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Renters who pay for water, how much are your bills? : r/AskNYC

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Please read the sidebar on old.reddit.com/r/asknyc before posting since new reddit does not allow space for rules/links/guidance. I live in a 3BD2B with my two roommates in a small building (3 units). No washing machine or dishwasher, and we all work outside of the home. Our lease stipulates that we pay all utilities, including water and heat. I pay our other utilities directly but our landlord asks that we send him $100 every month with rent for water. He doesn't send me a bill or statement from the water company. I've never paid for water in NYC so I don't know if this is a reasonable cost or not. Our landlord has been a little shady before (tried to charge an illegally high application fee, often unresponsive when we have problems) so I wanted to ask if everything sounds legal and get an idea of what other people pay for water. It's incredibly rare to have an apartment submetered for water (unless it's a condo). The very likely scenario is that there is only one meter for the buildi

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