The only actual cost you have associated with utilities will  be very minimal power usage. 

I don't want them to see me driving a fancy car because I don't want them to think us agents are overpaid.

They get the bills from the utility, create professional looking utility bills based on the usage, and then send those bills to my property manager.  

It likely does not distinguish between single story and multi-story, for example, or between usage: owner-occupied, rental, mult-family residential, multi-family commercial, etc.

@Jeff RabinowitzI had started to post a similar response, but then figured that coming from a non-Christian, it may have been interpreted as inappropriate ... perhaps not ;-)

Must be a Canadian thing - there is no place in the United States where it would not be legal to either directly meter from the utility or submeter a tenants usage.

I have it in the lease that if at any point water usage goes above 5Ccf person, per quarter, the tenant will be charged. 

These are the buildings newbies usually buy not realizing why they are so cheap.You say tenants do not abuse utilities but if they had their own meter the usage of each person would go down.

Lenders can do soft credit pulls without permission to see about where you are at with your credit and debt usage.

Originally posted by:Hey @Dave Foster, can you clarify....IF the Seller uses his primary residence exclusion, is he limited to 25% of the total amount of the sales price to account for his 1/4 usage as a primary residence, or can he take ALL of the $250K/$500K if married, as the whole property being his primary residence?