Suspended not waived. Do you really think that RIE will just let you not pay bills for the winter then go back to normal afterwards?

Do you think the majority of people in RI do not want cheaper electricity?

We all live in the same state and we all got our energy prices raised at an equal rate. Stop acting like energy price increases are made on a person-to-person basis.

Clearly bitching about it all the time isn’t bringing the prices down so suck it up and deal with it like we all have to.

It feels like climate change and using a metal straw. Sure you can make improvements, but when 98% of all emissions are corporate, making small changes is putting the onus on the home owner instead of predatory rate hikes and 2 types of delivery charges.

I disagree. Seeing more gives an indication that it's not just one person, or not just my house. If you don't want to see them, you could just not go to this subreddit.

Glad to hear you liked Blackstone. We are using them for our upcoming wedding.

I’m not sure people should be allowed to do whatever they want with their property.🤷🏼‍♂️

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/26/opinion/arizona-water-colorado-river-saudi-arabia.html

We thought the list was pretty good. Going with Blackstone Catering for our upcoming wedding.

>the state was conducting a full forensic analysis of Santa on their dime.

Obviously, the state would never do that because nobody wants to know what that report will find out.

So glad I bought my house in the late 2010's. Even with it being the tail end of the buyers market it was discouraging at certain points. If I wasn't able to get a house I was just going to pack up and move to the west coast. Looking at it now there is no way I could afford my house with the interest rate where it is now.

Same

I moved here from NYC when I was in my 30's. I didn't drive and took the test in RI in 1996. There was no parallel parking on the test! My son took the test in 2016 and there was no parallel parking. He can parallel park though, but I sure can't.

Supply & demand. Everyone wants a house but not enough are available + not enough sellers.

Also, the cost of a house. Property, concrete, yard, wood, appliances, dry wall, lighting, flooring, every single piece of the house cost x amount and when added together equals a larger price.

houses in new england are made of wood. If the price of wood goes up as much as it did during covid (because our lumber comes from canada and borders were closed) the price of a house will greatly increase.

My advice is to do what i did and buy a multi family and rent out 1 or 2 units while living in the one remaining. You can use that projected income as a boost to what you are approved for. I was approved for 250k for single family and 500k for a 3 family. Big difference. My 3 unit is collecting $2500 in rent and i pay $300 plus water / sewage / taxes on the rest. In a couple years i will repeat the process and in about 5-8 years use all 6 rents to pay for a single family. I would not recommend starting* with a single family.

Who's... Whatever did she do whatever to to get that?

Yeah, I think a lot of the shock comes from the fact that suddenly their rate is higher when they haven’t changed any of their normal habits! Doesn’t mean they aren’t willing to make changes to save electricity (for example, I used to leave the above-stove light on at night as a nightlight and now I don’t).

Your point about making sure there isn’t some major factor using energy that didn’t exist before is a good suggestion, but I think most people are just surprised by how much their costs have changed when everything else has been a constant.

I like parallel parking.

I think the fatal flaw in collective action here is that the people who advocate for it fail to realize how many people don't agree with them.

I parallel park every day for work (Pawtucket). Besides that, I lived in another city for a while and had to frequently parallel park.

There are A LOT of new people here (first/new house, first/new apartment), which is why OPs post is useful. Just because you’ve lived in a cold state doesn’t necessarily mean you know or understand utility billing. I do understand that there are those that are just venting about the increased costs as well.

It is $3800 to rent the venue. You must bring in your own tables and chairs for the Mediterranean room reception. Also, 110 max.

We used Blackstone catering. I highly recommend them. Everything was flawless.

It is a beautiful place and we really enjoyed it bit our budget went over by quite a lot for all the add on's.

Supply and demand. AirBnb reduced rental availability so people decided to buy because interest rates were low. More buyers, less supply. Now the interest rates and taxes go up. Rentals get higher still because landlords' maintenance is astronomical. More want to buy. Rinse and repeat.

The funniest part is that I saw this on Facebook and it was flooded with boomers commenting stuff like “I can’t believe they’re using my tax dollars on this!!!!!” Like they genuinely believed that the state was conducting a full forensic analysis of Santa on their dime.

Same here... we looked at 50+ houses in 2020 and made aggressive bids on 10 and didn't even get close. Some of them are up $200k in value, since. Would have been our first home... I expect we'll keep renting for at least another couple years before things improve.

So much for... you know... ever being able to retire.

Finally someone speaking some truth. We come to the Internet to complain!

Hear! hear!