Shared power meter (CT)
I just found out today that I have been paying for my neighbor's power bill for three years through a shared meter that we were just notified of. We got an email about it this morning, and I have no clue how the owner of this building did not know about it before now. We have just been thinking that our power bill was just expensive. We have cut almost all of our power usage, but our bill barely went down. We actually just went on hardship with our utility company (eversource) for our electric account because we were just about to get our power disconnected last week.
We simply can't afford to pay for our middle aged neighbor and his kids to live. We contacted our utility company and they're sending out an investigation tech this upcoming week.
What I'm wondering though, as I have never dealt with anything like this, is what now? We owe a lot on that account. Like $4,000. At least half of that bill doesn't belong to us. We now know that it is the surplus of what we couldn't afford to pay for our neighbor's usage.
In Connecticut, I know that the landlord will now be responsible for this debt, but how do we get back the thousands of dollars that we have already paid our utility company for our neighbor's power usage? Do we go after the land lord for that? I'm not sure what to do next.