How does one know who will pay for utilities?

[Nicholas Negreiros]

I’m just starting my real estate journey and I have this burning question that I can’t figure out.

How do you know or decide whether you or the tenant will pay the utilities (water/sewage, electricity, gas, garbage)? Does each landlord decide independently depending on convenience or cash flow, or are you supposed to follow what everyone else does in your market? Or maybe some other factor that I haven’t thought of?