PM paying evicted tenants utilities from landlord's account

[Shikha Gandhi]

Hello,

my property mgmt evicted a tenant (hadnt paid rent in 6 months) on an SFM in memphis. now PM is adding evicted tenants utilities bills of over $1000 to my ledger. I have no idea why property mgmt is paying for evicted tenants bills from my account.

I have also moved on to a different property mgmt company, so they keep billing me without answering my questions or stopping to bill me for ex tenant's bills

has anyone paid for evicted tenants bill post eviction? 

[Adam Martin]

I agree that the paying the utilities for a tenant you are evicting seems ridiculous and wouldn't be happy about it either.  You are south of me so this may not matter to you but here if we let the utilities get turned off the pipes would freeze and I would be out a lot more than a thousand dollars.  Is this a problem in your area because if so you may have lost the battle with the utilities but won the war without your house being destroyed.