Abilene
Utility Submetering and Billing Services
Tailored to the Needs of Your Community
Abilene Utility Submetering and Billing for
Water, Electric and Gas
Residential and commercial property managers prefer Oates Energy for Water, Electric and Gas utility submetering and billing solutions over our competitors because we allow them to build the perfect solution for their needs. All of our Abilene utility submetering and billing services can be selected individually and tailored specifically to each property manager’s needs and preferences. Our key markets are Multifamily communities, condominium communities, mobile home parks and commercial properties. And below is a closer look at how we serve them.
Multifamily
Submetering & Billing
The industry experts that founded Oates Energy possessed the experience to know that property managers all have their own unique preferences about how they recover utility costs. This is why they created Oates Energy to be a completely different approach to utility submetering and billing.
Rather than bundling a fixed suite of the most commonly needed services and trying to provide them to all customers in the same way, we designed our Abilene utility submetering and billing services so they could be provided however our property manager’s would like them to be provided. We don’t expect our property managers to adjust to how we provide services, we adjust our solutions to the needs of our customers. Tell us how you would like us to recover more of your utility costs.
Condominium Utility
Submetering & Billing
As a condominium property manager, you are undoubtedly focused on the costs associated to operating your community in order to keep HOA or condo fees as low as possible. And you will probably agree that encouraging utility conservation and accurately recover utility costs is a key aspect in accomplishing this.
We designed Our Abilene utility submetering and billing services to help condominium communities recover more of their utility costs. We provide communities with meter reading services, manage remote read submetering systems, customize a RUBS formula for individual residences or entire communities that do not have utility submeters, and our billing services can be organized however you like. How would you would like us to help your community recover more of its utility costs?
Mobile Home Park
Submetering & Billing
Recovering utility costs can become complicated for mobile home parks over time. Billing different residents in different ways, billing residents for a variety of other monthly services and fees, and having some utilities submetered while others are not. These factors and others can prevent park managers from accurately recovering their park’s utility costs.
We have customized our Abilene utility submetering and billing solutions and have helped hundreds of mobile home park property managers operate more efficiently and recover more of their utility costs. And we can offer this level of customization for parks with as few as 50 residences. Speak with us about the perfect utility submetering and billing solution for your park.
Commercial Property
Submetering & Billing
Our flexibility is perfect for the diverse utility submetering and billing needs of commercial property managers. All of our services were designed to be customized to the unique needs and preferences of the property manager as well as the needs of their tenants. We can customize our solutions for virtually any need or preference, and we can easily adjust as tenant requirements change. If you are looking for ways to recover more of your property’s utility costs but have some specific requirements on how you would like to do so, no problem. speak with us about building the perfect Abilene utility submetering and billing solution for your property.
New Construction
Submetering Installation
We install new water, gas and electric utility submetering systems for new construction projects all over the country. And we are the go-to utility submetering system installation contractor for general contractors all over the country. We have an excellent reputation for quality workmanship and completing projects on time. If you are planning a new construction project that calls for utility submetering installation, we would be pleased to provide you with a detailed bid.
Utility Submetering Laws and Regulations in Texas
A political subdivision may not authorize the construction or occupancy of a new apartment house, including the conversion of property to a condominium, unless the construction plan provides for the measurement of the quantity of electricity consumed by the occupants of each dwelling unit of the apartment house, either by individual metering by the utility company or by submetering by the owner.
This section does not prohibit a political subdivision from issuing a permit to a nonprofit organization for construction of a new apartment house for occupancy by low-income elderly tenants if the nonprofit organization establishes, by submitting engineering and cost data and a sworn statement, that all cost savings will be passed on to the low-income elderly tenants (Tex. Utilities Code Ann. §184.012).
The Texas Water Code requires each unit in a building with five or more residential units built after Jan. 1, 2003 to have either an individual water utility meter or sub-meter. If feasible, it requires water companies to install individual meters in such buildings at the building owner’s request. The water company can charge reasonable costs for installing the meters. If the water company determines that installing these meters is not feasible, the law requires the property owner to install a plumbing system compatible with sub-meters.
For submetering multi-unit property owners, the state’s water code limits submetering charges on tenants to the cost per gallon and applicable taxes and surcharges charged by the water company; a late fee up to five percent of the late bill; and a service charge of up to nine percent of the costs related to submetering allocated to each sub-metered unit. The code also requires the property owners to maintain adequate records and make them available to tenants and sub-meters to meet certain standards for accuracy, testing, and record keeping (Texas Water Code §13.501 through 13.506).
*Information courtesy of:
The National Conference of State Legislatures
WestlawNext, 2016.
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