Having fun with Utilities

Who knew that utilities could be fun and exciting all at the same time!  After hours on the phone with each utility company... several of them involved in figuring out what is metered where and thus, what are we responsible for, finally got out of the office and on site at my first garage apartment appointment.

As it was 90+ degrees outside, tried to get there ahead of the candidate and get the AC turned on.  Ooops.  No electric.  In spite of the $135.00 deposit and service charge I paid last Thursday to have my "smart meter" turned on.  I guess this one isn't very smart because the power was still off.  Fortunately, the tenant candidate loved the place, cigarette smell, no lights, no cooling and all.  I might be under-priced *sigh*, we're at $400.00, including water and she's paying $500.00 for a room.

Got back to the office and called the electric company, "uh, we dunno but it never got turned on."  A few jokes about remedial education for the meter and I should have power shortly.

On to the shop.  Open door, strong odor of natural gas.  The upstairs tenant comes visiting.  Freaks out about the gas odor.  I call the gas company and sure enough, they red tag me for a leak.  Now waiting for the plumber to find, fix, and get it back on.  He scolded me "never call the gas company for a leak."  I managed not to tell him he wouldn't have agreed to an emergency call of the gas company hadn't shut us off.

Thankfully, this isn't my first rodeo and I was fully expecting some of this to happen.  On the bright side, I just collected my first application fee and the app it on it's way to the screening agency.