These are fragile and will continue to be as print usage is dropping hard.That being said, if that ever happens, rents are not going to go down, your property value might though.I'm still pondering this, because what you said about Montreal is crazy true.

Completely irrational, rude, offensive and inappropriate.  

Then (in most cases) you don't have to worry about the city getting in the way as the usage is either already okay, or grandfathered.Outside of town there are fewer restrictions, but different problems.  

It is common usage in Canadian English and I had, erroneously, assumed it was used in the U.S.A.

It's not in common enough usage to communicate anything meaningful to your prospects and clients.I'd suggest something that implies that you are the solution to their problem.  

Also, I believe we’re being taxed/assessed inappropriately due to this confusion.

Now about a 15 months later the same tenant says that the dishwasher isn't working and think the motor is burned out.My rental agreement says that the tenant is responsible for all normal usage repairs (clogged sinks, etc.). 

These have their own searchable values that can only help the SEO ranking of your website.Additionally, you want to sign up for Google Analytics to track page usage with your visitors, & Google Webmaster tools to submit url's for crawl requests, monitor any webpage errors (301/302/403/404), & most importantly, just how your site is performing with Google SEO.  

Your climate is not all that different from mine so I agree with @Mike Hanneman's suggestion to compare winter and summer water usage. 

They don't work good enough for every day usage.