I believe this to be accurate as well. If there are vacant units they generate nothing, if there are openings they’ll take the rate, sometimes people have sales quotas and get a little scummy.

Edibles.

1 Insulation and windows 2 change out the water heater setup 3 start turning things off, background noise is all good, but those habits are contributing to high electric

This is very good advice.

You are 100 percent allowed to split a water bill if terms are laid out in the lease. What law are you referencing?

The lease is the most important thing. It’s not illegal to have tenants split a bill, despite what some have offered. Now armed with all the information I’d proceed to the landlord, you have no problem paying for water, but paying for a leak that’s not in your unit is not your responsibility, and the timeliness of the repair matters as well. Email the landlord, don’t call, and if it’s handled in person or via a call, email them anyway highlighting the points you talked about. Ex- I was just reaching out after our conversation yesterday and just wanted to confirm…

Edit: the key legal term here is foreign load, the extra amount added to the bill by the leak, which should be pretty easy to show with records

Where are you getting this information? It is not illegal. As long as the terms are spelled out in the lease.

So the landlord wants you to pay extra because their plumbing infrastructure is inadequate and is leaking? This would be an immediate call to 311, I’d inform the landlord I’d pay my regular rate, or a 1/3 of last years bill from the same month, if every month is fairly consistent this is a no brainer. Get their responses documented. Also review your lease.

Stop down at night, and wait until the lights come on, it looks like it’s snowing everyday from all the asbestos. Granted this was 10+ years ago but that was the dirtiest place I’ve ever worked.