How much do you pay for gas and electricity?
$100.00? $150.00? More?
How many bedrooms are in your apartment?
I’m apartment hunting. I cam upon a nice place with several 1 bedrooms. The rent is higher than I would like to spend but gas and electricity are paid. So I need an idea of what others are paying for utilities to determine if it’s worth it.
BTW, it’s in Newhall, Ca!
I pay about 15 monthly for electric in Chi.
Memphis has a very low cost of living. I live in a very drafty one-bedroom duplex, and my utilities are about $30 in spring (no heat, no A/C), but as high as $200 in winter. With utility prices (especially gas) rising, I’d say that unless it’s really shockingly expensive, you’re probably going to come out on top.
Oh, my rent is $395 (low, even for Memphis; I lucked into this place).
I pay about $60 for gas and electricity in NYC, and I have a one-bedroom. Water is free. :-p
Well, it is California. Who the hell knows what electricity is going to cost in this next year? 
This past year, we’ve been living in an in-law unit where the cost of our rent includes utilities (including basic cable, water, garbage and electricity) and it has been nice to not deal with these things. But if you’re the only person, I doubt you’d be using $100 worth of gas & electric a month–unless you’re a constant-cooking, super-light saturated hot shower-taking fiend. I suppose, but I remember my utilities in Sacramento being no big deal, my gas usually around five bucks or so (once I went on a long vacation and received a bill for a dollar something) and my electricity didn’t even come close to breaking the bank, and this was when I was a starving student. 'Course, this was before the electricity “crisis” and I was working fulltime and going to school fulltime, so…YMMV.
Knoxville, TN - electric only, no gas.
My bill averages about $30 a month for a one bedroom. My last bill was around $45, but in the winter I had several below $30, so I figure $30 is about average.
To be honest, I was expecting higher prices for electricity.
Is power just more expensive here in the LA area?
Or have I just been too trusting when roommates told me how much I owed on a power bill?
In Knoxville also. Some how Lsura got off lucky for her KUB bill. I’m in a one bedroom. Without heat or air on it’s around $30-40. It has jumped up as high as $90 though during the winter. I also lived in a 4 bedroom that would have bills around $180.
When I lived in a two-bedroom apartment in Austin, my electricity in the summer would routinely cost me $150. And that was keeping the place as warm as I could stand it AND making sure I didn’t live in an apartment with much west-facing exposure. And this was over ten years ago.
OTOH, when I lived in LA, my electric bills never went above about $60 for a three-bedroom house because I neither had nor needed AC (close enough to the ocean to get the breeze). This was in the mid-90s.
It really depends on where you live. Have you asked friends in that area what they pay? You’d have a better chance of getting a realistic number, I suspect, than a random online sampling.
In L.A. my electricity bill is usually about $50 or $60 every other month. The gas bill is about $7/month. So figure about $30 or $35 per month combined. I don’t have a/c.
A lot of it depends on your habits and how well insulated the place is. If you like it cool in the house and live in a really hot area, you’ll probably be using a fair bit of A/C, and that really, really sucks up the electricity. If you want to be able to roast a turkey in your bedroom, you’ll be paying huge gas bills, especially if you live in an area with cold winters.
And if you live in a place where they stuck a couple sheets of corrugate cardboard in the walls and called it insulation, your bills will skyrocket just trying to keep the place under sweltering in the summer and above frigid in the winter. Dr.J lived in such a place during med school (it was half of an old, old house in the student ghetto), and his gas bills were astoundingly high, no warmer than the place was in the winter. Of course, the high ceilings and huge expanses of window didn’t help with that. They did, however, help the single window unit make the summers bearable.
East Texas, one-bedroom apartment with area of 530 square feet. Water included, no gas, electricity I have to pay for. I’m on a plan from the electric company such that instead of paying my actual bill every month with the fluctuations that accompany it, I pay a set amount every month which is kind of an averaged-out bill for the whole year. This is $46 a month, adjusted every few months if my usage is more or less than what they had assumed it would be.
Murfreesboro, TN
No gas, electricity is ranges between $50-60 a month, and we always have the AC on. Apartment is 2 bedrooms, about 1200 square feet or so.
Oh, I forgot the stats: One-bedroom. Approximately 600 sq. ft.
Gas and electricity, for me, are handled by the same company, and I pay every two months. I’ve only been here a few months (this apartment, anyway), but I’m paying around $75 a month for elec and gas and $40 for water.
Two bedrooms, no gas, last electric bill was around $75 (though it’s usually lower in the spring and fall).
Yeah - I tend to not run the heat much during the winter (only during that wicked cold spell we had this year, and even then I keep it as low as possible, because I’d rather be slightly cool). My highest point is actually during the summer. I also have the benefit of living in an older building that’s all brick and masonry. I think that helps with keeping heat/cool from escaping. I’m on the center floor and my windows face north.
In Atlanta, however, my electric bills tended to be $60-$70 during the summer and gas was about $40 during the winter (gas was for heating and hot water only. Summer gas bills were around $20).
2 bedroom, 1 bath, 950 sq. ft., all-electric.
It’s been as high as $130/month in the wintertime and my last bill was about $80 (for June). I have all original (early 80’s), low-efficiency appliances, which won’t be replaced since the electric bill isn’t my landlord’s concern. Grr.
I have a two bedroom, 900 sq ft apartment with washer and dryer. I pay $80-150 a month (getting close to the latter number now, since the A/C runs almost nonstop) in electricity, which includes a $15 garbage pickup charge, since our utilities are provided by the city. No gas.
Houston, Texas; one bedroom duplex. Last moonth’s electricity bill was $176 and gas was $23. During the winter electricity drops to ~$70.