My landlady knows I definitely do not want a smart meter and I asked her to opt-out. I showed her a lot of data regarding the health impacts and asked her to pay half the fees if it came to that. She quoted an "independent" source that said smart meters emit the same amount of radiation as a cell phone and said she had based her decision to not opt-out for herself on that. I showed her evidence that her independent source was industry hiding behind a university. She didn't have time to look at that. She's one of those run of the mill power-tripping landladies who denies there is a rat and biting rat mite problem and then raises the rent as a response to my proposing a more transparent way of figuring the shared utilities.
To Wendy and all the folks who have not paid the opt-out fee, please let us know what happens in month two and three. Did the opt-out fee get paid instead of your utilities? Or did the opt-out fee remain on the bottom of your bill with no due date?