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Electric bill in one-bedroom apartment

Jeez man when I had a two bedroom in LA of all places my electric bill never exceeded $35. Are you cranking your A/C constantly? How efficient are your big appliances? An old inefficient refrigerator can triple the energy costs in an apartment.

It all depends on kwh price. I have a one-bedroom, I do not use the heat (electric baseboards), I don't like electric light so I rarely have more than one on if that, and yet $35 is probably the lowest bill I've had since prices skyrocketed following deregulation about 3 years ago. In the summer when I have to use the (single) AC unit, I average about $100-150. And I have clean currents, which locks in the kwh price at .11, which right now is about .2-.3 less than the standard price from the local utility (which still takes its chunk via delivery fees etc.). Those are about the same sorts of prices, scaled to apartment/house size, most people I know see around here.

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Cents/kWh
Jun-Sep: 9.04 ¢
Oct-May: 7.76 ¢
Annual Average: 8.24 ¢

Whoa. What is that, Pepco? :vulcan:
 
What do you want me to do?!

She wants a 900 dollars pet fee in full! Nothing that I can do to change her mind to let me to do all that rent per month for that shit! My goodness, she's greedy as of late.

Greedy? No, she's protecting her interest. Pets can be destructive, plus with the money up front she knows she won't lose out should you decide to skip out in a couple of months.
 
What do you want me to do?!

She wants a 900 dollars pet fee in full! Nothing that I can do to change her mind to let me to do all that rent per month for that shit! My goodness, she's greedy as of late.

What makes you think that by paying the -admitedly ridiculously high- security deposit there to protect the landlord when/if your pets mess up the apartment entitles you to months of free rent?
 
What do you want me to do?!

She wants a 900 dollars pet fee in full! Nothing that I can do to change her mind to let me to do all that rent per month for that shit! My goodness, she's greedy as of late.

What makes you think that by paying the -admitedly ridiculously high- security deposit there to protect the landlord when/if your pets mess up the apartment to months of free rent?

You got me there. Good question.
 
What do you want me to do?!

She wants a 900 dollars pet fee in full! Nothing that I can do to change her mind to let me to do all that rent per month for that shit! My goodness, she's greedy as of late.

Greedy? No, she's protecting her interest. Pets can be destructive, plus with the money up front she knows she won't lose out should you decide to skip out in a couple of months.

Oh yeah? Well then Scumlords should start charging extra security if you have some brats running around. They fuck up more shit than any pet I've met.
 
What do you want me to do?!

She wants a 900 dollars pet fee in full! Nothing that I can do to change her mind to let me to do all that rent per month for that shit! My goodness, she's greedy as of late.

Read the lease you signed. What does it say about pets? If there's nothing in there about them, then she can't really make you pay, unless there something weird in tenant law where you are.
 
I'm curious to know if the OP does a lot of microwave cooking. That appliance--along with the fridge, A/C, and TV--would be the most power-hungry devices.
 
Is that US dollars? :wtf:

I do absolutely NOTHING to cut my power consumption and my electric bill in the city of Chicago for a smallish 1BR place has never gone over $45. This is with a PC running 24/7, an Xbox 360 (or occasionally a very power-hungry PS3) and an LCD TV on a few hours a day, and regular light bulbs that I haven't had a chance to replace with CFLs since they came with the apartment and haven't burned out yet. Oh yeah, AND AC to make the few days it was baking hot here for a few short stints during the summer.
 
What do you want me to do?!

She wants a 900 dollars pet fee in full! Nothing that I can do to change her mind to let me to do all that rent per month for that shit! My goodness, she's greedy as of late.

According to North Carolina State law, your landlord is completely within her rights:

Can my landlord charge me a "pet fee"?

Yes. In addition to the security deposit, your landlord may also charge you a non-refundable fee if you plan to keep a pet in his property or on the grounds. The "pet fee" can be any "reasonable'' amount that the landlord wishes to charge. If your pet damages the property, the landlord may keep the amount of the pet fee and security deposit necessary to repair the damage.

It sounds like your landlord is multiplying the pet fee by the number of animals you're bringing into the unit (which is not at all unheard of).

Also, your story doesn't add up. First you said you were moving into a one-bedroom apartment. Now you're saying you're moving into a "woodland two-bedroom apartment." Did you simply select another property in the same complex? :vulcan:
 
What do you want me to do?!

She wants a 900 dollars pet fee in full! Nothing that I can do to change her mind to let me to do all that rent per month for that shit! My goodness, she's greedy as of late.

Greedy? No, she's protecting her interest. Pets can be destructive, plus with the money up front she knows she won't lose out should you decide to skip out in a couple of months.

