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Kavin Kuykendall Who pays water/sewer/garbage?
9 February 2019 | 7 replies

So I notice a lot of multifamily landlords I talk to seem to be paying for water/sewer/garbage. Is this normal? For example, a house is split into an upper and lower unit, each 2/1. The current landlord pays ~$190 a m...

Bill Bell Tenant Arbitrarily Paying Reduced Rent Per Claims of Excessive Electric Bills
5 October 2014 | 24 replies

I have an up/down rental where the upstairs tenant is responsible for the electric bill.    Over the past two months, the electric usage has been high and they have been arbitrarily deducting from the rent payment wha...

Vy Mai Don't understand the wording on the lease agreement
9 December 2015 | 5 replies

I received the standard tenant at will lease agreement from my real estate agent.  There's this part that I don't understand."The LANDLORD shall pay all charges for water and shall reasonably supply hot water and heat...

Richard Moreno adding laundry room to a 3 family in Providence
18 April 2018 | 9 replies

Hello BP!I have a 3 family in a nice area close to Brown University in Providence RI. Most rentals include laundry in there units or coin operated in basement, and as of now I have not done anything in regards to laun...

James Albrecht Installing second boiler for small 2-unit
28 April 2023 | 4 replies

I'm curious to get feedback on whether it would be worth the expense to install a 2nd boiler / hot water heater for a small duplex so the tenants can be responsible for their own gas usage. There is currently one mid-...

James Wilcox Reducing Gas Utility Bill
12 May 2017 | 8 replies

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...

Hoi L. Need advice on 5-units multi-family: rent, utilities, etc
5 March 2022 | 3 replies

Good day fellow members!  My family started the REI pathway late 2021 and has closed on 2 SFH, 1 pending SFH, and one 5-unit multi-family house.  Some details on the multi-unit located in Glenolden (SW suburb of Phila...

Lauren Simmers Rental Utilities- who should pay?
21 August 2019 | 18 replies

We are looking for deals, but the question comes: should tenants pay for utilities: mainly electric & heating oil or would you have the expenses calculated in the monthly rent? We bounced this back an forth but ne...

Adrian Vega Buying a triplex that landlord pays heat and hot water for tenant
13 January 2019 | 13 replies

Hello everyone,I am new to real estate and myself and father are new landlords also. We purchased a nice triplex and I am a bit concerned about having to pay for heat and hot water. At some point we will figure someth...

David Santore Oil Heat - Included In Utilities?
10 May 2018 | 2 replies

I'm trying to rent my 2nd floor in my owner/occupy, but I'm running into some resistance on my heat utilities as I have oil heat/hot water.Currently I am including water/sewage but tenant would pay electric/heat/hot w...