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the first few days you move in beware of people knocking on your door making it seem like you need a water heater. In can be confusing hookin up all your utility companies and easy to fall prey to signing a long term water heater rental lease. Well easy for me at least because now I'm stuck on a 10 year term for water heater rental when I could have gone tankless or just buy a water heater.

Just checked my bills $45 last month for gas and $115 for electricity. Thinking of putting solar panels that should cut my electricity bill down hopefully. I just insulated the attic last winter so see if that does anything. I had one of those door blow test thing done to see where the air leaks are in the house when I first moved in. Could be a good investment and I got some rebate money back on improvements.

oh btw furnace is old 1986. Going to let it die before I buy a new one lol.
 
There was a thread discussing utilities and where is best to spend money on upgrades....water heater was not one, furnace def was. For reference, in summer my water heater and my drier consume $3 worth of gas a month, the rest is BS charges tacked on top....in winter this number skyrockets to $50 in gas plus BS charges...so even a 30% more efficient water heater will only net you a buck or two...a more efficient furnace will save a lot more.

....and yes i keep having people knock on my door pretending they are one sort or another utility company claiming they are there to inspect my water heater....seeing as how i purchased it and had it installed they get a nice "Faark off" and a door slammed in their face.

Before i upgraded, this one guy came downstairs and barely looked at the at-the-time Direct Energy unit and told me i need a new one and to sign here....right...i'll get right on that.
 
Some of you guys seem to spend quite a bit on utilities.
I live in a small house with my wife (no kids) in Mississauga and spend roughly the following:
Gas: max $100 a month this past winter - much less in the summer (owned water heater and furnace) -- and the furnace is 25 years old and in desperate need of being replaced - kept at 21 when at home/awake, 17 when not home/asleep.
Electricity: Roughly $70 (comes bi-monthly) so ~$35 a month (before time of use -- not sure what it will be next bill).
Water: Roughly $60 every 3 months -- or $20 a month.
House insurance: ~$40 a month
Property tax: ~$225 a month
Phone (CIKtel): $10 a month
Internet (Acanac): $40 a month
 
psycho44 said:
the first few days you move in beware of people knocking on your door making it seem like you need a water heater. In can be confusing hookin up all your utility companies and easy to fall prey to signing a long term water heater rental lease. Well easy for me at least because now I'm stuck on a 10 year term for water heater rental when I could have gone tankless or just buy a water heater.
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The one in the house is a rental unfortunately... but I welcome anyone to knock on my door. If my dog doesn't scare them off I will gladly waste an hour of their time allowing them to answer all of my pointless question. Only so I can see their reaction when I tell them I am not really interested and show them the door... or better yet sign "just killing time" on their contract

But on a side note home inspection and financing are good to go so it looks like I need to start packing.

p.s. is a 3.29% 5 year fixed a decent deal?
 
Grizzy_89 said:
The one in the house is a rental unfortunately... but I welcome anyone to knock on my door. If my dog doesn't scare them off I will gladly waste an hour of their time allowing them to answer all of my pointless question. Only so I can see their reaction when I tell them I am not really interested and show them the door... or better yet sign "just killing time" on their contract

But on a side note home inspection and financing are good to go so it looks like I need to start packing.

p.s. is a 3.29% 5 year fixed a decent deal?
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3.29% on 5 year fixed looks awesome! I was looking to buy another house. Couple weeks ago TD quoted me 3.49% for 4 years fixed but I'd gladly trade for yours.

Diesel: I'm guessing you're also using Enersource and your property tax is similar to mines so I think the house would be similar lol. Don't know why my electricity bill is so high. Last bill was $240 and the bill before was $260. My gas bill was only $45 last month so something must not be right.

Internet usage doesn't seem to be much as it never exceeds 25 Gb of bandwidth per month so don't think anyone is using the computer much. Don't have cables so not much tv watching. Though one of the tenant likes to take half hour hot bath.
 
I have a really old fridge...and i know that sucker is hitting me big time on the electricity, along with the as-old oven. I also have my PC running 24/7 along with a few other electronics....running the lathe/lights etc in the garage is also not helping.

its discouraging to sit there and try to lower your gas bill as much as possible and realize no matter how much YOU try and save there is always gonna be $30 worth of BS added charges every month.
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