i lived in this house for 1 year now, and am moving out this month, this landlord is horrible, he doesn't fix anything, he won't listen to my complaints, there is mold in the basement and he wont get rid of it, and i have a 4 month old baby! the furnace is broke and it leaks oil, he also wont pay to get that fixed or replaced, this is an older home and i understand older home has more problems, but he is the landlord, and he should be aware of that also. So since i am moving this month, he decided to hit me with a $1500 phone bill, when i moved into this house the phone line was still hooked up. but it was a fax line, he did not tell me about the phone and that there was even a phone line already hooked up. So i used it, nowhere in the lease does it say anything about a phone bill i had to pay, i never intended to get a house phone anyway. I know he is a slumlord because he told me i have to transfer the electric bill into my name, and i called the electric company and they told me the landlord had to cut of the power because it was in his name, and he never did, so it was an agreement that it stay remained in his name and i just pay whatever the bill was, which was fine. but as for te phone bill there was no verbal agreement nor an agreement in writing, it was his fault he didnt cut of the phone, or inform me not to use the line, since infact it was a phone line, he is a slumlord and i want to know if i have to pay that bill, or if i dont i will get a lawyer because it is not in the lease that i have to pay for a phone bill.

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also every other utilies is included in the rent, water, sewer, but i pay for trash and oil, and he pays for the cable, and everything that i am suppose to pay for is indicated in the rent and agreed to, and even the cable is int the rent saying that he pays for it, but the phone is nowhere in the rent, and he did not mention anything to me, so i assumed he paid for it since all the utilies are included in the rent, i pay1700 a month for this place so he didnt tell me otherwise that the phone was my resposiblilty