Bryan Utility Submetering and Billing

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Bryan Utility Submetering and Billing
for Water, Electric and Gas

Oates Energy was founded on the idea of providing customizable utility submetering and billing solutions for multifamily communities, condominium communities, mobile home parks, and commercial properties. Our Bryan utility submetering and billing clients enjoy a detailed suite of services that can be selected individually and then adjusted and delivered exactly the way they need them to be. Read more below about how we serve a few of our key markets in Bryan, Texas.

Utility Submetering & Billing
for Multifamily Communities

Bryan Utility Submetering and Billing for Multifamily Communities

Property managers of large and small multifamily communities all share some common responsibilities. And recovering utility costs and billing for other monthly charges and fees are two of the most important. Billing residents is a huge but very necessary task that often requires additional staff and many hours of attention each month.

Given the importance of accurately managing this huge monthly task, many multifamily property managers have elected to use utility submetering an billing services providers. We are often able to provide our property managers with a more efficient and less expensive alternative to traditional providers by tailoring our services to their unique requirements and preferences. Speak with us about a customized Bryan utility submetering and billing solution designed specifically for your community.

Utility Submetering & Billing
for Condominium Communities

Bryan Utility Submetering and Billing for Condominium Communities

We partner with condo community property managers that wish to accurately and fairly recover more of their community’s utility costs by providing an extensive suite of services that can be selected individually and then adjusted to suit each community’s unique needs and preferences. This level of customization is helpful to condominium communities as they often have very specific preferences about how they recover utility costs and other monthly charges and fees. Contact us to learn more about how our customized Bryan utility submetering and billing services to recover more of your utility costs and help you operate more efficiently.

Utility Submetering & Billing
for
Mobile Home Parks

Bryan Utility Submetering and Billing for Mobile Home Parks

If you are a mobile home park property manager, you know how much utility costs can impact your bottom line. Older malfunctioning meters, unnoticed leaks, inaccurate utility company charges and a variety of other factors can all add up to significant losses in monthly revenues.

We can design and install utility submetering systems and make repairs if you would like to bill utilities based on usage. If you prefer not to add new submetering equipment or repair failing systems, we can provide a “RUBS”, (Ratio Utility Billing System) based on factors defined by you. We can also bill for other monthly charges and fees such as cable TV or Internet. And you can define billing policies and guideline for our billing customer care team to use in assisting your residents with billing questions. Call us today and let’s build the perfect Bryan utility submetering and billing solution for your park.

Utility Submetering & Billing
for
Commercial Properties

Bryan Utility Submetering and Billing for Commercial Properties

Commercial properties typically have a variety of tenants with differing utility needs. And if your property does not have utility submeters, it can be very difficult to fairly and accurately recover utility costs. Most commercial properties that do not submeter utilities are forced to include utility costs in their CAM or monthly lease rates. But this can still lead to losses.

If you are interested in recovering more of your property’s utility costs and billing based on actual usage, we have solutions that can be adjusted to your specific needs and preferences. Contact us to discuss a customized Bryan utility submetering and billing solution designed specifically for you and your property.

Submetering Installation
for New Construction

Bryan Utility Submetering Installation Contractors

Oates Energy is a national utility submetering system installation contractor. We install water, electric and gas utility submetering systems for new multi-unit commercial and residential construction projects all over the country. If you are planning a new construction project or need to add utility submetering to an existing multi-unit 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.

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