"How much do Utilities Run?" Do you Know?

[John Rooster]

I have a mix of condos, townhomes and SFRs for rentals. A question I get from about one in four potential tenants is "How much do the Utilites run". I have no idea how much the utilities are on any of my properties. Fact is the local Utility where I live will not tell me what the electric/gas usage is/was without consent of the tenant, I expect that policy is the rule now. If I had an apartment building, with a bunch of similar units, I would make an effort to establish an answer for this question, but I do not. And most of the people that ask this question fall into the 'not very motivated, window shopping' category of potential renters, further demotivating me from researching the question. I suspect this question derives from some prosaic advice repeated hundreds of times on how to rent a home.

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I am curious if any of you landlords actually make an effort to answer this question.(?)