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Student Bills while renting Newcastle Student Housing

Bills, Bills, Bills...

Moving from home or student accommodation means that now you get the responsibility of handling all your own student bills in your Newcastle student housing. Fun, right?

Never fear! WR have put together a little guide helping you with everything from setting up your accounts to settling student bills…

Electricity & Gas

The electricity, and gas if the property has it, will be working the day you move in to your Newcastle student housing. It is your responsibility to contact the suppliers and set up an account.

The first step is to find out who the current suppliers are, for electricity call 0845 601 3268 and for gas call 0870 608 1524. Simply take a meter reading and let the suppliers know the previous tenants have moved out and you will be paying the bills now.

Water

You can arrange to pay your water bills for your Newcastle student housing weekly, fortnightly, monthly or annually in advance.

Council Tax

Good news! students don't have to pay council tax. However you are responsible for informing the council of your student status. You can usually download a confirmation letter from your university intranet site to send to the council. If you are a mixture of students and professionals in your household, you may have to make a partial payment of the council tax bill but again your statuses will have to be confirmed by the council.

TV License

Everyone with a television has to pay their TV license, even if you are a student. If you and your housemates all have televisions in your bedrooms you will still only be classed as one household and pay one license between you. You can arrange online at www.tvlicensing.co.uk to pay this weekly, monthly, quarterly or annually and if you're living in Newcastle student housing you can often get refunds for the summer months.

Internet/Sky/Virgin Media TV

For this one it's best to do your research to find the best deals for you, keeping your student bills as low as possible. If it's just internet you're after, there are companies who provide special deals for students. If you want to pay for Sky or Virgin Media television channels as well as internet, it may work out better to get a bundle. You can find out from WR or your landlord if Sky or Virgin is installed in your Newcastle student housing or not.

Household Items

Buying things that the whole house will share such as toilet roll, cleaning supplies, lightbulbs and items of food can end up causing arguments so it's easiest if you decide right from the beginning whether to all chip in equally to a household fund or just take it in turns to buy the supplies.

Rent

If you and your housemates have decided to pay different rent amounts depending on room size or if you are all paying out of one account then make sure it still adds up to the full monthly amount and that you let us know. This way we can note the changes on our system and you won't be chased for money that you don't actually owe us!