All Forum Posts by: Ginny Townsend

Thanks, everyone! I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts and suggestions. I'll reach out to them and see what happens.

Hi @Ben Howard. Thanks for the response! 

I’m embarrassed to admit I didn’t know to look for the True Up charges until this year. I just went by what our monthly bill was. In previous years, our True Up was never more than $50 or so. 

And as far as asking for those fund now with that statement in hand, I’m wondering if this is appropriate to do after they’ve moved out or not. It sounds like you think yes?

Thanks!

Hi BP Nation!

We have a furnished short-term rental in Sacramento and since we have a pool/hot-tub, we've included in our lease that we would cover up to $xx on our utilities bill, but over that we would pass the charges on to them. All of our tenants have agreed to that.

But an issue that we ran into for this first time is Northern California's utilities company bills electricity annually because we have solar... After our last tenant's moved out (and had been out for a little over a month) we received a MASSIVE bill showing they went over the limit by about $1,000 all in all during their 6 months at our place.

I'm struggling with how to handle this. Since they've already moved out, i know I won't have leverage. Is it even appropriate to ask our previous tenants to cover at least some of this cost?

It was a lesson learned...

Thanks in advance for any insights!

Ginny

Thanks, @Manolo D.! I know it was a vague question. We're just starting to do our research. Thanks for the thoughtful response.

Hi BP!

We have about 5 acres of land for sale in Victorville, CA (northern Los Angeles county).

It's well-suited to be sub-divided but that would obviously be a sizable expense. Has anyone here sold land that could be sub-divided but isn't yet? Would you recommend going through with the subdivision before we sell?

Thanks in advance.