If you find a tenant, they'll be paying the bills

[Tony_M]

Hello.

A: All good. I'm going on a three-month business trip in December.
B: That's great. Where?
A: France. I also think it's great, but the only thing I'm not really excited about is that I'll have to pay all the bills.
B: Rent your flat out. If you find a tenant who needs accommodation for three months, they'll be paying the bills. As I remember, a colleague of mine was looking for a short-term rental; I'll ask if she'd like to stay longer.

Does "will be paying" imply that by the time someone starts living in the flat, they and A will have agreed on a plan for payments?
Is "will pay" possible?

Thank you.

 

[Tarheel]

Hello.

A: All good. I'm going on a three-month business trip in December.
B: That's great. Where?
A: France. I also think it's great, but the only thing I'm not really excited about is that I'll have to pay all the bills.
B: Rent your flat out. If you find a tenant who needs accommodation for three months, they'll be paying the bills. As I remember, a colleague of mine was looking for a short-term rental; I'll ask if she'd like to stay longer.

Does "will be paying" imply that by the time someone starts living in the flat, they and A will have agreed on a plan for payments?
Is "will pay" possible?

[..............]

Any time you have a tenant you always work out the terms before the tenancy starts.

Did you invent that dialogue yourself?

 

[emsr2d2]

Does "will be paying" imply that by the time someone starts living in the flat, they and A will have agreed on a plan for payments?
Is "will pay" possible?

It simply means that if A gets a tenant, it will be the tenant's responsibility to pay all the bills. It's just a statement of fact. It doesn't indicate that a payment plan will be in place. Of course, the tenant would need to know before they move in that they're going to be responsible for all the bills associated with the apartment for the whole time they're living there.

 

[EngLearner]

Is the simple aspect "will pay" also correct in this case?

 

[emsr2d2]

Is the simple aspect "will pay" also correct in this case?

That would be grammatical too, although (as usual) most native speakers would use the contraction.

If you find a tenant, they'll pay the bills.

 

[Tarheel]

Hello.

A: All good. I'm going on a three-month business trip in December.
B: That's great. Where?
A: France. I also think it's great, but the only thing I'm not really excited about is that I'll have to pay all the bills.
B: Rent your flat out. If you find a tenant who needs accommodation for three months, they'll be paying the bills. As I remember, a colleague of mine was looking for a short-term rental; I'll ask if she'd like to stay longer.

Does "will be paying" imply that by the time someone starts living in the flat, they and A will have agreed on a plan for payments?
Is "will pay" possible?

[............]

OK. I was unclear on that. What A meant was that although he would be in France he would still have to pay all of the bills associated with the apartment/flat.

He would still be responsible for paying all the bills he normally pays. Would he able to rent the place for one month and have the tenant pay those bills? What are the chances of that happening?

 

[emsr2d2]

OK. I was unclear on that. What A meant was that although he would be in France he would still have to pay all of the bills associated with the apartment/flat.

He would still be responsible for paying all the bills he normally pays. Would he able to rent the place for one month and have the tenant pay those bills? What are the chances of that happening?

Where I live, finding someone to live in and look after your flat while you go on a three-month business trip (or holiday) is pretty easy. Such offers are advertised on a lot of local websites. It's cheaper than doing it through something like AirBnB as there are no fees. The only thing you have to be careful of is making sure you're not breaking any laws by sub-letting your flat. If you own it, you can do what you like with it but if you're renting, you're probably not allowed to just let someone else live there. Of course, you also need to be quite sure they're going to leave at the end of your trip!!
Anyone who moved into a flat under such an arrangement would fully expect to pay all the bills associated with staying there (gas, electricity, water, internet etc), except standing charges for the owner such as mortgage and council tax.

 

[Skrej]

If A is renting their apartment (as opposed to owning it), then we're talking about a sublease situation and the corresponding verb 'sublet'. It's quite common.

I once sublet an apartment in order to take summer classes. The regular tenant went home from college for the summer, and I took over the rent payments for a couple of months. Once fall arrived, I moved out, they moved back in and resumed paying the rent themselves.

I can't recall if I paid the landlord directly, or paid the renter I sublet from.