tideblue

tideblue t1_j6rxem7 wrote

I got hosed on utility bills a few years ago. Moved into a small 1-BR, and setting up utilities was extremely expensive. Here it turns out there was a couple living there before me, who worked from home and ran up the electric bill every month with heating in the Winter. They billed me for their usage history for like six months, and wouldn’t give me a refund but “credit that would go to my next bill.”

Basically paid my electric for the rest of the time I lived there, and didn’t get any kind of refund when I closed the account.

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tideblue t1_ixi9f2w wrote

Same with vehicle registration. PA will let you renew online but you need to print it out yourself, and an auto shop won’t be able to scan it off your phone.

One year I renewed that way, and forgot about printing or saving the new registration entirely. Had to go to a notary public for a new printout, which cost a small fee.

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tideblue t1_itcxkr9 wrote

Every new commercial business these days falls into the following categories: gas station/fast food, car wash, medical facility, senior community, or warehouse. If you add luxury apartments and new homes on old farmland, that's nearly all that happens in PA. It's just depressing at this point. Drive on 81 and it's warehouses and farms (and farms turning into warehouses) for miles./

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