Cindy Chan
Billing Tenants for Shared Utilities
I am renting out a duplex with 1 water meter and 1 boiler. Currently I am covering water and heat for both tenants but would like to bill the tenants for their separate usage. Can someone give me some tips on how you ...
Bilal Hussain
How to determine Utilities Expenses
Hi,
If i'm looking to buy a property and rehab it, how do I determine what I will be charging the tenant for utilities and what I will provide?
Is there a way to determine this by the type of property? For exampl...
Mariusz Bojarczuk
Can I accept utilities payment
Dear Fellow Landlords,I have a lodger in my house, who received a notice to quit before Massachusetts announced state of emergency. He knows I cannot proceed with eviction and behaves as if it is his house. I did ask ...
Bryan Igboke
Househacking Single Family Utilities Methods
Hello BiggerPockets Family!I am a new real estate investor in California looking to do my first deal in the next year. My goal is to househack a single family home by finding one with a guest house and living in that ...
Sam Lofton
Security Deposit for Unpaid Utilities
Hello,
I'm a real estate investor in Columbus, Ohio. Some of my tenants' lease is about to expire and I am not resigning with them. They have an outstanding water bill and their previous landlord had to take the...
Walter Correia
Shares utilities in a dulex
Would you ever buy a two family property that has a shared electric system. Is this a bad idea? Would you add new meters so that each unit has one?
What are the pros and CQ cons?
Roger Harrold
Best way to utilize equity?
Hello, I am new to RE and have a question that I need answered. I have some equity in my home and am looking for the best way to utilize my money. I currently plan on remodeling the kitchen and bath then renting prope...
Ryan Dusel
Tenant Not Setting Up Utilities
I work for a property management company with about ~350 residential and commercial units in Norfolk, NE. We have a select few tenants who refuse to set up the utilities in their name, but have been reimbursing us for...
Lloyd Stein
How do you estimate utilities?
So I've built this excel document that does rough calculations of 2% test, Cap Rate and CoCROI and while I'm pulling most of the numbers from sources I can find (realizing they are not exact, but in the ballpark), the...
Ayne C.
Utilities finder for a zipcode
Is there a website that tells me who services an address, for electricity and water?
My inherited tenants left in bad terms so I can't ask them.