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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
A co-worker recently had a 4k sq/ft house built on Long Island. The builder needed electricity on the lot for the work, so my co-worker set up the account. The bills never arrived at his old house, he assumed they were rolled into his regular bills at the then current house. There was no mailbox at his new one until it was done. But the power stayed on. He forgot to shut it off when the house was done. Now they're coming after him and it's for several thousand dollars.
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Your coworker must be doing very well to build a house that size on LI. I assume it's towards the East end, bought the only place you can find property to build on.
Had a similar issue when we built the house in TX. Something about us having one account # that identified us as customers but separat account numbers for the houses. Wife had been paying both under one account and apparently it was too much for them to figure out we had a credit on our account in the exact dollar amount that they claimed we were delinquent. They sent a notice and my wife knowing she paid the bill and the money being withdrawn from our checking account just assumed there was some lag in their billing system and ignored it.
They cut us off the day we scheduled the movers to move us into the new house.
Middle of July, 100+ out and no A/C. That sucked.