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Utility management

Recover every dollar you’re already spending.

Submetering, RUBS allocation, billing, and vacant-unit cost recovery — calculated correctly, billed on time, and defensible if a resident asks how you got the number.

UTILITY BILLING · AUGUST · 11 PROPERTIES $38,410 RECOVERED
BILLED
$38,410
across 1,240 units
RECOVERY RATE
94%
of recoverable spend
VACANT COST
$2,180
absorbed, down 41%
DISPUTES
3
resolved with the calculation

The line item nobody has time to chase.

Utility recovery is small money per unit and real money per portfolio. It only works if it happens every month, without anyone remembering to do it.

Submetered or allocated — both handled.

Read submeters directly where you have them. Where you do not, RUBS allocation runs on occupancy, square footage, or your own formula, with the method disclosed on the resident’s bill.

Water · submetered read 1,842 GAL
Sewer · allocated, occupancy-based $28.40
Common area electric · RUBS $14.10
Trash · flat per unit $18.00

Billed with the lease, not after it.

Utility charges post to the resident ledger alongside rent, so there is one balance, one due date, and one payment. No separate utility invoice for a resident to ignore.

September rent $1,845.00
Utilities · August usage $60.50
Total due Sept 1 $1,905.50
Autopay scheduled AUG 30

Vacant cost, caught early.

When a unit turns, the agent watches consumption. A vacant unit running water or heat at occupied levels is a leak or an open window — flagged the same week, not on next quarter’s bill.

Unit 12 · vacant, water usage normal FLAGGED
Unit 4B · vacant, minimal usage NORMAL
Unit 7 · turned Aug 12, billing paused HANDLED
Estimated recovery this quarter $4,100

Bring one utility invoice.

We’ll show you what recovery looks like across the portfolio.