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Updated over 4 years ago,

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Problem Tenant - Utilities

Brandon Johnson
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I'll state a bunch of facts and then ask my questions:

-  Tenant lives on the 2nd floor of a 3 floor house that is a legal duplex

-  My father occupies the 3rd-floor space of the duplex, which is basically an efficiency

-  The electricity for the 2nd and 3rd floor are on the same meter

-  After moving in, the tenant could not put electricity in her own name due to credit issues

-  I setup the electric account in my name and added to the lease that the tenant is responsible for anything over 50.00, which my           father  pays as part of the electric and is more than his fair share of the bill

-  The tenant lied on her rental application about having an eviction, which I did not know was underway when she moved in.  Yes, my     screening process failed!

-  The tenant has done nothing but cause problems since she moved in, damaging the garage door, leaving trash on her balcony, refusing to keep home clean, verbally abusing my property manager, refusing to allow for repairs to be done, late rent payments

-  The tenant recently raised concern that my father's water comes from the water heater that she pays the gas bill on

-  This concern never came up in the last 10 months, but now that she does not have the money to pay her rent she has sent my property manager her gas bill, which shows a $900+ balance.  She hasn't paid a gas bill since she moved into the place

-  Because she cannot pay her rent she is threatening (or has called) the gas company to investigate (not sure what they will find, other than that she has not paid her bill) and has called the housing inspector because my father is living on the 3rd floor-

Looking for advice here, what should I do?  

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