- Wow, so you guys are this close to closing on your house.
There's a couple of things that you need to wrap up
before that day actually comes,
and one of those things is utilities.
Let's talk about that next.
Dave Edwards, Treasure Valley Dave here,
and you're gonna be moving
into your house pretty soon, right?
Before you do, you wanna make sure you get your utilities
turned over to your name.
That way, it'll be good to go on the day you move in.
You're probably looking for a list of utilities
here in the Treasure Valley,
the Boise Nampa area, something like that.
What do these utilities look like?
Well, we do have separate gas company,
the separate electric company,
unlike some place like maybe California or something,
where it's all one.
Also we have our water, and sewer, and trash
is typically provided through the city.
So you end up with three bills for that.
You'll also probably be wanting internet,
and here in the Treasure Valley area,
the two biggies are CenturyLink
and that's internet through your phone line,
or Sparklight which used to be Cable ONE,
which is internet through your cable.
So there's a couple different things to check out.
Which one's better, which one's faster?
I don't know.
I talk with people from different areas
and they seem to like one over the other,
or vice versa someplace else.
So the best thing to do is
maybe we'll talk to the person
that's moving out of your house,
or some people in the neighborhood, or things like that.
Maybe get references online or something.
Another thing that we have up here
that's different than a lot of places,
is we have irrigation water that comes to our properties.
That's separate from the water
that comes to your house for drinking.
This irrigation water is the same water
that they put out on the fields and stuff like that.
It's paid once a year, and it's a flat rate,
and it's not metered so you can use as much as you want.
So how much do utilities cost?
Well let's start with that irrigation one.
That goes up a little bit every year,
this time it's like $136
and that's one time in the spring
for the entire rest of the year,
and you use as much water as you want.
Don't be wasteful, but water your garden
water your yard and stuff like that.
Now my power, electricity, and my gas
together that's usually about 100 bucks a month.
In the summertime, electricity's more
and my gas is almost nothing.
In the wintertime my gas is more,
my electricity is almost nothing.
Those two things together
usually average out to about 100 bucks a month.
Then the water, trash, and sewer,
that comes every other month.
I live here in Nampa,
and it's about 130 something dollars every two months.
For 65 bucks a month, you get water, sewer, and trash
which also includes recycle.
That's kinda what the runs.
For internet I use CenturyLink,
and that runs me about $65 a month,
and I pay extra so I can have that lightning fast service
and stuff like that,
but that doesn't seem too unreasonable.
That's the information on utilities, in general.
Now specifically, what about the process
of getting them transferred over to your name.
Well, about three weeks out, you wanna figure out
what providers that you have in your area
and if you have a choice, which one you wanna go with.
A great resource for you to find out
who is available in your area is my website.
I know you're surprised, there's a link below.
Now you can go there under the resources tab
and we've got a list of all the different
contact information that you want for your utilities.
So most of these, to change over the utility to your name,
is just a matter of going on the website
and putting in your information
and the date that's it's gonna happen.
There may be some places that it takes a phone call,
but most of these, I mean this is Idaho,
we've got electricity up here now.
We have the internet, we can do almost everything on that.
One last thing, even though it's not a utility as such
is to make sure you update your name with the post office.
That way you can have your mail
rerouted from wherever you live now, up to here
on the date that you want it done.
That way you don't miss out on anything at all.
I know you can do that on the website as well,
and you can do it in person once you get up here.
I've gotta tell you, I've so enjoyed sharing this
important information with you guys today
about utilities and how to make sure
they get turned into your name.
For the specific information on who to contact,
go to my website, check out the resources tab
and you'll find that information there.
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As always, Treasure Valley Dave here,
looking forward to helping you get home.