NWR: LIPA BILLS

StaceYums81 Posted: Nov 13, 2009 09:31 PM

NWR: LIPA BILLS

usually our LIPA bill is steady btwn 120-140 bucks a month. Last month we got a very steep bill for $330 - this month the bill is only $56. I have no idea whats going on anyone else have this kind of thing happen to them ever? We use the same electricity all the time...

Lsorrent Posted: Nov 13, 2009 09:34 PM

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Yup, our bill is normally around $200...one month it was over $400

I nearly had a heart attack.

heathery72 Posted: Nov 13, 2009 09:46 PM

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We get a lipa bill every 6-7 weeks and the amount is all over the place.

MrsSoto Posted: Nov 13, 2009 09:49 PM

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yeah im a property manager and it happens with all the houses and they are all vacant so its definately the same electricty use!!!!

on our apartment its not steady either. very weird and more than that, very nervewracking if your on a tight budget

there is a mention of something like this on the bills i thought and a phone number but i never looked into it

Clover23 Posted: Nov 13, 2009 09:50 PM

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there are regulatory taxes and surcharges that are retroactive... they get applied to your bill randomly usually there is some fine print notice that its coming or could be coming.

scatteredx12 Posted: Nov 13, 2009 10:11 PM

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this happened to us once... our bill is ALWAYS between 50 and 70 a month... and then one month it skyrocketed to 200!! its just the two of us in a small apartment! we thought it was a mistake but apparently the guy came to do a meter reading? if thats what its called? im tired and can't remember...lol

JC297 Posted: Nov 13, 2009 10:21 PM

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there was also some power credit this month.

mbscheer Posted: Nov 13, 2009 10:27 PM

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Ours just doubled

I cannot afford lights anymore!!

AshnJess110610 Posted: Nov 13, 2009 10:34 PM

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Do you live in an apartment or a house? We had the same problem in our old apartment. One month it was $56, and the next it was almost $400. We got into a huge fight with LIPA over it, they ended up admitting that they only send someone out to check the apartment complexes every other month. The months they don't check they only do an estimate. The next month when they do check they bill you for your current charges, and add what they were off by the month before. I HATE LIPA!

Future Mrs H Posted: Nov 14, 2009 07:27 AM

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Posted by AshnJess110610

Do you live in an apartment or a house? We had the same problem in our old apartment. One month it was $56, and the next it was almost $400. We got into a huge fight with LIPA over it, they ended up admitting that they only send someone out to check the apartment complexes every other month. The months they don't check they only do an estimate. The next month when they do check they bill you for your current charges, and add what they were off by the month before. I HATE LIPA!

Are you kidding that they only send someone out every other month??? My FH works for Con Edison as a meter reader and if they were to do that they would get written up!!

you should have told them since they only come to read my meter every other month then maybe I will pay my bill every other month. Thats insane!!

GiannisWifey Posted: Nov 14, 2009 08:30 AM

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If I am not mistaken, doesn't it also have to do with whether it is an actual reading or an estimated reading??

I could be totally wrong but I hear my mom bish about it!

I HATE BILLS!

Spring143 Posted: Nov 14, 2009 08:57 AM

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ugh lipa

MrsCM Posted: Nov 14, 2009 09:54 AM

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Over the summer with the AC, ours was $200 but usually it's $85-$115 for our house. But we have oil heat and central air.

MongieToBe Posted: Nov 14, 2009 09:55 AM

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Posted by AshnJess110610

Do you live in an apartment or a house? We had the same problem in our old apartment. One month it was $56, and the next it was almost $400. We got into a huge fight with LIPA over it, they ended up admitting that they only send someone out to check the apartment complexes every other month. The months they don't check they only do an estimate. The next month when they do check they bill you for your current charges, and add what they were off by the month before. I HATE LIPA!

Yup! We were told the same thing when we lived in our apt.

It was our first month in our old apartment (this was almost 3 years ago) & we were on vacation for 2 weeks out of the month & the bill was like $150. I called & they said it was an estimated reading b/c they only read the meters on the EVEN months and we were in January which is an ODD month. So i asked how they got our price & they said they based it on the previous occupants of the apt! Ridic!

ETA: With our house, it's a little more consistant but I think they still only read it every other month. Check your bill on the back. It will say ESTIMATED READING or ACTUAL READING...something like that.