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Hey Trebuchet,
Apartments are notoriously bad for electric bills.
The are designed to be cheap to build, but not to run. If I built my own house, I would go the opposite - put in good materials and design, and reap the rewards for years.
When I was in an apartment, it was electric everything. We were in the lower unit. It was split-level with another apartment above it and on the end of the building.
I think our upstairs neighbor got all our heat. We were on the north end of the building (where the winter wind comes) and even though we were on the end, there were no windows on that wall, so light was terrible.
Just do all the little tricks you can to cut down on electric use. At least in our apartment, the electric heat was individually controllable in each room, so we could turn it on and off as needed.
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