Posted on 02/25/2010 5:18:17 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
The vice chairman of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission could scarcely contain his scorn.
Before the commission was yet another appeal from a Philadelphia-area family, again seeking a break on unpaid electric and gas bills that by last year were closing in on $30,000.
This family lived in a $986,000 house on the Main Line. The breadwinner, until recently, had earned well more than $100,000 per year. Yet he and his wife were in hock to creditors, ranging from Uncle Sam to their former synagogue - and had regularly been stiffing Peco Energy for five years, breaking payment plan after payment plan
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Obviously, these people did not have the right to privacy. /s
“DIS-CO-NECT!”
how could $100,000 a year support living in $900,000 home?
unless they had been in it for 50 years and value went up.
but even then, property taxes would be huge.
Interest only loan. Basically a lifetime lease.
(Pssst, “inheritance” ~ some people have resources beyond their current employment)
Perhaps they are good at saving elsewhere such as by using school laptops instead of buying their own.
Perhaps a reassessment during the real estate boom times. If that is indeed the assessed value, the real estate tax is probably in the area of 40k per year.
well, its one thing to be able to purchase something, but to
maintain a million dollar home and pay the property
taxes takes even more. and if you have that much inheritance
you could pay bills. i might be able to purchase a porsche(used that is)
but the insurance and maintenance would be way too much.
... "My personal opinion is that it's not relevant," Haltzman said. "I'm not going to get into those issues."
I hope they lose, just so this scumbag lawyer doesn't get paid either.
Or maybe there is more to the story . Maybe a tech savvy family member figured out how to do something to the laptop to create grounds for a lawsuit?
Anything is possible
I read elsewhere that students are not allowed to use their own computers. They must use those supplied by the school.
Unbelievable. I live in a very big house. My electric bill doesn't amount to more than $1000 a year. If we used gas that might come to another $1000.
Furthermore, I regularly go to bat for friends who are in arrears on utilities. I've seen poor families threatened with shutoffs for defaulting on a payment plan by paying five dollars short of the agreed amount. Five dollars. And the electric company agent said you only get one payment plan in a lifetime, you mess up, you never get another. (I'm referring here to another electric company in PA, not Peco.)
They are most likely not paying their bills under the advice of their atty in order to show damages re the lawsuit with Interstate.
They remind me of Balloon Boy’s parents. And they might just have hit the jackpot with this one.
Obviously voted for Obama, right?
You reminded me of back in 1999, I had an 1997 Z-28 I wanted to sell, I had a willing buyer and he had financing OK from a bank. He was 18 years old and when he found out that the bank required that he have full coverage insurance, the deal was off as the insurance monthly payments would be more than his car payments.
A very underrated and funny movie
“Even so, it was the apparent failure to pay a fee - a $55 insurance payment to permit the Robbinses’ son Blake to take his laptop home from Harriton High School - that might have prompted the district to activate the Web cam.”
Well there’s an interesting prospect! Yeah, let’s see how that argument flies! Next: 0bama wants to make health insurance mandatory. How long before the “insurer” is justified in activating a spy camera in your home?
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