[Neighbors] Water Bill

[Jinghong Chen]

Ours is $578 in August,  about 2X of last August (August 2025).  It was
about 250 last August.

We do not know the exact reason, but it may be related to the rate change
that took effect on October 1, 2025, as shown in the table below.
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On Tue, Sep 1, 2026 at 10:31 AM Jamie Rogers via Neighbors <
neighbors at lj-estates.com> wrote:

> Ours is over $600 this month - and I haven’t increase water usage v. Last
> year.  I’ve never had a bill this high.
>
> Has the rate increased?  Or how do we get a meter read check?
>
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2026 at 10:24 AM Rachael Holley via Neighbors <
> neighbors at lj-estates.com> wrote:
>
>> We did have a substantial mis-read on our meter for June.   However even
>> with that corrected it was still higher than our typical summer months.
>>  My husband suspects they don’t actually read the meter monthly, only
>> estimate and the past few months were actual meter readings, causing the
>> big increases.
>>
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>> *From:* Neighbors <neighbors-bounces at lj-estates.com> on behalf of
>> lopazor via Neighbors <neighbors at lj-estates.com>
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, 01 September 2026 10:09:10
>> *To:* Kate Blackmon <kateblackmon1 at hotmail.com>
>> *Cc:* LJE <neighbors at lj-estates.com>
>> *Subject:* Re: [Neighbors] Water Bill
>>
>> $750 and my grass looks like it was hit by a wildfire.  How we don’t get
>> more rain is mind boggling as evaporation drains my pool…. More water there
>> just to keep up.
>>
>> Roy
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2026 at 9:49 AM Kate Blackmon via Neighbors <
>> neighbors at lj-estates.com> wrote:
>>
>> Same.   2 people living here and May was $89, June $300, July $450 and
>> August $900.
>>
>> Kate
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Sep 1, 2026, at 9:26 AM, Richard Misdom via Neighbors <
>> neighbors at lj-estates.com> wrote:
>>
>> 
>>
>> Ditto, just paid $515 with fees, operating costs are approaching $2k
>> monthly
>>
>> 214.287.1350 <(214)%20287-1350>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2026, 9:06 AM Stefani Rea via Neighbors <
>> neighbors at lj-estates.com> wrote:
>>
>> Same!
>>
>> > On Sep 1, 2026, at 8:52 AM, Kathryn Williams via Neighbors <
>> neighbors at lj-estates.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello Neighbors,
>> >
>> > We have always had what I thought was a very high water bill for 2
>> people living in a house and are only in town maybe 2.5-3 weeks a month at
>> most. It was $537 this past month. I am curious as to whether others have
>> high water bills. It is crazy that my water bill is more than the
>> electricity bill. I have checked the property and sprinkler system for
>> leaks and there are none. We do have a pool, no leaks in it either, but
>> that should not make it this high.
>> >
>> > Thanks for the feed back.
>> >
>> > Kathy Williams
>> > 4214 Reaumur Dr.
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