That's right around what I pay. But the $1200 includes me running the pool pump, charging 2 golf carts, and running a clothes drier a load or 2 a day. I also run fans when I am not home but only run a/c's in the bedroom at night.

Thanks for the help, I guess we are fortunate to pay less than you, for hydro, in Belize, than in S. Ontario. Any other suprises for utilities that I should be aware of ?? water ?

Exactly, when we lived in PG on the WASA water system, we averaged about 250 per month in water. At our new house, our village just installed a water system and our bill is about 100 per month so we went back to using our well. High sulphur in our well water but elec for pump is only about 25 per month. We are a family of 5 and we used to let our fans run all day, as I assumed they did not draw much current. Our elec bill was aroung 600 per month. I made everyone start turning them off if not in the room, and our bill dropped about 200 per month, we are around 350 to 400 per month. So all we use is lights, fans, a fridge, small chest freezer, and 2 washing machines. We use a butane dryer and in the rainy season we use about 20 gallons per month, about 140 now. It is not "cheap" to live here, but there are many other benefits which outweigh these to us.

Anyone have any current pictures of progress at Reef Village? If not pictures has anyone got info whether they have started on working on the lots in the 40's. We want to plan another trip down but don't want to bother Jeff P. all the time. Hope to meet some of you next trip down.

We are #47 and it looks like only stakes are in. We gave groundbreaking in February and nothing else since.

Go South, we have about an 800 sq. ft. condo just across the road from Reef Village. We leave one AC on while we're not there......set the temp at 78 just to keep the moisture down. The monthly electric bill when we are not there runs between $200 & $250 BZ. The cost per kilowatt is .49 cents.....very expensive.

Loansum, sounds like you have more than one AC unit in the condo, I have a central AC unit, so its all or nothing. Have you tried shutting the AC off altogether, and if so, what were the repercussions ?

Thanks for the info. We are lot 43 so probably in the same situation as you.

We've never turned the A/C off while we're not there. We have friends that do that and the musty smell that develops is just not worth it. All concrete construction makes things pretty tight and with no air flow the results can be very "stinky"!

You should be able to run the ac at 82 and keep the must out. Try it at a higher temp and see how that works. If people are not going in and out of the condo I have found this works quite well for condo owners that away. In fact I have a friend that runs her place at 84 when she is away - but I wonder if that isn't too high.

Stinky, musty condos are the result if you turn off the air conditioning.