Missouri City
Utility Submetering and Billing Services
Customized to your Exact Needs and Preferences
Missouri City Utility Submetering and Billing for
Water, Electric and Gas
Oates Energy is a leading national provider of water, electric and gas utility submetering and billing services that are customizable to the unique needs and preferences of each of our property managers. Our Missouri City utility submetering and billing services are a detailed suite of billing, support, resident billing support and other customizable utility billing services that can be adjusted to create the perfect solution for any multifamily community or commercial property. And our clients never have to choose the bundle of services that is “closest” to their needs and pay for services or support that they do not need or want.
Our submetering and billing services were specifically developed by industry experts who understood the unique needs of multifamily communities, condominium communities, mobile home parks, and commercial properties and buildings. Below is a closer look at how we serve a few of our key markets.
Multifamily | Apartment
Submetering & Billing
Missouri City utility submetering and billing exactly the way you need it! We tailor our billing services and our extended services to your exact preferences and requirements. And we can also provide billing customer care for your residents using your unique billing policies and guidelines. We even dedicate an experienced client relations manager to support you so that that when you do need support, they will already be familiar with all of the services and how we provide them for your community. We’re intentionally different from our competitors. Speak with us about a customized solution for your community.
Condominium
Submetering & Billing
Property managers and homeowners associations prefer our Missouri City utility submetering and billing solutions over our competitors for a number of reasons. Among the top reasons are how we help condominium communities select only the services they need. We do not expect our customers to choose packages or bundles of services that often result in paying for services that really don’t need. In fact, the property managers we speak with are often surprised by our flexibility. Contact us to discuss a customized solution that will encourage conservation and recover more of your community’s utility costs.
Mobile Home Park
Submetering & Billing
When it comes to utility submetering and billing, mobile home parks can have some of the most challenging requirements. But this isn’t a problem for us. We were built for challenges. We’ve customized Missouri City utility submetering and billing solutions for parks with different residents having different utilities submetered, submetering systems that are in need of repair or replacement, parks that did not have utility submeters at all, and parks that needed us to bill some residents based on usage and others based on a RUBS formula.
In every case, we were able to adjust our services to create a solution that accurately addressed their unique needs. Contact us to learn more about how we help mobile home parks with as few as 50 residences accurately recover more of the utility costs.
Commercial Property
Submetering & Billing
Commercial properties who require customized Missouri City utility submetering and billing services usually find us to be their best option. It’s because of how we are able and willing to adjust all of our services to effectively address each property manager’s unique needs and preferences. And when it comes to commercial tenants, any commercial property manager can tell you that their tenants can have some very specific needs when it comes to utilities and lease terms. Speak with us about a utility submetering and billing solution customized to accurately recover more of your property’s utility costs and help you operate more efficiently.
New Construction
Submetering Installation
Oates Energy installs water, electric and gas utility submetering systems for new construction projects all over the country. In fact, their are many general contractors that use us exclusively for their projects because they have grown to trust that we will consistently complete projects properly and on time. If your are planning a new construction project that calls for utility submetering system 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.
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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