水的问题 - please help

I bought a foreclosed house.  The water district refused to provide water until we pay for the previous owner's water bill.

Have you heard of this before?  Utilities bills should be separated, unlike the property tax, right?

What shall we do?  How can we fight for it?

Thanks

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• I paid $560 water bill for previous owner 2 month after closing. -小心翼翼的小地主- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/18/2013 postreply 17:16:53

• Oh? how about electric bills? -smilee- ♀ (313 bytes) () 04/18/2013 postreply 17:21:02

• my case is water/sewer belongs to township and it's a SS -小心翼翼的小地主- ♀ (76 bytes) () 04/18/2013 postreply 17:23:27

• I think my water probably also belongs to the township -smilee- ♀ (49 bytes) () 04/18/2013 postreply 17:26:18

• They won't pay, but now it's your house -小心翼翼的小地主- ♀ (59 bytes) () 04/18/2013 postreply 17:29:51

• 我有过这么一个账单，找过户公司给解决了. -laota- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/18/2013 postreply 18:14:49

• 唉！俺那不负责任的律师居然没问俺就和银行签了seller只伏$300水费的条款。 -小心翼翼的小地主- ♀ (20 bytes) () 04/18/2013 postreply 18:41:40

• foreclosed house过户时应当过户公司都会结算好的，是写在hud-1上的事，不可能这样！当 -MrsKwok- ♀ (48 bytes) () 04/18/2013 postreply 17:31:06

• What if the tenant does not pay? Do I need to pay for those as -smilee- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/18/2013 postreply 17:42:57

• 白菜房银行得付呀！关租客啥事！所有的押金房租水费都得结算好了才过得呀！ -MrsKwok- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/18/2013 postreply 17:47:30

• I am talking about what happened in the future. -smilee- ♀ (323 bytes) () 04/18/2013 postreply 17:52:58

• 水痘是跟房子跟房主，租客不付你付！that's why some area do charge water security d -MrsKwok- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/18/2013 postreply 17:55:38

• 回复：What if the tenant does not pay? -smilee- ♀ (107 bytes) () 04/18/2013 postreply 17:50:24

• 如果租客不付，拿下月租金先抵水费，告知房客要他补租金，不缴3天notice，eviction伺侯。 -随其自然- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/18/2013 postreply 18:40:20

• 你的closing attorney failed to protect you. Ask him what he can do -qiaoshe- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/18/2013 postreply 17:38:57

• 找你的title insurance公司. -laota- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/18/2013 postreply 18:16:30