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BaroqueMama
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Electric Bill question. how much do you pay?
So, we moved into our apartment on July 15th, and we did not receive an electric bill, even though I switched it over to our names. Well, I call and they send me one, and they want 600 dollars for 41 days of service!!  Now, JT and I are very frugal about the use of our electric. We don't leave the a/c on, we don't leave the computer on and we turn lights off. So, if that wasn't bad enough, we get ANOTHER bill toda for another 400 dollars! And that was only for 27 days of service!
JT called LIPA and they claim that EVERYONE in our complex has a 3-4 hundred dollar electric bill a month. GIVE ME A BREAK. I KNOW that cannot be true. They are not working with us at all to correct this problem or figure out what is wrong, and I am NOT giving them $1000 dollars for less than THREE months of service!
So my question is, how much is everyone's electric bill per month or two months?
And how can I go about dealing with LIPA? I'm so mad, I cannot even believe this.
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Posted 9/28/05 9:15 PM  |
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Re: Electric Bill question. how much do you pay?
That is nuts. Ours is about $70 a month for our house, but we are in Putnam. When I was in Queens ConEd was about $60-70. My highest bill ever was about $120 for a month, but it was crazy hot and the ac was on all the time.
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| Posted 9/28/05 9:19 PM |
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KPtoys
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Re: Electric Bill question. how much do you pay?
Our monthly balanced billing is $130.
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| Posted 9/28/05 9:20 PM |
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christy
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Re: Electric Bill question. how much do you pay?
I pay around 110 a month! I thought that was bad.
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| Posted 9/28/05 9:28 PM |
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baghag
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Re: Electric Bill question. how much do you pay?
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Message edited 8/18/2011 2:11:54 PM.
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| Posted 9/28/05 9:28 PM |
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BaroqueMama
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Re: Electric Bill question. how much do you pay?
Posted by baghag
i pay about $60 in the winter, as high as $150 a month in the summer. i have con ed and live in brooklyn. i remember reading here that if you have an electric water heater, it pushes the bill up that high. could you ask your neighbors?
I am making JT go around and ask some of the neighbors tomorrow since they're mostly older and are around during the day.
Our complex claims to pay for our hot water. I think they may be running the washers and dryers off of our electric even though they are public machines you pay for. I'm CONVINCED something is up. Especially because the woman at LIPA told JT that the last tenant only paid 40 dollars a month. W T F?!?!?!
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| Posted 9/28/05 9:31 PM |
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checka
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Re: Electric Bill question. how much do you pay?
Our bill was $180 last month and we had a heart attack! We have a 1 bedroom apt and that month we had left the central air on a lot for the cat. Your bills are WAY too high. Something is not right.
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| Posted 9/28/05 9:31 PM |
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05mommy09
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Re: Electric Bill question. how much do you pay?
Hmmm... Im having a bit of confusion with my electirc bill since we moved into our apt. in July...
We just never got a bill... the other day we get a letter from the complex saying we never put the electric in our name blah blah blah..and we have a past due bill..
Well I know I put everything in our names..so I couldnt figure out what this was all about.. The copy of the bill we got from the rental office was for $136 and it was dated for Sept 12th.. So I assumed it was 136 for July and August...
When I called LIPA the recording said our bill was $400..hmmm... LIPA said it was there fault and they'd mail me a new bill..and to ignore both amounts...
Either way they messed up... When I called to set up the act. the guy on the phone said the people who lived here before us bill was on avg. $86... Im not sure if thats per month or per 2 months...
Either way-Your bill does not sound right!
Whens the last time they read the meter????
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| Posted 9/28/05 9:39 PM |
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BaroqueMama
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Re: Electric Bill question. how much do you pay?
Posted by Princessmaris
Whens the last time they read the meter????
The last time was August 25th, now it's all ESTIMATED readings They could charge me WHATEVER they want because I don't have access to the meter to read it myself
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| Posted 9/28/05 9:50 PM |
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dm24angel
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Re: Electric Bill question. how much do you pay?
Do you have electric heat??
We paid $56 for Lipa this month and last month our bill for almost 30 days of running A/c constantly was $97 and I thought that was obscene amount. My mom lives next door, in the winter she pays less then $30 a month, in the summer around $55.
We do not pay for heat though, and our stove is gas.
I have NEVER heard of those prices.
MY BIL's bill with the pool in the summer and central air, and 6 bedrooms is less then that!
