• gigachad@feddit.de
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    11 months ago

    As someone who rents an appartment, I do not have a sense for heating and what I can afford. I simply get the bills one year later

      • agrammatic@feddit.de
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        11 months ago

        I’m not sure how a personal budget app can help you keep track of a Heizkostenverteiler/heating cost allocator. There’s many unknowns during the operation time and even the landlord is given a year to crunch the numbers before they bill the tenants.

        What is progress is that people on district heating now get their kWh consumption readings every few months.

        • lemmyvore@feddit.nl
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          11 months ago

          One year, wow. And I thought having the district heating bills lag by 2-3 months due to bureaucracy was bad. 😆 Although in a way I guess it’s more intuitive, if you pay for January of previous year in January. Here we pay for January in March and it’s a bit weird to get a large heating bill when it’s getting warm out.

          • zaphod@feddit.de
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            11 months ago

            In Germany you pay “in advance” and then at the end of the year they calculate how much you actually used and give you a bill stating how much you still owe or how much they’ll have to refund.