Pharr Utility Submetering and Billing
Recovering More of Your Community’s Utility Costs!
Pharr Utility Submetering and Billing for
Water, Electric and Gas
If you are considering a Pharr utility submetering and billing services provider for your multifamily community or commercial property, you just found a very good option. Oates Energy has been providing world class, customizable utility submetering and billing solutions for clients all across the country for more than 2 decades. Residential and commercial property managers prefer us over our competitors because our Water, Electric and Gas utility submetering and billing solutions can be selected individually and adjusted to their specific needs and preferences. Below is a closer look at how we support a few of our key markets.
Utility Submetering & Billing for
Multifamily Communities
Pharr utility submetering and billing made easy! We’ll assemble and adjust our services your exact needs. The utilities you would like us to submeter, any other other monthly charges and fees you might like us to bill for, the billing policies and guidelines our billing customer care team will use when assisting your residents, even our meter reading services can all be adjusted to fit your precise needs. It’s why so many multifamily communities choose Oates Energy. How would you like our services to help you recover more of your community’s utility costs.
Mobile Home Park Utility
Submetering & Billing
We are almost always the best option for mobile home parks who are looking for ways to recover more of their utility costs and streamline monthly billing. From submetering system installation, to resident billing customer care, to billing solutions for utilities that are not submetered. We provide customized Pharr utility submetering and billing solutions that simplify submetering utilities and recovering utility costs. And we can do all of this for parks with as few as 50 residences. Speak with us about a customized solution specifically designed for your park.
Commercial Property
Submetering & Billing
Commercial property managers face a lot of challenges with billing tenants and accurately recovering utility costs. Commercial tenants often have vastly different utility needs both in the types of utilities they need and monthly consumption. And it’s not uncommon to have special lease terms for utilities and other monthly charges and fees for some larger anchor tenants. We help commercial property managers build customized Pharr utility submetering and billing solutions that accurately track utility usage and recover utility costs. And we can help streamline the tasks associated to monthly billing. Speak with us about a solution designed specifically for your commercial property.
New Construction
Submetering Installation
We partner with general contractors all over the country to install water, electric and gas utility submetering systems for all types of multi-unit new construction projects. We are known for our quality workmanship, our focus on jobsite safety and working well with other trades, and for consistently completing installations on time. If you are planning a new project, 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.
Texas Utility Billing and Submetering Links
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.
