Apartment Dwellers

How much would you say on average is your electric bill per month?

Mine is currently included in my rent and DH and I are looking for a new apartment for various reasons...chances are we will have to pay for it at our new place.

I am scared....especially in the summer....and especially since DH has never had to pay for electric in his life.

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ALOT

in the summer- I was getting bills over $175 for a junior 4 with 2 A/C and no one running them during the day

my average winter bill was $75

LIPA is so expensive- my rent includes electric now and I am loving it - I am scared for when we buy a house

but LIPA offered me the balanced billing program for $107 a month

the first year we lived there is was alot less then the second year- LIPA added all these new surcharges

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ours wasn't bad. But we lived in a small apartment. I bedroom, 1 bathroom, kitchen and living room. It was small. But it was about $85 in the summer (with 2 a/c units) and $60 in the winter.

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I should also mention that we are going to have at least 2BRs, possibly a DR as well.

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Oh and no DW or W/D for us.....

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We pay about $50 a month during the fall/winter.

During the summer, ours was near $100/125 when we ran both A/C units in the LR and BR, plus a fan.

Where are you looking to rent? Our 1 BR apt will be avail quite soon once we get a closing date.

ETA: Laundry is located in laundry facility across the way (we live in a complex and it's attached to the building across the parking strip) and we have D/W that we run every other day with heat dry.

Message edited 12/18/2006 2:18:05 PM.

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First year I paid monthly - it was CHEAP - like $20/mo. Then in the summer it reached as much as $150/mo.

Then Idid a balanced budget - and it was $57/mo.

Now we have a similar situation to you - it is included in the rent and in the summer we pay $50/mo extra for the A/C

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I am in Queens (not sure if that makes a difference since you mentioned LIPA)

Seriously I think I am going to cry but I think its time to pay electic like a big girl so I wont.

I think I could live with the $107 balance thing a month - I just dont want a huge one in the summer months you know what I mean?




con-ed might be alittle better- I had them when I lived in Manhattan- but that was before gas prices went thru the roof-

I had a dishwasher- and a DH who likes the A/C on high and on April thru Oct

but b/c the apartment was a junior 4- 1 bed room with a diningroom and a 25 foot long living room- it took alot to cool the room down

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We have a 2 BR Apt, and had 3 air conditioners this summer. Our bill was about $170 a month over the summer, and averages about $65 a month over the winter. Considering the summer only lasts at most 3 months, I deal with extra cost for the short time period.

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We're in a 3 BR in Queens and I think our last bill was about $65. In the summer, I think it was about $100. We definitely don't use the AC as much as most people, though and we don't have electric heat. We just started getiing metered recently.

ETA: We have a dishwasher too.

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We got our first bill last month, the landlord had been paying it.

Ours is a bit high because I have my orchidarium running 2 fans and 6 lights for 14 hours a day, even when we're not home. It was $99.00.

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We are in BK and have about 850 sq ft. We do not use AC that much in the summer and we have gas for heat and cooking. No D/W and no W/D in the apartment. I just paid the Con Ed bill (balanced plan) and it was $119. It was around $87 for a long time but jumped up in the last year or so.

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Ours is $83 per month with the balanced billing. We have a 2 BR apartment now and central air.

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my budget for lipa is 189 per month all year. 2 bedroom... We didnt do the budget this year and in the summer our bill averaged 350$ with the CA

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We have ConEd. For a 1 br its about $50 in the fall/winter/spring, but in the summer it soars to about $150. We run the AC nearly all the time though.

When my parents were renting their 2 br, it was about the same $50 or so during the fall/winter/spring. They weren't insane with the AC, so their summer bills weren't as high as ours.

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we have balanced billing with LIPA and it's $100 a month. (we have CAC nad use it ALL summer)

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1 bedroom, gas stove, dishwasher, with l/r, kitchen winter it's $50 - $70, depending on what we do (ie, xmas lights)

in the summer, it's about $130 for the 2 a/c.

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Winter about $35-40
Summer anywhere between $90-130. I love the A/C and I work from home a lot.

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we have balance billing

we were 92 a month but we just dropped to 72 a month.

The balanced billing is great. It is the same evry month but at the end of the year you will either have a credit or owe money

I like knowing exactly what the bill is each month. The summer you use the most but the winter balances it out

hth

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apartment in 2 family house pay about 30 to 40 a month. it is a small one bedroom apt. a/c in bedroom only with fans in kitchen and living room.

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We pay $40 in the Winter for our 1B....In the Summer, it's about double, $85.
We have 2ACs and keep them running a lot in the summer
It's not really as bad as I thought it was going to be.