So we just moved from Fort Polk, Louisiana where our housing was military managed, and our utilities weren’t our problem. We moved to Clarksville, TN where military housing is low-grade. We chose to live off-post in order to find a nicer place to stay, and avoid the hassle of living on a large post like Fort Campbell.

We lucked out. My wife (Stephanie) and I found a beautiful 1-story, 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom home with a MASSIVE back yard, all for $615.00 per month. Too good to be true, that’s what it seemed like. Turns out, it is.

Around the same time that we moved, for various reasons, the price of electricity went up, a lot. So we took steps to drop our electricity bill to something reasonable. We were looking at bills in excess of $150.00 per month, which we’ve recently managed to drop to $120.00 using various insulators, energy-efficient bulbs, motion-sensitive light switches, etc. Then we got our first monthly water bill. It was $95.00, and the following month’s bill was an excess of $105.00. After getting haggled repetitively by Clarksville Water & Gas, Stephanie finally gave up and explained the whole scenario. So wearing ACUs and all, I marched up to the local branch and waited in line for an hour. When I was finally able to be seen, I explained that I was taking all available legal action against them since they refuse to reimburse us for the overcharge.

Here’s the thing. When the first bill came in, we had a plumber from our realty company come and check the house for leaks. He found nothing. The second high bill of over $105.00 we had him come out again, and again, he checked everything +, and found no leaks… or any reason why our bill should be that high.

Our bill states we chewed through 10,000 gallons. TEN THOUSAND gallons is hard for a family of 5 to go through. I don’t wash my car, rarely use the dishwasher. We don’t have an ice-maker or water dispenser. We don’t own a pool, and we don’t water our grass etc. There is absolutely NO reason for being overcharged like this.  So I am currently in contact with the BBB, and I will be in contact with the SEC and IRS momentarily. I will not be taken advantage of. You should feel the same.

Not to mention, this guy is using WordPress, and probably other free Open Source Software (some of which has strict non-profit licenses) which by the way is FREE. So why in the heck is this “get up” doing this? Probably the same reason why phishers and social engineers do what they do. Making easy money off of people who simply aren’t familiar with these things. Anyone can run a blog, but the average joe on the street couldn’t tell you how to set up one. But it might take half an hour, and they’ve got enough know-how to install WordPress. This is just pathetic.

For those of you who didn’t know, I offer free (for life) hosting to any artist, non-profit organization, church, artgroup, and probably any other group or individual who exhibits a growing desire to attain skill and knowledge and improve their skills as a designer, composer, and/or artist, or group.

I will even set up your blog/forum/etc for you, and help you figure out a design. I request a mere text link in return, but it isn’t required.

If you question this offer, please refer to any of the people under the ihost category on the right sidebar. Also, please visit The Luminarium’s community for even more references.

If you challenge my knowledge, my integrity, my quality of person, or other of my traits, you will meet a very large, very high, very solid brick wall.

You offer a good, decent, affordable, valid, user-friendly, and helpful service, I’ll support it, promote it, and maybe even use it myself. You offer me crap, bs wrapped in tp with ribbon in it, you’ll get a flaming bag of crap on your porch. Just a friendly warning.

And NO I did not include the link to this @$$#*!3s website because I don’t want to make anyone else suffer. You get the general idea ( and the URL) from the screenshot above.