<prompt> Human: edit: Sorry if this is the wrong subreddit! I dont know where to go and rpersonalfinance seemed like a good place to startHi all,So my roommates and I moved into this apartment mid August. Its now the very last day of October. The way that utilities is set up with the house is that we take care of the electricity bill through our citys Gas and Electric, and then the landlord sends us a portion of the bill for the entire apartment buildings gaswatersewagewhatever else besides the electricity.Theyre supposed to bill us halfway through the next month with our utility bill. For example, they should have billed us around October 15th ish for our whole month of September, and it wouldve been due on November 1st along with our Novembers rent confusing, I know.Despite countless calls and emails, they havent billed us at all yet. Were afraid that theyre going to let the bills add up and then drop a hefty bill on us in like January, with the accumulation of all of the bills from the previous months. Unfortunately, theyve done that to the tenants who live upstairs. Doubly unfortunately, they didnt write in a specific date of each month of when theyre supposed to bill us in our lease. Theres a blank in the lease for the date and they literally just didnt fill in a date. Does that somehow give them the right to withhold the bills and then drop it all on us all of a sudden?Is there a chance that we can somehow not have to pay the utilities if its been too long without being billed?Were in Baltimore, MarylandThank you so much for your help!  <response>: Im not sure if this helps but you and your roommates should still be putting money to the side for those bills and you should ask the tenants up stairs about how much per month the average for them was so you have some what of an idea, just in case they do drop it on you. Seeing how they have did it before to other tenants, its likely they will again. Id say there was no chance in not having to pay it just because they arent doing it monthly though. Maybe if there was something in the lease. If they are that bad about billing, they should just raise rent a little and do all bills paid though. Make it easier on everyone. 