now con ed, keyspan and marshalls owned me(more updates)

armchair_warrior wrote: apparently now i have 12 apartments that i have to pay. someone really screw up on this!

Maybe you could pass this cost onto the consumer. Explain to your tenants that they're now renting two apartments and their rent just doubled.

armchair_warrior wrote: yay! i left the message for the guy who is in charge of my acount. of course i learn this time put the messages as urgert! in the past i would just send the messages are normal.


he got back to me and told me, they'll most likely fix that problem on monday. cause today is already friday etc....

Are you going to change the topic of this thread to "CON EDISON RULZ" now, or will you wait to see what happens on Monday?

Yes, I had the same problem, my house was legally converted from a 3 family to a 2 family and Con Ed kept hasseling me about the third meter for, yes, about 2 years. The building was abandoned for many years and all the meters were stolen decades ago, but Con Ed insisted I was hoarding one. They threatened to take me to court etc. etc. Finally someone came, inspected my property and took my name off the no good egg-sucking chicken molesting meter stealing list.

Sadly, all the utility companies treat us like lepers rather than customers.
I had issues with the electric company and the Water Company.
When I got my house, I did not get a water bill for almost a year, nor even on the prior owner’s name, a year later I got a bill for a couple of thousands with penalties. I tried to negotiate a deal with them since a never got a bill but they would not hear of it.
The bills were supposedly accurate because they were an ‘actual’ readings of the meter – I couldn’t find one in the house and when I would bring this to their attention, they would sarcastically ask me if I knew what a meter look like. I could not get them to come to inspect their meter.

So after few years I was obligated to install a remote water reader for the meter, well it turns out there was no meter in this house. I was still being held responsible for the missing meter. I had to get a plumber and paid to have a meter installed. Once I had a meter I fought them to have a refund on the outrageously high bills I got for years. They agreed to monitor the usage of water for three-quarters to adjust my bill accordingly. After a year two years I finally got them to credit some money for the years I was over billed; by this time I could not get credit for all the time they over bill me because there was a “statute of limitations” on the time I could get some credit for.
Have I be the one owing them, they would have put a lien on my house, but because it is the company, they can rob me for some years because there is a ‘statute of limitations’ that protects them.

If you need something from the electric company, they want to charge you for everything, even to do a reading on Saturdays. They act like dictators, as such, they demand, they are always right, and we have no right to complaint or anything else.

I have a friend from Dominican Republic, and his family bought a generator to send to their relatives because they experience blackouts on a regular basis. I wish we could do the same thing so we would not have to do business with the utility companies here.

Fascinating reading. I mean it. Sometimes I think I want to buy a house, then your brutally honest posts bring me back down. Thank you. Good Luck.