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Joe Davis Who pays your Utilities
15 August 2018 | 14 replies

Curious to hear from other landlords on whom pays the utilities (gas/electric/water etc) in your properties. Do you write this into your lease, or do you cover this for them.

David Florist ​Living with your Tenant - Utilities
8 December 2015 | 4 replies

I recently bought a 3bd 2bth house with a pool and will be having people I personally know living with me. We are all easy going and I don't think it will be an issue (I hope).I have a few questions about leasing and ...

Jenny Bayless Denver Renting by the Room
7 November 2016 | 6 replies

Hi Denver Landlords,With Denver's cost of living rapidly increasing and a lot of younger, more transient people moving into the city, I wanted to inquire regarding the thought of renting out a home by the room (separa...

Jeremy Tran HOA Attempting to charge a "Leasing fee"
4 June 2024 | 5 replies

Hi Everyone,
I purchased a new-build townhome by Meritage Homes in 2021, during the initial phase of the community development. This is my first HOA property. At that time, there were no rental caps, and the HOA docu...

Watson Hilaire Separating Common Water
3 June 2019 | 9 replies

Hey BP,I keep passing on multi properties that have common water because I don't want to pay for any utilities. Now I am wondering if these are missed opportunities. Can anyone tell me ways to separate common water an...

Leigh Corcoran What utility’s do landlords pay for in Cincinnati rentals
12 May 2020 | 4 replies

I’m looking at a duplex in Cincinnati & crunching some number . What utilities am I responsible for ?

Jason Sales Duplex Well Water system Conflict
14 March 2017 | 3 replies

Howdy folks,I recently purchased a Duplex , and last week one of the tenants had their Light bill cut off and they other unit was left without water. We discovered that the unit powers the pump for the well system for...

Faustin Hoover Utilities and maintenance
4 December 2023 | 9 replies

Two questions. If you were looking at a multi family and the current owner pays utilities how do you go about dividing them at least electric? Also if 2 units have a boardwalk to get out of their unit and the other ha...

Matt Splittgerber Separating Electric in MF
23 April 2023 | 6 replies

I'm looking at an apartment complex that I really like.  The only issue I see is that everyone is on one electric meter and LL pays all electric.  There are 33 units which is far too many.  It is priced accordingly, b...

Joe Cicero Redistributing shared utilities
28 March 2019 | 3 replies

Hi all,I bought a 3-unit in Upstate NY back in Oct. I have battled with the local utility company every month since, as they had wrongly assigned meters and tenant payments have been sitting in limbo. This has been es...