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Sean Trily
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Meter reading in mobile home park

Sean Trily
  • Portland, OR
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2 questions here:

My family owns a park which is in a pretty remote location. Because of this the city electric charges us one large bill for our meter and we are responsible for reading homeowners original meters, charging them, and getting our money back. I am looking for someway to make this less time consuming for our office. So one, does anyone have experience working with and convincing city power companies to come and read individual meters? or two, does anyone have any insight into automatic meter readers so at the very least we don't have to send someone out to check each meter manually?

Thanks

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Joseph Catalano
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Lewiston, NY
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Joseph Catalano
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Lewiston, NY
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I fully agree with Metron.  If you use Rent Manager you can actually bill the residents through Rent Manager, which make is much easier.  One great thing about Metron is that I believe it does a reading every 5 minutes, this help with any leak detection issues.
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