How To Look Up Utility Bills For An Address: The Ultimate Guide

When you’re moving to a new place, you’ll want to know what utilities that place has before signing the lease. It’s also helpful if your current home won’t have utilities when you move out. These details are especially important if you will be applying for utilities or other services from that company once you move. What if your old residence had a different utility company? Will your new address have the same one? If not, how do you find that information? And what does all of this mean for your Internet provider and cable bill? We don’t mind readers, but we do know how to help with figuring out all these details. Read on for everything you need to know about keeping track of utility bills for an address.

How To Look Up Utility Bills For An Address?

1. Shop Around For Service Providers:

If you plan to move to a new residence, make sure you do your homework on what utilities that place has. It’s also helpful if your current home doesn’t have any of the utilities it would have once you move out since some companies offer discounts or other incentives if you sign up before moving out of your old house. This can save a lot of hassle when it comes time to switch providers. If you don’t know what company that place has, try checking online.

Free tools will usually list all the utility companies in the area with their most common services, along with whichever ones they provide in every location they sell services (Locations and Providers ).

2. Check Each Utility Bill:

The easiest way to find info on how much each service costs is by using a website or app (or both) for each utility. These sites or apps will help you get all the details about services and bills by blocking ads and advertising junk mail, respectively. This allows you to look up bills without getting any advertisements from them! To look at their websites, simply go to their respective websites. Some sites also allow searching by location.

Here are some of our favorite free tools for finding who provides which utilities where:

3. Collecting Biller Information:

After looking at all these bills, it’s time to figure out which company is providing different kinds of services and what those services are, along with when they are paid. You may want to put this information on a table so you can see everything together. Also, if anyone in your family works for the company that provides the service, there’s a good chance they will know who the biller is and how to get info on any bills or services that don’t show up in those listings.

4. Assessing Your Bills:

At this point, the bills should be sorted into a calendar-based list of which utility company provided each service and when it was last used. Once you have that sorted, you’ll be able to see which utilities provide what services, what those services cost, and how much time was spent on certain bills (e.g., electricity, water, gas). This can help you to calculate exactly how much utilities cost in terms of money or time on your budget. If there are several different kinds of bills with the same amount due at the same time – such as several electric bills all due at once with the same amount paid on each one – then you may want to consolidate them all into a single payment or schedule payment reminders instead of paying multiple times for charges that happen all at once (like some water and electric bills).

5. Making Payments:

Now it’s time to set up automatic payments for specific dates every month or week until all your bills are paid off! Automatic payments make payment easier because if you’re consistent about making them (i.e., not skipping any), they will get deducted automatically from your account so you don’t have to remember what’s owed when (also called “debiting”) or having to go online and enter details each month (or as often as they change). Also, having different automatic payments makes it possible for you to put money aside before actually paying off the bill so there is no penalty for paying a bill that is past due.

Usually, your utility bills will be paid online through the bank you use. You’ll need to set up an account with that utility company or credit card company to be able to pay them online (or you may need a new account if they automatically create one for you when you switch) and then set up automatic payments so they’re deducted from the account every month or week until payment is done.

How To Find Out Which Utilities Are Available At A Specific Address.

1. Determine the current gas and power companies in your area or city. You can often find that information on their websites, though public utility companies usually don’t make it too obvious. Some cities have utilities that are owned by different entities that dissolve competition between the various providers (i.e., electric and gas companies).
2. Find out the exact address where you wish to switch to a new company, including the names of all property owners who own houses on which utility lines are located (no need to check for those owners if they don’t have anything on their side of the street).
3. Go online and search sites like GetGasPrices or GasBuddy for gas prices at that specific address or zip code. See the above examples for how to find out how much it costs at a specific address if there’s not already an existing set price listed online.
4. Figure out what’s available at your address by either calling them directly or checking their website for maps and contact details, especially if you want to sign up with a competitor since they will usually offer open enrollment periods where you can switch service providers without penalty during those periods while saving money through lower rates than what you’re currently paying (this may only apply in some cases; call each provider before switching!)
5. Make sure you understand all contract terms before switching so you know what to expect when signing up with your new provider! I suggest reading through all contract terms first as part of this “contract reading” process.
6. If you’re unable to find any options at your address, check nearby areas and other companies’ websites for available service options (again, I suggest doing this as part of your “contract reading” process).
7. Call or visit whichever company you decide to switch from and ask them if they have specials or discounts for switching from another provider. They may have a special and tell you that you have to take the spot for one year before it’s available, but the actual cost difference should be very small if you know where to shop and can find a competitor at a cheaper rate for all localities covered by that current provider if it’s available (i.e., smaller cities versus larger cities) since the rates can vary widely per gas company.

How To Find Past Utility Bill Information

1. Be sure to have your current utility bill for the last year or so on hand! It’s particularly important if you’re switching from a gas company to a water main provider, but also applicable in some cases for other utilities as well.
2. Call your current water company to see if they have records of past bills on file and ask them to look up an old bill (if they make it easy enough). You can also call the local utility regulators if they can look up the meter reading data (these are usually public records), but this is best done over the phone by calling the customer service department based at each utility provider’s physical headquarters office.
3. Go online and search websites like EnergyInDepth, NJ Watchdog, or Go Verify. See the above examples for how to find out how much it costs at a specific address if there’s not already an existing set price listed online.
4. When you find the local utility provider’s website, search through previous bills to see what past billing records they may have.
5. Consider asking your water provider if they already have records on file of a customer who switched to a different water main provider in the area (they’re usually more than happy to provide this information once it’s requested!). They usually offer this information in their customer service FAQs.
6. Call or visit whichever company you decide to switch from and ask them if they have records of past bills on file and how much it cost at a specific address if any such records exist (and request them to perform an old billing lookup on your behalf!).
7. Search online for where utility rates are higher or lower than average or what areas have a higher need for additional cost-based infrastructure and see where these areas with high infrastructure needs are situated so you can shop for the best price for areas in those high infrastructure needs areas before switching!

When You Don’t Know Which Utilities Are At An Address

1. Be sure to have your last couple of utility bills on hand.
2. Call the utility providers listed on any documents you found in step 1. If one of them lists the meters of a company that you haven’t called yet and it’s close to your house, call them first so they can find out which water main and/or sewer provider your address is on and give them this information!
3. Go online and search websites like EnergyInDepth, NJ Watchdog, or Go Verify. See the above examples for how to find out which utilities are at an address if there’s not already an existing set price listed online.
4. When you find the utility website, see if they have a billing lookup tool where you can enter a specific address to see past bills!
5. If it’s not listed, call them and ask them which providers they’re using
6. Search online for where utility rates are higher or lower than average or what areas have a higher need for additional cost-based infrastructure and see where these areas with high infrastructure needs are situated so you can shop for the best price before switching!
7. When you find the utility website, see if they have a billing lookup tool where you can enter a specific address to see past bills!
8. If it’s not listed, call them and ask them which providers they’re using!
9. When you find the utility website, see if they have a billing lookup tool where you can enter a specific address to see past bills!

Conclusion

If you’re moving to a new house or apartment, you’ll need to know what utilities are there. It’s not always obvious, either. Some utility providers don’t mark the poles outside with their logos, for example. If you don’t want to go door to door and visit each utility company’s office, you can simply call them up and ask. It’s quick, easy, and painless – and it can save you a lot of stress later on. Now that you know what utilities are and how to locate them, you can feel confident about your next move. You can also feel better about helping out a friend or family member who needs to find out what utilities are at a specific address. The only thing left is to enjoy your new home!