Suministros
utilities: alta, baja and cambio de titular
Definition
Suministros are the utility supplies to a flat — electricity, water, gas, internet. Three words govern what happens to them: alta (starting a supply), baja (cancelling it) and cambio de titular (transferring the contract to someone else's name).
Why it matters
Whose name the contract is in decides who gets the bills after you leave. If the contract is yours and you neither cancel nor transfer it, consumption by the next occupant is billed to you.
Cancelling outright is not always the right move. A baja can mean the next tenant pays a new connection charge, and a landlord may reasonably prefer a cambio de titular — worth agreeing before you act, and worth putting in writing.
Take meter readings on the day you hand back the keys and keep them with the handover report. A final bill that arrives a month later is much easier to challenge against a photographed reading.
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