Property receives a monthly royalty check for gas and oil rights.

They are a boom and bust oil area that has been in a bust since about 2014 but it will eventually turn again.

Your other option is have a Landlord Meter installed but that could get pretty expensive.Your only other option is to ask to see her electric bill then figure out roughly what the washer and dryer electric would cost should be able to roughly estimate it, then reduce her rent by that number.My property had this issue where the oil furnace was running on one units electric but i was lucky i had a separate elextrical box just had to get a meter installed, then have those items moved over to the new electrical box it only cost me $100 to get done. 

There could be exceptions that the title co doesn't cover (eg. oil/mineral leases from 15 years ago) that could come back to bite you when you go to sell the property again.  

I increased my income at the same time by taking risk in my profession, I am a Safety Consultant for the Oil & Gas and Industrial Construction Industries.

Now it is a well oiled machine and all operations are scientific not guesstimates.

Hardest thing about our market is the drastic swings it takes following the oil & gas and coal industries.

With extended oil price wars your domestic buyers will lose buying power as CAD gets devalued.

I'd add "water" of course because we can live without oil but we can't live without water. 

One guy works 2 weeks on - 2 weeks off in the Alaskan oil fiends—and for all I know he is still busy and working.