Salt River Project SRP Put somebody else's debt into my name and credit. mesa, Arizona
First some back story. I live with some roommates, I'm a college student, so all the rooms are sub leased. One of my roommates use to have a srp account but allowed it to go to collections (keep in mind her debt was already in collections in her name). I paid the deposit required to have it put in my name so we could be on a plan and stop paying for mpower. Then one day i get a letter informing me that i owe srp my roomates debt. I was never informed of this during the process of setting up an account at any time. Why should I have somebody elses debt in my name, this debt was never mine. SRP you are theifs!
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Flynrider
Phoenix,Arizona,
USA
Why they do this.
#2Consumer Comment
Wed, March 13, 2013
You're finding out the power company's answer to the roommates game. The "roommates game" goes like this. Roommate #1 stiffs SRP on serveral months of electric bills, then Roomate #2 puts the account in their name and eventually stiffs them for another few months. Eventually Roomate #3, #4 and so on repeat the process. This was very common until the power companies acted to discourage it.
If you lived in the house when roommate #1 stiffed them on the bill, they're saying that you can't get around paying by just changing the account holder's name. All of the roommates used electricity that was not paid for.
If, by chance, you were not living there when roommate #1 stiffed them, then you are finding out what happens when you associate yourself with deadbeats. They probably can't force you to pay the deadbeat's bill, but they can refuse to sell electricity to all of you until they're paid what they are rightfully owed.