Oh yeah? Well then Scumlords should start charging extra security if you have some brats running around. They fuck up more shit than any pet I've met.

Having both kids and hyperactive dogs, I can tell you that the kids damage things far less than the damn dogs do. The main things to worry about with dogs and cats are scratching walls/doors and pissing on the carpet. Kids tend not to do so much of that, and carpet is expensive to replace.
 
I'm surprised the fee is that steep for cats. Cats are pretty much harmless. The worst I've ever had a cat do is eat my shoelaces.

Dogs on the other hand can be total menaces. We busted our butts training our dog since we are renting the house we're in now. The last thing I wanted was a destructive animal causing issues with our lease.
 
I'm surprised the fee is that steep for cats. Cats are pretty much harmless. The worst I've ever had a cat do is eat my shoelaces.

Dogs on the other hand can be total menaces. We busted our butts training our dog since we are renting the house we're in now. The last thing I wanted was a destructive animal causing issues with our lease.
Most places I've found don't differentiate between dogs and cats. A pet is a pet.
 
I'm surprised the fee is that steep for cats. Cats are pretty much harmless. The worst I've ever had a cat do is eat my shoelaces.

Dogs on the other hand can be total menaces. We busted our butts training our dog since we are renting the house we're in now. The last thing I wanted was a destructive animal causing issues with our lease.
(Most) cats have claws and like to use them on carpet, doors, door frames, and other places. Geriatric cats tend to have incontinence issues, which damages carpet.
 
That does seem pretty high. I live in an 1100 sq ft house and my electric+gas bill is around $20-25 per month. I use about 130-140 kwh (11.5 cents per kwh from PG&E in this part of California) and around a half a therm of gas each month.
 
In Indiana, I pay about 15 cents per kWh, not counting the "service charge," some small credits, taxes, and riders.

In New Jersey, I pay about 18 cents per kWh.

Make sure you count both the fuel cost and the delivery charge, which are sometimes separate (as they are in NJ) and sometimes are one charge (as in Indiana).
 
My bill breaks it down into a crazy huge number of categories. In total I pay 11.531 cents per kwh - 42% of that is generation, 8.5% is transmission, 30% is distribution, 5% is "public purpose programs", 0.2% is nuclear decommissioning, 4% is DWR bond charges, 7% is "ongoing CTC" (whatever that is!), and 2% is "energy cost recovery amount." There apparently are definitions on page 2 of the bill, but I haven't cared enough to look!
 
I'm curious to know if the OP does a lot of microwave cooking. That appliance--along with the fridge, A/C, and TV--would be the most power-hungry devices.

I don't do a lot of microwave cooking as of late. Granted, I'm trying to do less microwave cooking this year, because there are so much things to do rather than coming home from working to dumping frozen food into microwave cooking, that is, I'm trying to avoiding to using too much electric this year, I'm very dependant on A/C during the course of the summer season, my grandmother revealed the bill to me that it costs up nearly 200 dollars, so that force me to change the way I'm doing around the house.

Timby said:
It sounds like your landlord is multiplying the pet fee by the number of animals you're bringing into the unit (which is not at all unheard of).

Also, your story doesn't add up. First you said you were moving into a one-bedroom apartment. Now you're saying you're moving into a "woodland two-bedroom apartment." Did you simply select another property in the same complex? :vulcan:

You're right, it's all unheard of this north carolina law, because it's outrageous price that I'd have to pay 900 dollars of pet fee this year, I spoke to her on the phone earlier this month and her manager told me that if I decided to bring three cats in the apartment, it's still same as of 900 dollars fee for that. Right now I'm relaying to government to giving me the assistance that I needed to cover for the rent in the later months. She informed me that she's accepting the SSI checks as long as my income is good.

I know that my story doesn't add up, but before I decided to moving into a one-bedroom, I searched a wide range of apartments that allows multiplying pets in their place, they told me that they don't allowing one more cat in their place, that is, I'm very disappointed to hear that. That's where the woodlands apartment comes in. My prayer got answered at long last, the rent would be 315 dollars per month for two-bedroom apartment, so I decided to take it since they're allowing three cats. You've had no idea how much those cats meant to me, I couldn't be apart from them, they hold a special place in my heart.

And, no, I didn't simply select another property in the same complex! It's different complex that I was choosing in the first place. Now you don't have to worrying about checking my story out, you got your question answered, Timby. Another story, I might add, this apartment that I really want to live in was north campus crossing, man, it's so beautiful. The landlord told me that I would have to share a roommate with, I told her that I don't want any roommates to begin with. I was very tempted to take the apartment. I'm very glad that I decided not to taking that apartment complex at all. I rather to be alone with my cats. Here's the website: www.northcampuscrossing.com
 
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