Glendale
Utility Submetering and Billing
Recover More of Your Utility Costs
Glendale Utility Submetering and Billing
for Water, Electric and Gas
Oates Energy provides custom tailored Glendale utility submetering and billing services for Water, Electric and Gas. Most of our competitors business models are designed to offer a fixed set of services to all of their clients. They prefer to keep everything the same and provide a pre-packaged group of services to as many clients as possible. While this approach is less complicated for the provider, it does not always addresses the unique needs and preferences of different property managers.
This problem does not exist for property managers who choose Oates Energy. We understand that property managers have specific preferences on how they bill their residents and tenants to recover utility costs. And we created an entire suite of utility submetering and billing services that can be selected or not selected and then tailored to how each property manager would like those services to be provided. Below is a closer look at how we support our key markets.
Utility Submetering & Billing
for Multifamily Communities
If you manage multifamily communities, you are undoubtedly very familiar with the importance of your community’s NOI, and are very aware of how much your NOI can be effected by utility costs. Oates Energy specializes in helping property managers of multifamily communities improve and maintain a strong NOI by maximizing their recovery of utility costs.
We customize our Glendale utility submetering and billing solutions to the needs of each community and the preferences of their management teams. We deliver our services exactly how our client’s need us to. Everything from our online services and full service U.S. based billing customer care for residents to which utilities and monthly charges and fees we bill residents for can all be adjusted to your unique needs and preferences. Contact us to discuss a customized utility submetering and billing solution designed to recover more of your utility costs!
Utility Submetering & Billing
for Condominium Communities
Condominium property managers partner with us to encourage conservation and keep HOA fees as low as possible. In cases where the condominium community or building does not have water submeters, the costs for water are commonly recovered through condo or HOA fees. But this does not fairly account for actual usage and leads to excessive usage and higher over all costs.
If a condo community does not have water submeters, Oates Energy can help in a couple of different ways. The first option is to implement a RUBS formula that recovers the costs for water based on a number of factors that you define. The second more accurate way of recovering water costs is a remote-read water submetering system that tracks actual usage allowing for the community to accurately recover water and sewer costs. Either of these options encourage conservation and separate utility costs from monthly condo or HOA fees.
Utility Submetering & Billing
for Mobile Home Parks
Mobile home parks almost always choose us over other Glendale utility submetering and billing options because of our ability to completely customize billing solutions and deliver only the services a park needs.
We partner with parks who need to update their existing utility submetering systems and provide meter reading services when necessary. And all of our billing services can also be completely customized. Choose only the services you want and need and then tell us how you would like them to be provided. We design customized utility submetering and billing solutions or just utility billing solutions for almost any requirement. Contact us for a customized solution designed to recover more of your park’s utility costs!
Utility Submetering & Billing
for Commercial Properties
Commercial tenants have all levels of needs when it comes to utility requirements. Tenants can span across all industries and range in size from small contractors to large grocery stores and can even have special billing arrangements. These factors are why so many commercial property managers have chosen Oates Energy for Glendale utility submetering and billing.
We specialize in customized solutions designed to recover utility costs accurately and in a timely manner. This makes Oates Energy a great fit for any commercial property because we can adjust and customize our utility submetering and billing solutions to just about any requirement. Contact us to discuss a customized utility submetering and or billing solution for your commercial property.
Submetering Installation
for New Construction
In addition to our utility submetering and billing solutions, we also provide utility submetering system installation. We have been partnering with general contractors on new multifamily construction projects all over the country for over 20 years. Our installation technicians are extremely versed in today’s advanced submetering equipment and are versed in understanding and installing to local codes. If you are planning a new project that calls for utility submetering installation and need a reliable go-to partner for current and future projects, we would be pleased to speak with you more about our capabilities.
Utility Submetering Laws and Regulations in Arizona
*The Arizona Corporation Commission’s Rules on Water requires all water delivered by a regulated water utility to be billed on the basis of metered volume sales. Arizona’s regulations allow the utility to provide a fixed charge schedule for temporary service where water use can be readily estimated; public and private fire protection; water used for street sprinkling and sewer flushing under certain circumstances; and other fixed charge schedules approved by the commission (Ariz. Admin. Code, title 14, art. 4 §R14-2-408).
*A landlord may charge separately for gas, water, wastewater, solid waste removal or electricity by installing a submetering system or by allocating the charges separately through a ratio utility billing system.
If a landlord charges separately for a utility, the landlord may recover the charges imposed on the landlord by the utility provider plus an administrative fee for the landlord for actual administrative costs only. The landlord shall not impose any additional charges. The rental agreement shall contain a disclosure that lists the utility services that are charged separately and shall specify the amount of any administrative fee that is associated with submetering or the use of a ratio utility billing system (Ariz. Rev. Stat. Ann. §33-1314.01).
*The landlord may charge an administrative fee for the landlord’s actual administrative costs. Any monthly administrative fee shall not exceed the greater of the landlord’s actual administrative costs or 10 percent of the monthly charges by the utility provider in the aggregate to the landlord. The landlord shall not impose any other additional charges.
If the landlord arranges for utility billings to be handled by a third party, the utility billings shall instead include the actual and reasonable cost charged by the third party for the service. Those third party charges shall not exceed ten per cent of the monthly charges by the utility provider for that utility in the aggregate to the landlord. For the purposes of this paragraph, “administrative costs” includes the direct actual costs to the landlord of billing for utilities, including the cost of staff time to calculate and mail the bills, postage and stationery (Ariz. Rev. Stat. Ann. §33-2107).
*Information courtesy of:
The National Conference of State Legislatures
WestlawNext, 2016.
Arizona Utility Billing and Submetering Links
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