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I have two college students attending college in Tallahassee, Fl. As their parents, we were asked to be the guarantors for their lease. After several months, the leasing office call me and threaten to evict both of my children unless they or some one in their dorm styled apartment did not put the utilities in their names. Mind you, there are four seperate rooms in one apartment, each with bathrooms and the commons areas,ie, kitchen, living room and laundry room. They finally decided amongsts themselves, the tenants, to get the utilities transferred out of the property's name into their own. First, is this standard apartment policy for rooms that have more than one tenant at on address? Second of all, we pay their rent online via a rentpayment service. At that site, you have the option of paying the rent as well as paying anything other than the rent. We have used the "other" to pay their utilities to the leasing office in the past. Most recently, I recieved an email from the leasing office stating that both of my children's rent was past due and had late fees. I contacted the leasing office and they said that their policy was to pay whatever was owed at the time regardless to if we paid at that site for "rent" or either the "other" . Then this caused the rent to be late incurring late fees and they have some pretty stiff late fees. Is this legal and if not, what type of recourse can I take? Please advise. Thank you, Lcten@aol.com