Scottsdale
Utility Submetering and Billing
Helping Multifamily Communities
Recover More of Their Utility Costs
Customized Water, Electric and Gas
Utility Submetering and Billing Solutions
Oates Energy partners with multifamily communities and commercial multi-unit properties by providing customizable Scottsdale utility submetering and billing solutions for Water, Electric and Gas. We provide a detailed suite of services that can be tailored to the unique needs of each client.
We were founded by industry experts with years of experience in serving the unique utility billing and submetering requirements of multifamily properties. Contact us to discuss a customized suite of services designed to recover more of your utility costs. The following is a closer look at how we serve our key markets.
Multifamily Utility Submetering & Billing
Multifamily communities represent the largest segment of our client base. This is because we have built our company around the idea of providing truly customizable Scottsdale utility submetering and billing solutions for multifamily communities. We install new submetering systems and repair or upgrade existing submetering systems. We can submeter an individual utility or multiple utilities and bill those utility costs to residents using your billing policies. We even provide billing services for other charges such as cable TV, phone and Internet, even garage and pet fees. And our U.S. based billing customer care can help residents with all billing questions and concerns using your policies and guidelines.
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
We are often a great fit for condo communities who need a flexible Scottsdale utility submetering and billing provider to recover more of their utility costs to help them keep their condo or HOA fees as low as possible. Condo communities and their respective HOAs often have very specific needs and preferences about how they prefer to allocate utility costs among residents, and the method in which they bill their residents to recover those costs.
We were built to accommodate special needs and are able to provide only the services a condo community needs and adjust those services and how they are provided to their exact needs and preferences. Contact us to learn more about how our services can recover more of your utility costs and help you operate more efficiently.
Utility Submetering & Billing
for Mobile Home Parks
Our Scottsdale utility submetering and billing solutions are a great fit for mobile home parks because these types of communities often have complex requirements. It is common for some resident’s to have submeters while others do not. Older direct read meters are also common, and many parks have no utility meters at all.
We were built to help mobile home parks with these types of needs. Our suite of submetering installation and billing services is fully customizable and can be tailored to almost any requirement, even for parks with as few as fifty residences. Call us to discuss a customized solution designed to fairly recover more of your park’s utility costs!
Utility Submetering & Billing
for Commercial Properties
Competition among commercial properties is moving property managers to explore every opportunity to make their properties more appealing to potential tenants. And one of the key aspects of attracting new tenants and maintaining maximum occupancy is separating lease rates from utility costs, and fairly recovering utility costs based on usage.
We specialize in maximizing utility cost recovery with industry leading software that records utility usage for properties that have remote read submetering systems. We provide meter reading services for properties that have direct read meters. And we install new submetering systems for properties who wish to start submetering tenant utility usage.
We then build and fully customize a billing solution that not only recovers more of your property’s utility costs but also bills other monthly charges and fees. Other related services such as online account management and billing customer care for your tenants not only makes your property more appealing, it fairly and accurately recovers all monthly charges and allows you to operate more efficiently. Speak to us about a customized Scottsdale utility submetering and billing solution for your commercial property.
Submetering Installation
for New Construction
With the ever increasing costs of utilities, utility submetering in new commercial and new multifamily construction projects has become standard, and having a reliable and experienced submetering installation partner is more important than ever important to the general contractors who manage these projects.
Our installation crews install water, electric and gas submetering systems for new construction projects all over the country. We safely and efficiently install submetering systems to local codes and we fully test every system we install to assure a successful final inspection. If you need a solid submetering installation contractor for projects throughout the country, think Oates Energy.
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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