Avondale Utility Submetering and Billing
For All Types of Multifamily Communities
Water, Electric and Gas
Utility Submetering and Billing in Avondale, Arizona
For over 20 years, Oates Energy has specialized in providing Avondale utility submetering and billing for Water, Electric and Gas. We provide industry leading billing solutions for submetered utilities tailored to the unique needs of each of our clients and their properties. We also provide Ratio Billing Services, (RUBS) for properties without submeters. And we provide a suite of value added such as billing for other monthly charges and fees, online account management for residents, online billing management for property managers, resident billing customer care and more.
Below is more information about how we support a few of our key markets. Explore the details about the services we provide for your market and give us a call if you would like to build the perfect utility submetering and or billing solution for your community.
Avondale Utility Submetering & Billing
for Multifamily Communities
Multifamily community property managers often manage hundreds of residences that must be billed for their utility usage in order for the community to recover its utility costs. In many cases, communities also bill residents for other monthly charges and fees. Managing utility submetering and the billing of utilities and other charges and fees can be a daunting monthly task that takes property managers away from managing other important responsibilities.
We customize our Avondale utility submetering and billing solutions so that our property managers can assemble the perfect solution for their community. Speak with us about our cost effective solutions and how you can assemble only the services you need and have them provide however you like.
Utility Submetering & Billing
for Condominium Communities
We provide customized Avondale utility submetering and billing solutions to condo community HOAs and property managers who are interested in fairly recovering more of their utility costs based on actual utility usage. This is a common goal for condominium communities and buildings. And utility submetering is a win-win. The community is able to accurately recover more of its utility costs and residents are able to control their utility costs.
Our customizable billing options allow property managers to fully customize how we bill their residents and fully manage our billing via our online services. Speak with us about our cost effective approach to utility submetering and billing and we will help you customize the perfect solution for your community.
Avondale Utility Submetering & Billing
for Mobile Home Parks
Oates Energy is a great fit for mobile home park property managers. We assemble cost effective Avondale utility submetering and billing solutions that allow mobile home parks to recover utility costs and bill for other monthly charges and fees however they would like us to. For utilities that are submetered, we can bill residents based on actual usage. For utilities that are not, we can bill for utilities based on a RUBS formula using criteria defined by you.
Select the services you would like us to provide and then adjust the services you selected to your exact needs. And we can extend this level of flexibility to parks with as few as 50 residences. Speak with us about the perfect solution for your park.
Utility Submetering & Billing
for Commercial Properties
When commercial properties do not have utility submetering in place, property managers often include utility charges in the monthly lease rates. However, this can cause the advertised lease rates to be higher and less competitive than competing commercial properties who submeter tenant utility usage and recover utility costs separately based on actual usage. Speak with us about our customized Avondale utility submetering and billing solutions for your commercial property.
Submetering Installation
for New Construction
With today’s utility costs, it has become very common for multifamily and multi-unit commercial new construction projects to include utility submetering. We partner with general contractors all over the country to install new water, electric and gas utility submetering systems for new construction construction projects. We have an excellent reputation for completing projects on time and quality workmanship. If you are planning a new project that calls for utility submetering installation and need a contractor you can count on, we would be pleased to provide you with a detailed bid.
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.
