He is full of it about the $70 every two months.  I was shocked to look at my hydro bills last week from 2002 for a house I was renting and while I recognize tenants are not too considerate with other people paying the hydro, the bills were about $275-300 a month....  I really did not expect that and I know I did a lot of updating afterwards (fridges, cfl's etc.).   There were no bills every two months in the GTA and my bills were higher then even with the Harris smog days (of course other variables such as updates helped).    But he is not being honest.