My husband and I have so much stress over our electrical issue. We are living in a duplex. In July our neighbor moved. By end of August I start wondering why we have not received our electricity bill. I called them and to my surprised they said the account was closed due to that we are moved on the same date that my neighbor moved. Obviously they closed the wrong account. Our duplex has two separate meters.
Not only that, since we are living here I am puzzled how my bills were so high...more than $200 a month. It is a 2 Bedrooms with 1 Bath house. Centralized air-cond. We do not have children, both are working.
A week after that a new neighbor rented the other duplex and she complaints that she has a very high electricity bills....when I checked her bill, she had our meter number on her bill with her name. So we are trying to fix this. Call the electricity company, many-many times, every time got the different ppl, and all the times, they said the cannot give any information since our name not on the bill...we are still having electricity. So we contacted the Landlord to settle this and after 2 months still nothing is settle.
The new news, the old tenant who moved out actually still receiving bills even they have been moved for more than 2 months. I complained this problem to PUC (Utilities Commission) and hear nothing!
So, what is the reason that we can break the lease without having to pay penalty and get sue? We still have 6 months. I have enough stress for this problem. One more thing, we want to pay the electricity, but has no clue what is our portion, the landlord ask us to pay half of the bill with our neighbor, but do you think this fair? Since who knows who used more power than the other? We don't mind to pay, but we want this matter settled.
Thank you for your help.
Not only that, since we are living here I am puzzled how my bills were so high...more than $200 a month. It is a 2 Bedrooms with 1 Bath house. Centralized air-cond. We do not have children, both are working.
A week after that a new neighbor rented the other duplex and she complaints that she has a very high electricity bills....when I checked her bill, she had our meter number on her bill with her name. So we are trying to fix this. Call the electricity company, many-many times, every time got the different ppl, and all the times, they said the cannot give any information since our name not on the bill...we are still having electricity. So we contacted the Landlord to settle this and after 2 months still nothing is settle.
The new news, the old tenant who moved out actually still receiving bills even they have been moved for more than 2 months. I complained this problem to PUC (Utilities Commission) and hear nothing!
So, what is the reason that we can break the lease without having to pay penalty and get sue? We still have 6 months. I have enough stress for this problem. One more thing, we want to pay the electricity, but has no clue what is our portion, the landlord ask us to pay half of the bill with our neighbor, but do you think this fair? Since who knows who used more power than the other? We don't mind to pay, but we want this matter settled.
Thank you for your help.
