I've been renting a house for awhile.. years actually.. and it has every problem you can think of.. mostly rats and bugs because theres holes and cracks in the doors and places in carpet where mice or rats been getting in and out. then guy raised my rent so i could get pest control but only does it like every 10 months. just say i found something better but the real question is this if i give my landlord a 30 day notice (im not on a lease) but the place im trying to move to might not actually be ready for maybe a week or two after the 30 day notice so in that time ill be homeless if i decided to move out after the 30 days..

I am waiting until end of 2019 to sell it because that is when the lease ends and it will be tenant free making it more valuable from my understanding.

Lease may be required to support it.

Also, if you have tenants in place, you'll have to wait until your leases roll over to implement this charge; however, I would think you'd have to do the same if you sub-metered and wanted them to start paying for their own water.

However, we had 30 day minimums and did lease agreements, as well as guaranteed tenants so it was a much different model.

And raising the rent each year on the same leaseholder is motivation for them to move out when the lease is up!  

We normally get it as a credit, unless it’s held by a 3rd party(pm).You can consult the lease agreement for each tenant, if the LL says someone only paid some or non, you need to get estoppel forms signed by both the LL and tenant, or just risk owning the tenant money they never really paid the LL.

It also keeps track of all tenants applications, lease agreements, maintenance requests, etc

I am still heavily involved in building/yard maintenance and turnover work,  but I leave all the stuff with legal risk (advertising, showing, leasing, enforcement, rent collection, deposits, etc)  to the PM.  

Not really a big deal when you consider how much cleaner this approach is.