<human>: Long story short, my 3 roommates and I have been living in this apartment since last october. We got a bill today from the electric company saying they **'estimated' our consumption incorrectly for the past 6 months** and apparently we were using almost twice the amount we 'thought' we were using/paying for. Now Con Ed (our electric company) says we owe them twice the amount for the 6 months we didn't know we were using so much electricity. 

Our meter is not in our apartment and our landlord who doesnt live in the building failed to let the guy in to read the meters since **March**. We have our account set to autopay so we wouldn't have to worry about it and now they are saying to take it up with the landlord.

BTW we live on the 2nd floor above a starbucks so we couldnt have even tried to find the meter even if we wanted to.

Our lease is being renewed next month and our landlord is raising the rent by $100/month, hes a generally nice guy, and we already contacted him but haven't heard back yet today.

Any advice reddit?

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<bot>: Landlord never let in Con Ed guy, they said we used twice the electricity in the past 6 months, now they say we owe them for electricity we weren't aware we were using.