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| Posted 9/28/05 9:57 PM |
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AJsMommy122
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Re: Electric Bill question. how much do you pay?
That is wayyyyyyyyyyyy too high!! With me home all day long and light, AC, TV and computer ALWAYS on our bill is less then $200 a month!
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| Posted 9/28/05 10:06 PM |
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Irishlass
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Re: Electric Bill question. how much do you pay?
Our bill for 2 months during the summer was over $700 - talk about heart attack!!
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| Posted 9/28/05 10:10 PM |
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Blazesyth
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Re: Electric Bill question. how much do you pay?
What apartment complex do you live in? I live in Somerset in North Babylon, and I pay 100 max a month, that is summer with the AC every night. Wintertime, its about 50 bucks. That is with a lot of electronics, 3 computers, etc also.. we are geeks 
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| Posted 9/28/05 10:14 PM |
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Jax430
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Re: Electric Bill question. how much do you pay?
Over the summer, it has been anywhere from $70-$90, and we try not to run the air too much!
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| Posted 9/28/05 10:16 PM |
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Diane
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Re: Electric Bill question. how much do you pay?
this month is was 476. I almost died. I called them up, because my bill has NEVER been over $100. They said that I owed them, and the estimates they were doing were much lower than we should have been paying
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| Posted 9/28/05 10:26 PM |
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MommyofG
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Re: Electric Bill question. how much do you pay?
Yea I dont know what our bill was DH pays them but he did say how they tacked on over a 100 dollars for OIL!!!!!!!!! Lipa charges for oil too!!!!!! W T F is that about!!!!!
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| Posted 9/28/05 10:57 PM |
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DjPiLL
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Re: Electric Bill question. how much do you pay?
You need to read the bills more accurately to see why you are paying so much... and if you are on level billing to see if you are being underbilled or not.
My level billing with coned tells me if I am currently under or over budget... so there won't be no surprises on that last month when they have to bill you for the adjusted rate.
Princessrachel.... why don't you post how much you are being charged per KwH and how many KwHs you used that month and we can compare.
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| Posted 9/28/05 10:58 PM |
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neenie
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Re: Electric Bill question. how much do you pay?
ours is usually around $50/month.... even with the 'actualy' readings... but this month it was $101, and i realyl thought there was something wrong with it b/c eventhough we had a/c on.. we're Never home (and we went on vacation last month too) 
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| Posted 9/28/05 11:04 PM |
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NewYawkah
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Re: Electric Bill question. how much do you pay?
Mine fluctuates a lot... sometimes it's 40 or 50, in the summer it was 115 one month...
I wish it would stay this weather all of the time since I don't need my central AC anymore!!!
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| Posted 9/28/05 11:09 PM |
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rose825
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Re: Electric Bill question. how much do you pay?
80-100 month
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dengal
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Re: Electric Bill question. how much do you pay?
That's insane - I would investigate further. During the peak of summer with two central AC units going non-stop to cool a rather large house, I pay about $375/month.
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| Posted 9/29/05 12:19 AM |
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dengal
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Re: Electric Bill question. how much do you pay?
Is it possible the previous tenants never paid the pas electric bills and now you are getting stuck with the bill?
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Leeners
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Re: Electric Bill question. how much do you pay?
That's the craziest thing I have ever heard ! We leave the AC on alllllll day every day for the dog (during the summer mos, obviously) and it's never exceeded $160. And I thought that was  .
ETS: I live in Queens so I have Con Ed.
EagainTS: I'm not on a level billing plan - we pay per month at the actual used rate. I don't personally trust them enough to correctly figure it out when all is said and done.
Message edited 9/29/2005 8:43:42 AM.
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LisaW
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Re: Electric Bill question. how much do you pay?
Our last few bills at our apt complex were very high too (over $200). One month was when we were away 2 weeks!! I called to dispute it and they gave me the whole "estimated reading" speech, and said it would be corrected the next month. Well, the next month it showed that estimated reading was too low!!! I flipped out!
We wound up just paying it b/c we were moving anyway, but I felt there was something fishy going on there too.
Oh, and our complex didn't charge for heat or hot water....wonder if its the same company.
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| Posted 9/29/05 8:47 AM |
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btrflygrl
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Re: Electric Bill question. how much do you pay?
holy cr@p!!! Our highest so far (and this is down in Hotlanta) was $148 last month with the A/C on 24/7, electric everything (no gas or oil)
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