<prompt> Human: Im not sure if this belongs here, but I need some advice dealing with financial problems with my landlord that has come up.My roommates and I moved into our house on August 16 this year. In September,, our landlord told us that he had calculated our share of the current utilities payment. She said that she had already payed the utilities company and that we needed to reimburse her 165; we promptly wrote her a check for that amount.Earlier this week, we received a notice on our door from the utilities company saying we needed to pay our bill of 366 or our water would be shut off.After visiting the public utilities office, we received the following information: The bill had not been payed since May 2014. The bill for the period from August 26-October 26 was 290.Before August 26, the outstanding bill was 366.We payed the 366 to avoid our water being shut off, but we are now facing a problem. We have now paid 531 for a bill that should have been 290 not counting the six day overlap in August, which she had calculated at 165. Basically, we were made to pay our landlords outstanding utilities bill. We are all very unsure about what to do now. Do we ask our landlord to reimburse us? Thank you for reading; ANY advice would be appreciated.  <response>: Send her a registered letter stating that with a copy of the receipt and inform her that this amount will be deducted from the rent check. If she refuses then go to small claims court. 