Peace at home, at last

I found what I believe is going to be the ideal solution to all of this Sturm und Drang here at my house that has worn me down to the point of exhaustion. Instead of my having to be the monthly "bad cop" bill collector letting the other tenant here know of what they owe in the way of their share of utilities, I proposed to my landlord to make this house an "all utilities paid" place where we each pay a slightly higher rent to cover the cost of the utilities that will now be in his name instead of in mine and he agreed with me that this is the best way to deal with this long nightmare situation and restore some badly needed peace to the house. I've spent the past year and a half dealing with histrionics, clever manipulations, excuses, and more from tenants who I have struggled in vain to collect their half of utilities, with no success whatsoever. This has left me holding the bag for the cost of the entire house utilities, practically unaffordable for me. I'm open to a slight raise in rent if it means that it covers the utilities here and excuses me from the unenviable and stressful role of monthly bill collector. And let's face it, NOBODY likes a bill collector. I am relieved to be shed of this egregious duty that has psychologically, physically and financially worn me down. Obviously, money brings out the worst in all people and I've seen it with the various denizens of the other unit in this house who have plied me with every excuse in the book for why they should be excused from paying their share of utilities. After a while, you find yourself asking, oh, boy, what's it going to be THIS month? Tenants have been most clever in wheedling their way out of paying their bills here each month. Well, that's gonna end right now. I want peace to reign over this house from now on. No more excuses, no more histrionics, no more drama, no more being manipulated into thinking that the tenant genuinely can't afford to pay me what they owe because of this, that or one thing or another. It stops here. Thank goodness. Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, I am free at last!