In general I believe people should be made aware and incentivized for their own consumption.

But if there is a small payment due to the electric utility each month, then let the tenants collect the occasional bonus - rather than you being stuck with a large bill due to (wasteful) utility consumption.

It is alcohol based and pigmented white and we sealed the floors and existing studs that were showing.

Anything else is like much of medical insurance, in which costs are hidden and those consuming services don't have an incentive to ask about prices and limit their consumption.

Don't want to get off topic, but drilling down further in the chapter of opportunity costs (OC) is the marginal propensity of consumption (MPC), which is what my example was with $10.00 water.  

Most people like alcohol.

(Spike Lee would be happy I used that)Split the shared utilities so each unit only has to pay for their own consumption, and have a house meter service set up for anything that has common usage.

One place the alcoholic owner hadn't cut the grass in 5 years. 

He is an alcoholic and very abusive.I already lost an awesome property manager as he didn't want to deal with the tenant.

It's because he was overserved alcohol by Carrabbas and there's a lawsuit and I can personally be getting anywhere from a $500,000-$1,000,000 settlement.