OK, I saw a post about a very high LADWP bill. I have a similar predicament. Please don’t clown me too hard.

My partner and I live in a an interesting living situation. It’s a house with a mother-in-law suite on the first floor, which is rented out by some random guy through our landlord. I think my landlord never got separate addresses for the two units. The mother in laws suite is basically a one bath studio. When we signed our lease we agreed to pay the random guys electric, not thinking it would be too bad. He is technically our “roommate” on the lease. Our landlord said it’s all on the same meter because it’s “one house”.

—(Side note I’m curious about the legality of this/ what my landlord is doing by not separating our house into two units- if anyone can weigh in)—-

Long story short we have consistently paid over 1k every two months for electric and sanitation combined. Last month was 1.4k… we run the AC when it gets hot, have a washer / dryer/ normal appliances and use.

And there are two houses on the lot that the landlord owns- one in front of us. We thought maybe we were paying for both houses - getting robbed- but We called ladwp and they said everything was fine and we weren’t paying for them.

What should we do?? Is it possible to pay what we are paying for essentially a 4bd 3bath house?