Q: My landlord told me that I am responsible for coming up with an arrangement with the other tenants to shield their portion of the utility sumptuousnesss or pay all the bill myself.

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Q: My landlord told me that I am responsible for coming up with an arrangement with the other tenants to shield their portion of the utility sumptuousnesss or pay all the bill myself. If I do not like this, he has told me to prompt He gave me one week to decide. Is it legal for him to force this upon me?

A. The Illinois Rental attribute Utility Service Act requires the landlord to inform a tenant when utility service, flowing between the walls of that tenant's meter, will be used by dint of anyone other than that tenant's household.

The law states the landlord can neither hint nor require the tenant to garner up any money for utility bills from the neighbor.

Telling you to make an arrangement with the other tenants appears to violate the IRPUSA. Because these changes take tenor at the start of a of recent origin lease, you have been informed, and you can pitch upon to sign or not. The law looks to offer little practical counteractive

The take-it-or-leave-it condition have the appearances harsh, but renters have no right to a lease renewal, save when there is retaliatory leadership by the landlord for a tenant's harbored activities. The new lease might be shaken later as "unconscionable" if the additional utility costlinesss were not stated in the lease.

take counsel a tenants' rights lawyer.

Write mediator ed Sacks at Apartment Watch, Real Estate, Chicago Sun-Times, 350 N Orleans, Chicago 60654 or you can propel an e-mail to: apartmentwatch@suntimesmail.com.

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