Some advise to last minute changes to a lease sogning

[Maclovio Garcia jr]

Hello my wife and I are about to sign our first tenants on September 1st however we just called our utilities company and we're told that we cannot have tenants transfer the name under your utilities this is our first rental property so we were not aware of this so we don't know if we should just bite the bullet and just pay for utilities itself or should we up the rent to the amount of usually how much the utilities would cost which is generally $300 in our area the tenants were already expecting to pay this bill as we told them no utilities or anything was covered so please let us know what do you think would be best practice we are assuming that we should just bite the bullet and just pay the extra for utilities because it would seem unprofessional but we wanted your input

[John Underwood]

Absolutely have the tenants put all the utilities in their name.

I'd call back and have them explain what is going on. I would think this may be a misunderstanding.