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Hi Everyone!We recently closed on two 4 bed/4 bath townhomes in a college town and will be dropping our management company to begin self managing.We are considering keeping all utilities in our name and billing our te...
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hey everyone hope all is well. Based on you all's experience in a house hacking situation ( I am going to be living in the basement unit approx 550 sq ft and renting the upstairs of a sfh 3/2 approx 1,400 sq ft) what ...
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In Ontario (Ottawa) people with student rentals, do you include all utilities (heat / hydro / water) in the cost for students, or do the students pay the utilities on their own (split the costs between them)?Thanks, Andy
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Tenant does not want to pay utility charges till statement shows her date of occupancy. The utility statement has meter readings backdated 1.5 mths as it comes from the power company. Utility statements are on a rolli...
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If the lease that your tenant signed states that they are responsible for the electric and gas utilities does the start date for those utility responsibilities coincide with the start date of the lease? If it does and...
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curious how you handle utility bill backs. specifically we have a 6 unit that has water and sewer as the largest expense (and increasing significantly) so our thought was instead of increasing rent we would begin a b...
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So i have two duplexes that are mastered metered(2 meters) so i'm unable to individually track each tenants usage. BUT i have spoken to a company that does sub metering so I'm in the process of getting that installed....
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In my limited experience as a landlord, this is the first time I've come across this situation, so I was hoping to get some feedback/advice from other landlords...
One of my tenants just called my property manager to...
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Hi Everyone, I just bought my first property in Albany Park, Chicago and received my first gas bill - super high! I wanted to ask how other landlords /if other landlords split the gas bill among all the tenants if the...
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Anyone have any suggestions on helping reduce our natural gas utility bill. We use gas for hot water heaters and heating our units in our 10 plex. We are considering adding more insulation and switching tenants over f...