the obvious thing to do, so long as someone remembers to check if they have left the meters in debt.


    Andy
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