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As I said I could be... Or, rather, I said, "You may be right." Anyway, I'm ok with being wrong. It's happened before and I'm sure it will happen again.  |
Nah, my fault for being terse - comes of trying to multitask posting with giving out Halloween goodies.
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Then again, your plan doesn't sound like the "Balanced Bill" arrangement (as I was offered) anyway. Just seems like they spread out your payments to make things more even throughout the year, rather than project a year in advance. That makes more sense.
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They do project - that's why the first year was too high (they were going off the bills from the last owner, and the first thing we had done was to replace all the windows with energy saving units). But they're good about adjusting, and after that first year their estimates have generally been between $20 and $50 over my useage for the year. Pretty close calculating, but I can't complain so far.
Steve had a good point, though - if you have a good customer history with them, you could probably bring the monthly payment down. And you also have to look at your useage cycle - for us it makes sense because of the start date being in the fall and electric heat being our major use. For our neighbours, with gas heat and their major use being the A/C, it's not so tempting.
