Good afternoon,
I live in a rent stabilized apartment and the new landlord recently renovated the whole building and got rid of the oil hot water heater which used to provide the tenants with hot water at no cost to us. They got rid of that hot water heater and went with separate electric hot water heaters. The issue is that it's now hooked up to our apartments electric and the electric bill is almost $200 dollars a month now. It used to be around $80.00 a month. I know the electric hot water heater is causing this. Are they allowed to change it like that forcing us to pay a much higher electric bill? They didn't notify us that it would make our electric bill double from what we always paid. Please advise. Thanks so much.