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Dave Silva thoughts on including utilities in single family home
3 January 2018 | 8 replies

The property is in Eastern NC. Summers are hot winters are mild.  I installed a  ductless minisplits HVAC system in my house and I CANNOT get my electric bill over $150 year round.  We keep it very comfortable.  Peopl...

Travis Hatch Single Family House Hacking: what do do with utilities
8 December 2019 | 3 replies

Hey everyone.  I'm currently finishing setting up a single family home house hack.  I'm living in the basement, and renting out the 1st floor rooms individually.  I was wondering, for others in my situation, how do yo...

Account Closed Single Meter Duplex-- Utility costs getting out of hand??
20 June 2022 | 10 replies

Hi all. Last year I purchased my first rental (BRRRR) for $115,000, and put around $30,000 into repairs. It appraised for last month at $220,000 in which I was able to do a cash-out refi and pull almost $30k back out....

Alex Buscaglia Splitting utilities in a single-family home in Chicago
31 December 2016 | 4 replies

Hey Everyone,I've been looking to get involved in duplexes in Chicago for the past few months.  After putting my first offer down last week and being passed up because of too low of a down payment, I've started to loo...

Dzenan Catic How to handle utilities in a single family rental
23 October 2022 | 29 replies

Hello, 

I am renting out my first property. It is a single family home. How do I go about utilities? Do you have the tenant put the water, gas, electricity, trash in their name and show you proof that they are payi...

Account Closed Utilities to be split in single family home/duplex
29 September 2017 | 3 replies

My boyfriend and I just closed on a single family home that is only a stairwell away from being a duplex.  We are going to rent the upstairs out and house hack the second level.  We do not know if we should include po...

Kate Jones Solutions for utility payments
1 June 2022 | 3 replies

Hey BP.
I am currently looking to move from NY to Louisville. I read on the landlord-tenant laws that the landlord is in charge of paying the utilities. That is around 350 a month. From my understanding, some tenants...

Mike Ojo How To Setup Tenant Utility account for Single Family home
15 February 2019 | 3 replies

Is it even possible? The utility accounts are newly setup in our name upon purchasing the property. Do we have to set it up in the tenants name instead? or how does this typically work? please advise. Thank you.

Shawn Hochhausen Splitting utilities on a singly family home with basement suite
22 October 2017 | 1 reply

Hey everyone,  I am in the process of building a suited single family home as a rental property and am stumped on the best way to split utilities.  My biggest issue is how to split the electric bill on the water heate...

Shawn Hochhausen Splitting utilities on a singly family home with basement suite
23 October 2017 | 1 reply

Hey everyone,  I am in the process of building a suited single family home as a rental property and am stumped on the best way to split utilities.  My biggest issue is how to split the electric bill on the water heate...