Is it legal if my landlord, who is also my uncle, recently included my father in an email exchange about a bill that was due for utilities?

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Is it legal if my landlord, who is also my uncle, recently included my father in an email exchange about a bill that was due for utilities?

My landlord insisted on keeping the utilities in his name when we moved in, and when he asked us to switch them over ( 3 months later) we owed $205 for previous service. I told him that was fine, and I would pay it. I work out of state and ended up forgetting about it and getting him payment 12 days late. Landlord had paid original bill and this was just reimbursement. Was it legal for him to include someone not on the lease, or that has anything to do with any of this?My father is also my employer. Every other bill has been on time since we moved into this house.

Asked on July 11, 2015 under Real Estate Law, Florida

Answers:

SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney

Answered 8 years ago | Contributor

Unless there was some nondisclosure or confidentiality agreement, a landlord or a creditor (not a collections agency--they have additional restrictions on them that the original or underlying creditor does not) may share truthful information with anyone he or she chooses (untrue information could, of course, be defamation and give rise to liability on that basis).


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