Buckeye
Utility Submetering and Billing
Customs Tailored Solutions for All Types of Multifamily Communities
Buckeye Utility Submetering and Billing Water, Electric and Gas
At Oates Energy we specialize in working with property managers to custom tailored Buckeye utility submetering and billing solutions for multifamily communities, condominium communities and buildings, mobile home parks, commercial properties and buildings. In addition to our customized utility submetering and billing solutions, our clients enjoy our U.S. based full service resident billing customer care, that assist residents with any billing questions or concerns they may have, Ratio Billing Services, (RUBS) for properties that do not have utility submeters, and dedicated client relations managers who provide our property managers with any support or assistance they may require. Read more below about how we support a few of our key markets.
Utility Submetering & Billing
for Multifamily Communities
Managing the recovery of utility costs for a large multifamily community is no small task. Multifamily communities often have a large number of residences that they submeter and bill for not only utilities, but also for other services and fees such as cable TV, phone and Internet, even garage and pet fees.
Oates Energy customizes utility submetering and billing solutions that are customized for each community and completely handle this huge responsibility. We accurately monitor utility usage either with remote read submetering systems or by dispatching meter reading teams to directly read meters. For communities that do not have utility submeters, we implement a RUBS formula. And we can bill residents for more than just utilities, for not only utilities, we can also bill for any other monthly charges and fees using each communities unique billing policies and guidelines.
Speak with us about a customized Buckeye utility submetering and billing solution for your community!
Utility Submetering & Billing
for Condominium Communities
Condominium communities and buildings need to fairly recover utility costs to help keep their Condo and HOA fees as low as possible for their residents. We assist condominium HOAs and property managers carefully tailor our utility submetering and billing solutions to accurately recover utility costs within their budgets.
Our ability to create and customize “total” utility submetering and billing solutions combined with our U.S. based billing customer care for residents, and dedicated client relations managers that provide support for our property managers have made us on of the nations fastest growing condominium utility submetering and billing companies. Contact us to discuss our Buckeye utility submetering and billing services and recover more of your condo community’s utility costs.
Utility Submetering & Billing
for Mobile Home Parks
Mobile home park property manager prefer Oates Energy because of our flexibility. We are able to cost effectively customize solutions for a variety of scenarios that our competitors do not have the flexibility to address. We custom design and install remote read submetering systems for parks who wish to add or update their utility submetering systems, and for residences or utilities that are not submetered, we provide alternative billing solutions such as “RUBS”, (Ratio Utility Billing System). We even audit utility bills to make sure your monthly utility charges match the usage data we are collecting. Speak with us about a custom tailored Buckeye utility submetering and billing solution for your park!
Utility Submetering & Billing
for Commercial Properties
Commercial properties often face unique challenges when it comes to recovering utility costs and billing their tenants. Tenant utility usage often varies greatly between tenants and special lease terms and billing arrangements can further complicate accurate billing and utility costs recovery. We design and monitor utility submetering systems that track utility usage for each tenant, regardless of size. And we use that data to accurately bill tenants for their utility usage with each property manager’s unique billing policies! Contact us to discuss a customized Buckeye utility submetering and billing solution for your commercial property.
Submetering Installation
for New Construction
If you are planning a new multi-unit residential or commercial construction project that calls for utility submetering systems installation, be sure to consider Oates Energy. We install new water, electric and gas utility submetering system for new construction projects all over the country. We have an excellent reputation for quality workmanship, jobsite safety, collaborating well with other trades and completing projects on time. If you are seeking a reliable utility submetering installation contractor, be sure to call us for 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.
