Tuesday 10 January 2012

Q&A: Outrageous electric bill. 2022 kwh! for two people!?

Question by Themanintheyellowhat: Outrageous electric bill. 2022 kwh! for two people!?
I live in columbia MO and I just got our utility bill for the month and appearantly we used 2022 kwh. The reading on the meter is consistant with the bill, but it is impossible that we employed that much power. We live in a two bedroom apartment on the ground floor, we have a gas stove and I think our heat is gas as nicely, I know two of the other three apartments have gas heat, our only huge appliance is our fridge, and even if our heat is electric we maintain it in the low 60's. My laptop is typically plugged in, other than that we have two tv's, 1 modest affordable 1 that the cable is on and a nice hd one for games and movies. only one is on at a time, though normally for numerous hours a day (we often have men and women hanging out here). we do not have a lot of lights and we are excellent about turning them off. I have an alarm clock, and that is actually it. The building has a washer and dryer downstairs but the dryer is broken (nonetheless) so they don't really get utilized.

We are fairly certain that our landlords have screwed us with the utilities ahead of. In the course of the summer when we had a subleaser who by no means utilized the ac and only had a tv, the bill was $ 180 (this 1 is 250) and then the month we moved in it was even greater. We talked to our landlords and they stated they would send someone over to "check it out" and then all of the sudden our bill dropped practically a hundred bucks the next month.everyone else in the building's utilities had been as high as ours at the time, and then when they mentioned it to our landlords their bills dropped too. Last month's bill was about 100 bucks and even though I nevertheless think that is fairly high I can live with that. The organization that manages our developing manages genuine estate for fraternities and sororities in the location and our creating is owned by a fraternity subsequent door. They currently have a butt load of christmas lights up. The only things I can think of are that either our meter is broken, or we have been hooked back in to the fraternity subsequent door. What ought to we do?


Greatest answer:

Answer by LRM
Contact the power company your self. They can draw historical records for your unit to tell you what is "standard." If items are genuinely askew soon after this bit of research, ask them to come out and look for signs of misuse (neighbors drawing off your power, and so on). Great luck, it stinks getting ripped off!!!



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