Comments on: Estimated vs Actual Readings: It’s an expensive month

By: Another expensive month for electricity at Clever Dude Personal Finance & Money

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:46:58 +0000

[...] last month, I told you we were hit with an almost $400 electric bill. We had some major discrepancies in how they were calculating our estimated vs actual bill, but it [...]

By: realist

realist — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:24:19 +0000

so spending more on electricity is good to save money, but paying more in taxes to get a refund is bad?

ya lost me there bud.

(o yeah, hit me up about the house i am looking at)

By: BeyondtheConsumer

BeyondtheConsumer — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:49:38 +0000

They did that once to me. I had a note on my bill that said “a recent month has been an estimated billing, your next few bills may be higher or lower than normal”. It was a little higher a couple months later (compared to the previous year) but not by much.

Still, it upsets me a little that they even do “estimated” billing.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:30:39 +0000

Similar thing happened to me a while back. We rented a house in North Carolina and the proration of the bills made it look nice. However, the insulation in the house wasn’t up to par and we were wasting tons of energy.