Real Estate Agent · Plano, TX · Member since 2015 · 734 posts · 511 votes
For all you MF owners out there, here's a quick tip I learned today from a veteran PM:
Have your maint. guy (or yourself if you're the maint. guy) write down the water meter reading twice a week and track it over time.
This will allow you to identify a hidden leak fast and get in-front of it before it gets too bad.
For example If the week over week consumption jumps 50% on day and nothing special should have caused it then you need to start looking into it.
If you wait on the bills to come they are usually 5-7 weeks after a potential leak started (time ti takes the city to calculate the consumption, issue a bill, send it, the PM to look at it etc.) by then, you could be facig a bigger problem not to mention at least 5 weeks worth of over consumption.
Johnson Creek, WI · Member since 2015 · 42 posts · 11 votes
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Another option is a secondary water meter that can be monitored via the internet. EKM push communications has a system that can be installed after the city water meter. You never know if the fix it guy is going to forget about that when he has a ton of tenants asking for this or that throughout the day.