Originally Posted By: Pop_Rivit
Contact the utility company and find out what the averages are in the area where you're purchasing. You can also find out the history of usage from the current owners. Then you'll know for certain rather than guessing.
Originally Posted By: gregk24
I am estimating:
(per month)
$200 electric
$50 gas
$50 water
$25 trash
$25 sewer
$50 internet
Some of those seem extremely high. Unless it's a huge house or very poorly insulated, $200 in electric is very high. In the summer, when the air conditioning is running almost constantly we're 1/2 that to keep around 4,400 square feet cool (April's bill was $47). Same with gas-we use propane to heat the house and shop in the winter, along with cooking, grilling and clothes drying; if you were to amortize it out over 12 months it is less than $50/month. Water is around $30/month (septic tank so no monthly sewer costs).
The OP is in Florida. Totally different climate.
Depending on square footage and A/C or Heat pump SEER rating, $200 might be very optimistic. With 3 kids in the house, and all the electronic gizmos running, in the summer heat, we had a few electric bills in the $350 range. That's in a newer house, with a good AC unit but with all of the heavy users home...and coastal VA isn't quite Florida hot...