Okay so I think it's probably a bit of both but stressing out about a situation!
I'm self employed and rent small business premises to work from and I've just found out I haven't been paying electric for two years!
Basically, before the two years I used to be sent invoices by the landlords agent which included electricity. It was named on the invoice and it was paid by the landlord and then invoiced to me. I always paid this along with rent and service charges.
Two years ago they sold and another landlord took over. I was receiving invoices for rent and service charges as normal from the agent and (stupidly) assumed it included the electricity as it always had. They'd put the rent up quite significantly so I just didn't really notice the difference in the amounts.
Anyway, looking to now move and I'm looking at all the paperwork and it doesn't seem that I've been invoiced for electric by the agent at all since the new landlord took over! However it's in the lease that it's my responsibility to pay for (obviously).
A few other tenants in the block are the same and we are all panicking.
Who's at fault here?! The electric was never in my name it was always in the landlords and then their agents just invoiced me. I've never been asked to do anything different to that and I assume when the landlord sold he would have given the providers details to the new landlord as the account was his not mine if that makes sense?
I should have checked though I know!