neighbours impact power bill!

[chel]

frugal: : :
I would have never thought it, but neighbours can impact power bills!
I'm in a bottom level apartment and recently got new neighbours upstair. It's a mom with 2 small dc, verses 2 alcoholic that lived there last winter and were evicted for not paying rent. It's 11* outside, windchill -2 and it's 68 inside my apartment. I can't even remember the last time the heat came on (we've been almost snowbound inside for a week).

[pageta]

Oh yeah. I used to live in a third floor apartment. I hardly used the heat at all in the winter, and the air conditioner in the summer came on only occasionally. They gave a range for utility costs when you looked at the apartments, and my bills were always at or below their estimates. It sure was nice.

[an_aurora]

Yep! Our electric bill this month is $58!

[MaddieMay]

Oh my gosh, when DH and I were first married we lived in student housing at the university. NONE of our neighbors were from in-state and NONE were used to cold winters. We never once turned on our heat-in fact, we had our windows open with several inches of snow on the ground several times! We lived on the middle floor in the middle of the building-horrible for hauling in groceries, but great for electricity bills!

[living_organic]

We lived in an apartment in Washington State for a while, and were surrounded with nieghbors...our heat only came on a couple of times the whole winter! It was awesome...now we pay thru the nose for heat and we are still always cold due to trying to keep down costs! Sucks!