Also if you pay any consumption related utilities you can justify some increase by occupancy level but it is better to just have them pay utilities.

On a lighter note in Amsterdam they tolerate the natural growing of up to 5 marijuana plants as long as it's for personal consumption.

Because these are ever changing due to consumption, they can be tricky to figure out.

I don’t mind the idea of a consumption based tax instead of an income tax.

Obviously, there's real estate taxes and maintenance, so maybe its a bond that pays half my rent.I consider my home improvements to my primary residence 'consumption' as well.

I have explored creating a non-profit to assist with tax abatements and consumption of grants but found that I would have to convene a board of directors composed of 3 members and not stand to gain personal profits.

Appliances, heating equipment, water heater, I'd check all of it for proper power consumption.

Here in my City it is easy to separately meter small multifamily properties and require the tenant to be responsible for the water bills.If I had to be responsible for the water bill as a landlord I like the idea mentioned above of paying the minimum water bill and billing anything above back to the tenants; it still incentivises them to keep an eye on their consumption.

Jonathan, I'm not sure this fits exactly what you are asking but I thought this might be helpful.Raising Money in an LLC or Joint Partnership-Securities LawFull disclosure--I'm a client of Mat's law firm but this article is on a public blog and meant for general consumption and is not specific to clients of their firm.There's a podcast that I've listened to on this subject (not BP Podcast), if I can find it I'll post it here too.  

The average rate of raw land consumption exceeds 4,000 acres per year.