My way of doing it:

- Maintain own name for utilities
- Send utility bills to tenants every month
- Pay on behalf of tenants
- If things goes south, I have the utility deposit to cover and IC of tenant to report police

To me I don't think changing the utilities to the tenants name is worth the hassle, both for me and also to the tenants. Anyway even if the name is under the tenant and he forfeited, your unit will be impacted as well.

Either way landlord don't win.

Landlord don't clear the outstanding, there will be no future connections unless you want let it vacant forever. So ctos doesnt come in.

U can maintain the name but do monitor the usage with the app. Once hit certain amount, call the tenant and query. It they pay then ok. If not, red flag.

Show your muscles and tell him you want back your property 🤣.