Utility rates? (Denver, Aurora: rental, condo, house)

[rezfreak]

We just found out we may be moving to the denver/aurora area sometime this spring/summer with the military. Details are still yet to come so I'm just doing a little data gathering ahead of time.

What is your average rate for utilities for say a 1500-2k sq foot house (likely closer to the 1500 range though)? From what i can see, the average rental rate for a 1500 sq foot house is going to run us 1400 a month or so. (+/- 200)

I lived in Nebraska for 26 years before this, so cold weather is a welcome change of pace from this hot florida weather.

[davebarnes]

$200/mo for gas and electric
$35/mo for water & sewer (in Denver, Aurora is more)

[rezfreak]

yikes, much higher than here sadly

(on a side note, i see you're a "nerd" from your status... Is there a huge tabletop gaming community there in denver perhaps?)

[JD401]

Originally Posted by davebarnes

$200/mo for gas and electric
$35/mo for water & sewer (in Denver, Aurora is more)

$200? Running a grow room?

We're all electric, in about 1,000 sq ft. $43 last month. We're in a high rise condo, so that helps, but wow, didn't think it helped that much.

[rezfreak]

Do you guys use mostly electric for heat then? I'm from nebraska and most people used gas heat and ranges there.

[davebarnes]

gas for hot water and heat
electricity for lighting, oven, A/C
and no, I do not have a grow room (I am a wino)

[TigerLily24]

Our house is somewhere in that range in size. I don't think I've ever paid more than $175.00 in any given month for electric and gas (we have gas heat and a gas stove) and that would have been at the height of the summer. Those months when neither the air nor heat are running, it costs less than $100.00 per.

Water usually runs about $75.00 per month (Aurora water.)

[rezfreak]

Holy crap 75 a month for water? yeesh. Hope that's some genuine spring water.

I thought it was bad that i paid 30 here in Florida (15 of that being "customer charge" aka providing customer service fee).

But, it looks like it will be semi-comparable to what i pay here. Currently we have a 2k sq foot house, in winter we pay about 100 a month for all utilities but summer it gets to 200-225, so a good average of ~165 a month over a year.

edit to add: oh, yes, i did forget we do have water savings since we use septic instead of sewer, now it makes sense.

Currently my average break down is ~30 for water
~25 for gas (hot water)
50 for electric in winter and up to 175 for electric in summer. (keeping AC on at a steady 76 year round though).

[coloradoalimony]

Originally Posted by rezfreak

Holy crap 75 a month for water? yeesh. Hope that's some genuine spring water.

I thought it was bad that i paid 30 here in Florida (15 of that being "customer charge" aka providing customer service fee).

But, it looks like it will be semi-comparable to what i pay here. Currently we have a 2k sq foot house, in winter we pay about 100 a month for all utilities but summer it gets to 200-225, so a good average of ~165 a month over a year.

edit to add: oh, yes, i did forget we do have water savings since we use septic instead of sewer, now it makes sense.

Currently my average break down is ~30 for water
~25 for gas (hot water)
50 for electric in winter and up to 175 for electric in summer. (keeping AC on at a steady 76 year round though).

There is simply a lot more water in Florida than in CO, although I know some areas have issues even there.

If you think $75 a month for water is bad, in some areas here, to build a house, the fee to hook up to the water system is $25,000.

[davebarnes]

Originally Posted by JD401

$200? Running a grow room? We're all electric, in about 1,000 sq ft. $43 last month. We're in a high rise condo, so that helps, but wow, didn't think it helped that much.

Duplex. Built in 2011.
1900 sqft + 800 sqft basement (open floor plan)
work at home so A/C runs a lot in Summer