[StBernard] water board craziness

[Westley Annis]

I think you might just have to pay the deposit if you want the water to be 
turned on, even just to check for leaks.  If you are looking to fix the 
house and rent it out, then the tenants or person who is going to live there

would have to put a deposit when it is time for them to move in.  If you 
still have a bill with the water company at that time, they will probably 
take their payment out of the deposit and refund you the difference if there

is any.  All the utility companies are working that way, they are all 
requiring a deposit, most always have.  Entergy used to let you turn on 
electricity to a rental without a deposit if you had a home account with 
them, then they would just charge the small amount of electricity that was 
used to your home account and not required a deposit.  This was before the 
hurricane, now they made us pay a $700 deposit to get the power turned on to

our rental. If you had an account with the water company for that property 
before the hurricane and did not get a refund from them, then they do not 
required another deposit for that property.  Since this is a new property 
you have bought, they are going to make you pay a deposit to get water 
service there. It doen't matter if you are going to live there or someone 
else, they are still turning water service on to that property and they are 
not going to do it for free. When the new person who is going to live there 
finally does, it will be their responsibility.

Laurie