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Old 11-07-2008, 02:54 PM
 
Location: Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
159 posts, read 655,945 times
Reputation: 60

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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!

I know my complex is owned by a builder who says they will give you "up to"20% equity in your rent towards purchase of one of their homes provided you do not use a realtor. They sent me a couple of flyers shortly after I moved in with pictures of these houses. People they were 1000-1100 sq ft houses that look amazingly like the Habit for Humanity Houses we've all seen on TV for their price of $150-$175k. Isn't that special?

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!

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

Last edited by LandShark99; 11-07-2008 at 03:08 PM.. Reason: Added links to other cities
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Old 11-07-2008, 05:27 PM
 
Location: Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
159 posts, read 655,945 times
Reputation: 60
Guess I used up my "edit" so adding to this post. Wow this really is nationwide. I'm finding it all over this site. Here's some more links to other threads to read:

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

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

//www.city-data.com/forum/atlan...wer-w-out.html

//www.city-data.com/forum/charl...pay-water.html

//www.city-data.com/forum/tampa...eknow-how.html

//www.city-data.com/forum/austi...apartment.html

//www.city-data.com/forum/orlan...rlando-fl.html

//www.city-data.com/forum/madis...s-madison.html
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