Any cost effective solutions out there for how I can fairly and legally get the tenants to pay for their own heat?

I am always just skeptical when someone who has obvious financial interests in whipping up fear and uncertainty spends such a great amount of bandwidth coming into a forum whipping up fear and uncertainty.Maybe some people actually need to shell out a bunch of dough to "experts" to put a "compliance monitoring program" in place or to have them review the legalese of their websites, and maybe it makes them feel better knowing that even if nobody has ever been prosecuted for the things they are paying money to address, it is still a good investment.  

Also, down the road (When you decide that running your own books is no longer fun and your time is more valuable than doing data entry and month end reconciliations) your system would need to be taught to an employee or outside accountant... it's a custom solution, which means that automatically the learning curve is going to be much worse for that person vs.

In monitor mode for now. 

Solution: Get a better operator!  

What's the solution to this?

It's "sketch", as the kids say.A better solution would be to build a lead generation system with your WP skills.

You can offer all kinds of creative solutions to your problem, but they will only work if he thinks it is is problem.  

So protect yourself and monitor where your money is going out.

What would be the best solution to this problem?