<prompt> Human: I rent an apartment and my electricity bill has been 3x the cost and usage of multiple neighbors. Me and my roommate have investigated all of our appliances, electronics, sealing around doors, programmed a schedule in the thermostat for when we arent home, set a modest temperature etc. Everything comes out to a normal electrical use if not frugal. Multiple neighbors have described to us that they leave their air conditioning on 24 hours a day and a much lower temperature for their dogs, dont receive government discounts, and still pay 3x less than us.Our central air unit takes 4 hours to cool the apartment by 15 degrees and the bill sky rocketed during the heat wave. So the suspected culprit is a defective central air system. Weve called maintenance about the air conditioning before but they arent qualified to do anything other than change thermostat batteries and put in new filters. Management says they have an AC technician coming out to check problem units sometime in the near future but the longer it takes them to get him to come fix our unit, the more money is flying out of our pockets.My question is, who is going to pay us back for our insane electricity bills weve been paying for 3 months? Its definitely not going to be the electricity provider. Is it our apartment managements responsibility? Not to mention the money Ive spent turning our apartment energy efficient as a troubleshoot. I dont see how the energy use was our fault, but also dont know who IS supposed to pay for it. How do I not lose close to 1,000 of my own money on all this?  <response>: No one will pay you back. 