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Frustration and confusion about water escrow

We sold my house about 3 months ago and just got the final check back from the Water escrow, but it didn't seem right. So I called the title company and they said that they simply pro-rate the cost based on days each person owned the house on the bill.

In all my years owning the house I've never paid more than $150 a quarter for water, but now my "pro-rated" portion of the water bill is $164 for 1 month. This to mean indicates that the new owners ran a ton of water for 2 months after buying the house because the pro-rated portion is 1/3rd the time but more than the cost of my normal water usage ever was.

I argued with the Title company about this and they said they don't do readings of the water meter on the day of sale, they simply take the total cost of the bill and divide it by the number of days then multiple that cost by the number of days owned.

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Is this normal or is my title company just being lazy? Second off is this legal? I'm essentially being billed for water I didn't use.

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edit: I know this may come off as being a cheapskate but the title company and realtor has been the biggest pain in my ass. They nickle and dimmed me over everything this sale (such as photos for the house, signs for an open house, brokerage fees, etc) and were overall a massive pain to get ahold of and work with. So I'm against giving them any more money then I absolutely have to.

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