I would guess if we didn't use dollars to measure economic growth but had a way to measure real production and consumption it would be much different story.  

It is difficult to charge tenants for their own separate utilities if you can't measure their consumption individually.

"MARIJUANA AND OTHER DRUGS: Tenant shall not be permitted to, and shall not permit any family, visiting friends, dependents, guests, licensees or invitees of Tenant to grow, produce, possess, consume, use, smoke, or ingest any marijuana, cannibas or any products or ingestibles containing marijuana or cannibas in any location in, on or about the Premises; the foregoing prohibition to be absolute and without exception and shall include any growing, production, possession, use or consumption pursuant to any medical use or medical prescription, or any medical, retail or recreational marijuana activities that may otherwise be permitted under any local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations now or hereafter in effect.

 @Drew Sygit Maybe a more granular pricing based on the service consumption?

Same goes for a 2/1 - 2 beds/1 bath - obviously a smaller size and thus less water consumption and so you don't need a big water heater.

Water will vary based on consumption.

Consumption rate is about 5,000 acres/year.

My plan for the increased energy consumption (gas in this case) would be to have the renter pay extra if they want to utilize it.

The "average" U.S. household energy consumption TODAY, with all that nasty stinky "eewh, David" NG appliances going; is about 893 kWh per month. 

Most of my clients have the similar background that they have a Primary Active Income, often a business venture of some kind, and have built a portfolio over xyz-time, but have ran into "a-wall" where either it's turned from investment to time-consumption, operational issues, uncertainty of next steps, or scaling seems a difficult or fearful notion.