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Originally Posted by smicer07
Hi there. Long time no see 
Me and my girlfriend are about to rent a house off my brother in law. He's going abroad to work, indefinitely, and has offered a good rate for us to stay in his home. However, I have a couple of questions, if anyone can help!
1) Is it worth us changing the electric/gas/water bills into our own name or should I leave them in the landlord's name?
2) Regarding the boiler- should we be paying the boiler cover or should the landlord deal with that?
3) Council tax. Currently he's got single owner deduction- I assume we'll have to contact the council and put this in our name?
Cheers for any help! |
I also rent off my brother-in-law and can tell you that :-
A). He pays for boiler Maintenance
B). We have all the bills in our name (Water, gas etc)
C). Council Tax has to be notified..
Again this is a long term let so same as your case I would do the above...
Also we have a Tenancy Agreement in place like another user has sad, done it through a local estate agent and this is also valuable if you need to claim some Housing/Council Tax Benefit as you are entitled to claim from a family members property as long as local Council can see it`s all above board (I`m on low income not a dole btw :0) )