apartment utiltity bills
Date of posting: 2010-02-02 03:48:26 Page Views: 114 Dispute with: A Business, Company, or Store Amount: $1 to $1,000 Description: We first moved in to this apartment last october 9, 2009. We got our first utility bill of $24.00 the following month November. This includes water, sewage, trash and gas. Our apartment was a one bedroom, one bath unit and its just me, my husband and our baby who lives there. But come nxt next moth, December our bill went from $24 to $47. I called the utility services and asked them what happened? they told me that the people living in our complex consumed much more than usual and snce it was allocated and not metered, so the toatl consupmption will be divided among all the tenants. But the thing is, we didn't consumed tnat much and we didn't even used the heater because it defective eventhough t was really cold. I called the apartment for repairs or replacement but it i have waited for more than a month and still did not pushed thru. Then the next bill came this january 2010 and to our surprise and horror, the bill was from $47 to $60. It gets higher and higher every month. I asked two of my neighbors how much are they being charged with the same unit that we have and the same amount of people living in there. They told me $30 or less than that per month. Considering that their heater units were in good condition and workng and they have been using it ever since the start of the winter season. I I told the apartment office baout this but still they told me they have nothing to do with it. But the utility company told me to go the apartment office and complain. I feel like we are like tennis balls being thrown back and forth. This is unfair. do i have a case againts any one of the two? like the apartment or the utitlity company? and who should i sue? Zipcode: 78213
City: San Antonio
State: Texas
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