Question about average bills in Orlando, fl (Mount Dora: flat fee, apartment complex)

[Florida87]

Hello everyone, I just recently moved here with my boyfriend and we are now living with his parents soon to be getting our own apartment. I was wondering how much is the average bills here such as: water, electricity, cable, internet ect...with a 615sqft apartment? please help!

[Alphaman]

There are too many variables to determine that.

[RelocatorNYtoFL]

My experience is if you are renting which means no water or trash collecting bill, for electricity at 75 days 70 nights degrees on the AC, electric stove and dryer for two... that will be about 165.00 Then you have cable (Basic), voip telephone (Vonage or ATT) plus Internet, that's another 100.00

Good luck

[gypsystar]

We had 2-bedroom apt. in the Mount Dora area and our electricity bill was $250 for ONE month - insane! Our apt. was probably about 800 sq. feet and we kept the a/c on about 79 all day and night.

[beckycat]

Originally Posted by gypsystar

We had 2-bedroom apt. in the Mount Dora area and our electricity bill was $250 for ONE month - insane! Our apt. was probably about 800 sq. feet and we kept the a/c on about 79 all day and night.

Something must have been wrong with your a/c. I have a 1600 Sq ft home and my higher bills are $250 at 78. For that size apt, I'd say give or take a $100. Water, $15-$30 depending how much you use. You can bundle your cable, internet, and phone for $99.

[boy3365]

My apartment is 750sq.

Electricity with Sewage: $75-$100 per month (I keep it OFF when I'm not here)
Cable: $110 (DVR + Internet)

Some apartment complexes add trash and water as a flat fee on top of the rent. Factor that into your budgeting plans. The apartment complex I moved out of advertised its future "valet trash pick-up" when I was checking it out. When they started offering the service, it was a $15 fee added on top of the rent.

[gypsystar]

Originally Posted by beckycat

Something must have been wrong with your a/c. I have a 1600 Sq ft home and my higher bills are $250 at 78. For that size apt, I'd say give or take a $100. Water, $15-$30 depending how much you use. You can bundle your cable, internet, and phone for $99.

Maybe it is Mount Dora - we had something called a "delivery fee" every month, something I had never heard of before. We had electric through the city and they tacked on that extra fee - not cool.

[FloridaBritGuy]

the bill for what you use is not too bad but because they have monopolies you get shafted with "customer charge", State tax, City tax etc etc
when all said and done it puts 30 % more on your bill. -gotta love them hidden taxes....

[THENAKEDCHEF]

we just moved her last month but our house is 2700 sqft with a 10k pool and 3 people in house.
Air is set on 80 and the electricity is $350 month winter cause pool and summer for air, water , we have no yard but sprinklers run per hoa and water and sewer is 150 month.
Houses are cheap to rent here but Taxes, electrcity, water sewer, entertinment is expensive to us.
I don't work, raising grandson, but my wife transfered here with Verizon and makes $65k. Not sure if that is enough here though.
Good uck

[LandShark99]

Apts gouging tenants on Utilities!

Are you being charged for utilities by your apt complex? Did they tell you that you would get a little water bill from the water company and it would only be about $10 a month or so? Did you ask who the water company was and they named the billing service which sounds just like a utility company? Then you find that the "water company" is a billing service (no surprise there since you know apt complexes don't have seperate meters so there is no way for them to meter you) from out of state which is charging you a new account charge and customer charge on top of the Water plus Sewer plus Garbage "submetered bills" that turn out to be going up $10 a month - not anywhere near $10 a month for the bill as you were told?

Please join with me, Las Vegas Mommy on the Las Vegas forum, Punkynlew on the Atlanta forum and any others we find to fight this gouging of tenants. It's even worse in other states according to what I am reading. I came on here this morning to post to this forum about it but did the search first and found it going on in other states and cities.

Apparently this is a money grab by apt complexes that is catching on nationally. If we don't stand up and fight it now (I say class action lawsuit against the govts that allow it and roll downhill from there). They are misleading the tenants and gouging them. If we can't sue them we can flood the state leaders responsible for allowing this practice with emails, calls and face to face appointments. We could mount a grassroots upheaval that would make them as miserable as we are.

It's time to STEP UP, STAND UP and SPEAK OUT!

Post up your stories after you read the ones on the other forums and let's pull together to get the gouging and even the billing outlawed nationwide!

Mine: http://www.city-data.com/forum/las-v...ugh-water.html

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