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Assuming you are in the US, I would immediately call the utility company, and set up an account in your own name.I cannot imagine renting a residence without having utilities in my own name.That being said, there is no ‘winning’ an eviction. You might not be evicted, but your landlord will continue with this kind of behavior until you leave. My advice is find a new place.

I recently sent my tenants an eviction notice which I believe they have received. I sent them a reminder text to shovel property & 1 of them blocked my number. What should I do?No, you didn’t send them an eviction notice. An eviction notice is a court order, signed by a judge. It is served and posted by law enforcement officials, not a landlord.You might have sent them a notice that you INTEND to evict them, but that’s a totally different thing.But unless the notices are served by licensed process servers, or sent via certified mail, you have no proof that you sent them anything or that they received anything. If you try to go to court, they will - rightly so - claim they never got any notices. Since you have no proof that they did, the judge will dismiss your claim and you’ll have to start all over again.You might also have (as you were supposed to do) sent them a “cure or quit” notice for the unshoveled walk. I’m assuming that “shoveling the walk” is included in the lease as a tenant responsibility. If it’s not, you cannot evict them for not doing so.

Most of the time, if a landlord refuses rent it is because there is a history of noncompliance with the lease and the landlord has had enough of it. The landlord refused to accept the rent because if they did they wouldn’t be able to go through with the eviction.EditLet me be a bit more clear here. This situation normally occurs when the tenant is already late on the rent and past the time period by which they can pay and halt an eviction. Normally, this occurs when there is a tenant who is constantly late with their rent and the landlord is tired of it. If the landlord accepts the rent they cannot evict the tenant and the tenant can just go back to being late with their rent all the time. By refusing to accept the rent, the landlord may go through with the eviction and get rid of the problem tenant.Another time when this happens is when the lease is over or the person doesn’t belong in the apartment for whatever reason. If the landlord accepts the rent that could make it harder to evict or could create a landlord/tenant relationship where one did not actually exist.A landlord may not just refuse to accept payment from a tenant for the heck of it. There has to be an underlying problem.Keep in mind that laws vary by state. You will need to check your own state’s laws about this issue for whether it is legal.