Grossly under-billed
For a while now I've been wondering why I only have to pay $1-2 per month for water. I thought it might have had something to do with all the rain that Seattle gets (lots of extra water, or something).
A letter came today which cleared it up:
I'm wondering how something like this even happens. How can you not notice that your revenue is ten times less than normal for an entire year? Granted, the error probably only happened in one apartment complex out of many, but still..
Posted on August 19, 2008
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August 19th, 2008 - 00:13
Redmond has weird laws where apartment complexes have to tax their residents on behalf of Redmond for any water usage. I suspect its a pass-through item for Avalon Bear Creek, and they’ve been charging the wrong tax rate.
August 19th, 2008 - 09:32
Hmm, that could be it. But a 10x difference seems pretty big for a tax error!
August 20th, 2008 - 07:15
Wow, that is some miscalculation! People in Seattle must be REALLY nice, though, because if you lived here? You’d be paying that difference, plus interest! I kid you not. And you’d say, “But it wasn’t my fault!” and they’d say, “That doesn’t matter and it IS your fault that we didn’t notice – PAY!” And you’d say, “But how?” and they’d just laugh an evil laugh and disappear into a dark mist. That is how The Man rolls in the Midwest…
August 20th, 2008 - 10:23
I think your water bill is still cheap after a 10x raise in prices, but that is compared to Colorado, which I would expect!
Anyway, perhaps they only mis-charged your apartment complex and they didn’t notice for a long time because it wasn’t a big portion of their revenue.
What was your bill like before July 2007?
August 20th, 2008 - 10:53
hmm.. I don’t really remember exactly what it was before. Something like $20, which is about a 10x difference. Either way I guess it is not that bad 🙂