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Water usage and billing tenants
Does anyone know the best way to charge tenants, at a triplex on one water bill? I have a tenant with five kids. I live in another unit and another guy lives in the other. That's a total of 8 occupants using the water. It wouldn't be fair to split it 3 ways, equally. I was thinking usage. That brings me to my next question. Does anyone know an affordable way to measure their usage? I do not want to charge a fee because I have to count that as income. Thank you in advance.
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Meter cost-
water 62.00 indoor/132.00 outdoor
Gas 197.00 each
You can read the meter and do billing yourself and save the 1100-1300 transmitter cost plus the billing service fee.