Harlingen Utility Submetering and Billing
For Multifamily Communities and Commercial Properties
Harlingen Utility Submetering and Billing for
Water, Electric and Gas
If you are exploring Harlingen utility submetering and billing services for your multifamily community, condominium community, mobile home park or commercial property, you can stop searching. Oates Energy has been providing world class, customizable utility submetering and billing solutions for property managers all across the country for more than two decades. Residential and commercial property managers partner with us because our Water, Electric and Gas utility submetering and billing solutions can be customized to their exact needs and preferences. Below is a closer look at how we support a few of our key markets.
Harlingen Utility Submetering & Billing for
Multifamily Communities
We’ll assemble and adjust our services your exact needs. Submetering equipment installation, which utilities you would like us to submeter, other monthly charges you might like us to bill for, the policies and guidelines that you would like our billing customer care to use when assisting your residents, ever service we provide can be adjusted to your specific needs and preferences. It’s why so many multifamily communities choose Oates Energy. Speak with us about a customized Harlingen utility submetering and billing solution for your community.
Mobile Home Park
Submetering & Billing
We are the best utility submetering and billing services option for mobile home park property managers who are interested in a cost effective solution. From submetering system upgrades and new system installation, to resident billing support, to customized RUBS billing for residents that do not have utility submeters. We provide total solutions that simplify the tasks associated to submetering utilities and recovering utility costs. Speak with us about the perfect Harlingen utility submetering and billing solution for your park.
Commercial Property
Submetering & Billing
Commercial property managers face some different challenges than residential property managers. One of the biggest is that their tenants often have vastly different utility requirements. We help commercial property managers with customized Harlingen utility submetering and billing solutions that accurately track utility usage and recover utility costs. And we can help streamline monthly billing by billing tenants for all of their monthly charges. Speak with us about a customized solution for your commercial property.
New Construction
Submetering Installation
Developers and contractors around the country trust our experienced installation technicians because we consistently provide quality workmanship, assure that all work is performed to local building codes not matter where the project is located, are always focused on jobsite safety and consistently complete projects on time. Give us a call for a detailed utility submetering installation bid for your next project. And be sure to add Oates Energy to your bid list.
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.
Texas Utility Billing and Submetering Links
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