‘The prices are so much more’: how apartment dwellers get locked into bad power deals

Reuben Acciano wasn’t told he’d have to sign up to his new Melbourne apartment’s embedded power and gas network until the day he signed the lease. Photograph: Christopher Hopkins/The Guardian

Reuben Acciano wasn’t told he’d have to sign up to his new apartment’s embedded power and gas network until the day he signed the lease.

“I was really angry … it wasn’t in the ‘for lease’ ads, [it wasn’t] mentioned by the manager during the walk through,” the Melbourne renter says.