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Very long story. My daughter signed a lease on her first shop which was 1/3 of a larger unit that used to be a McColls supermarket. 2 of the units owned by one landlord and the 3rd we rent by a different landlord. Our landlord has put a breeze block wall back up and we have rented the space.
Shoot forward we had no idea the problems this would cause. Firstly and mainly our unit has the power for the entire 3 units and having done all our sums on her business not for one minute did we imagine we would inherit an enormous electricity disaster
My daughter cleans shoes as a business her electricity usage is approx £100 a month but with the previous tenant having stored power and half hour meter we are paying 20.20 per day standing charge and huge unit charges as they seem our usage not enough to offer a contract. We are essentially not in contract. Our bills are £1000 a month for £100 actual usage of power.
We have paid for months but simply can’t anymore. The only way to stop the supply is to pay 5000 we don’t have to have it cut off by the grid.
We have now stopped using any power and are running her usage from my premises next door - stupidly I thought we would call and pay the final bill and that’s that but no - n power need a name to move supply too - our landlord suggested we give the details of the landlords of the other units not his! We will remain tenants but close the company and she will trade as a sole trader - this was our landlords suggestion. Whoever’s we give we are apparently responsible for the standing charges until
Someone else takes over and agrees it’s their bill.
We have no choice but to wind up the company which the energy bills are billing and is a limited company - I know this won’t guarantee us they won’t come after my daughter privately but it’s a start
Anyone any other suggestions or does anything think we have any comeback on our landlord who should surly have told us as a tiny “one woman” business the building we are about to rent from him on a ten year lease is trapped paying energy to supply an entire supermarket - he said nothing at all we had no idea just expected it would be a usual meter like the one we have in our other business with acceptable costs per month.
Similarly because the landlord didn’t separate the buildings formally we are also being chased for business rates where we should be getting small business rate relief - this landlord seems to have really conned us!
Thinking if we apply to shut business on companies house but keep paying the bills until then they won’t be able to object as we won’t have debt with them - we are not in contract as they won’t give us one - we are using no energy?
Sorry for the very long post has anyone ever experienced anything like this?
Shoot forward we had no idea the problems this would cause. Firstly and mainly our unit has the power for the entire 3 units and having done all our sums on her business not for one minute did we imagine we would inherit an enormous electricity disaster
My daughter cleans shoes as a business her electricity usage is approx £100 a month but with the previous tenant having stored power and half hour meter we are paying 20.20 per day standing charge and huge unit charges as they seem our usage not enough to offer a contract. We are essentially not in contract. Our bills are £1000 a month for £100 actual usage of power.
We have paid for months but simply can’t anymore. The only way to stop the supply is to pay 5000 we don’t have to have it cut off by the grid.
We have now stopped using any power and are running her usage from my premises next door - stupidly I thought we would call and pay the final bill and that’s that but no - n power need a name to move supply too - our landlord suggested we give the details of the landlords of the other units not his! We will remain tenants but close the company and she will trade as a sole trader - this was our landlords suggestion. Whoever’s we give we are apparently responsible for the standing charges until
Someone else takes over and agrees it’s their bill.
We have no choice but to wind up the company which the energy bills are billing and is a limited company - I know this won’t guarantee us they won’t come after my daughter privately but it’s a start
Anyone any other suggestions or does anything think we have any comeback on our landlord who should surly have told us as a tiny “one woman” business the building we are about to rent from him on a ten year lease is trapped paying energy to supply an entire supermarket - he said nothing at all we had no idea just expected it would be a usual meter like the one we have in our other business with acceptable costs per month.
Similarly because the landlord didn’t separate the buildings formally we are also being chased for business rates where we should be getting small business rate relief - this landlord seems to have really conned us!
Thinking if we apply to shut business on companies house but keep paying the bills until then they won’t be able to object as we won’t have debt with them - we are not in contract as they won’t give us one - we are using no energy?
Sorry for the very long post has anyone ever experienced anything like this?
