I started renting a place with my husband and 3 year old 5 months ago.
We were told we would be paying for electrical, and I have no problem with that.
But I do have a problem, and here it is:
My husband and I both work full time, and our Daughter goes to school.
We are not home all day, and when we get home, which is around 6pm, we start a fire, and NEVER use the heater.
We don’t go all crazy and turn the lights on and leave them on, we only use the one we need to get by. My daughter will go play in her room, and we will usually watch Tv in the living room.
We are usually in bed by 10pm, or earlier, except on weekends it may be a little later.
Our first bill for PGE was reasonable: .
The next month….3
Next month 0
THIS month 1!!!!!!
Now I have NEVER paid so much for electric in my life.
The place we rented before we had 2 refrigerators running, didn’t have a fireplace so had to have heaters on, etc. The bills never exceeded 5.
I keep asking my landlord how it can be so high, and this is his answer:
He has 3 houses running on 1 meter.
He says that it is high because he has to pay penalties because of that. (I was never told I would have to pay for his penalties because he won’t bring it up to code.)
He also has his other renter doing the bill splits, he is the one "reading" the meter usage. (How does he do that, because I want to know so I can understand how it is so high.)
This is also the person that I have been told by the landlords son that he runs 4 computers all day long, and yet his bill is lower than ours…
It just seems fishy.
Any ideas what could be happening??