Before you can sign up for a utility service – water, gas or any other– you typically have to leave a deposit, especially if you don’t have a positive history with any other utility. The idea is that the deposit will cover the utility in case you can’t pay your bill for whatever reason. It’s meant to act in the place of trust. Once you build up enough of a positive history with a utility company, the deposit becomes less or it becomes unnecessary altogether. It’s when you have to deactivate your utility service and the company returns your utility deposits to you that things get tricky.

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