Charging Tenants for Private Utilities

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We recently purchased a small mobile home park in New York State. We are on private well and septic. Our contractor had mentioned that we could install meters on each of the pads and have tenants pay for the water. I've done some research and am not sure how exactly that would work logistically. Is this even legally possible? I was under the assumption that we'd be responsible for private utilities. How would we determine the proper rate to charge? 

[Frank Rolfe]

You need to talk to your state's manufactured housing association (MHA). This is a legal question and the last thing you want to do is break the law and get sued because your contractor wants to make money installing meters for you!

Most state utility billing questions are black and white -- there's no personal interpretation needed. Get the facts before you do anything.