Pflugerville
Utility Submetering and Billing Services
Tailored to Your Community’s Unique Needs
Pflugerville Utility Submetering and Billing for
Water, Electric and Gas
Residential and commercial property managers choose Oates Energy for Pflugerville utility submetering and billing because of our ability to deliver fully customized solutions. Instead of offering rigid service packages, we allow clients to select each service individually and tailor it to match their exact needs and preferences. This flexible approach ensures every system is aligned with the unique requirements of the property and its management team.
Our Pflugerville utility submetering and billing services support a wide range of property types, including multifamily communities, condominium associations, mobile home parks, and commercial properties. Each solution is designed to improve efficiency, accuracy, and cost recovery. Below is a closer look at how we serve these key markets and adapt our services to meet their specific demands.
Multifamily
Submetering & Billing
Oates Energy was founded by industry professionals who understood that every property manager has a different approach to recovering utility costs. That insight shaped our flexible model for Pflugerville utility submetering and billing, allowing us to deliver solutions that adapt to each property rather than forcing clients into a one-size-fits-all, predetermined bundle of services . Our goal is to provide a more responsive, customizable alternative to traditional providers.
With our Pflugerville utility submetering and billing, we don’t rely on prepackaged service bundles. Instead, we design each solution to be delivered exactly how property managers want it implemented. From billing methods to service structure, everything is adjusted to meet your preferences and operational goals. Tell us how you want to recover more of your utility costs, and we’ll build a solution around your needs.
Condominium Utility
Submetering & Billing
As a condominium property manager, you already know that controlling operating expenses is essential to keeping HOA or condo fees as low as possible. Encouraging conservation and accurately recovering utility costs are key parts of that effort. Our Pflugerville utility submetering and billing services are designed to support these goals by giving communities the tools they need to manage usage more effectively and fairly.
With our Pflugerville utility submetering and billing, we provide meter reading services, manage advanced remote-read submetering systems, and create customized RUBS formulas for residences or entire communities without submeters. Our billing services can be structured in whatever way works best for your operations. Tell us how you’d like to improve cost recovery, and we’ll design a solution tailored to your community.
Mobile Home Park
Submetering & Billing
Recovering utility costs in mobile home parks can become increasingly complex, especially when different residents are billed in different ways, multiple fees are involved, and some utilities are submetered while others are not. These challenges often lead to inaccurate billing and reduced cost recovery. Our Pflugerville utility submetering and billing solutions are designed to simplify these issues and bring consistency and accuracy to your billing process.
With our Pflugerville utility submetering and billing, we’ve helped hundreds of mobile home park managers streamline operations and recover more of their utility expenses. Every solution is fully customizable and can be tailored to fit parks with as few as 50 residences. We adapt our services to your specific setup, giving you better control and efficiency. Contact us to create the ideal solution for your park.
Commercial Property
Submetering & Billing
Our flexible approach makes our Pflugerville utility submetering and billing an ideal solution for commercial property managers with diverse and evolving needs. Every service we offer is designed to be fully customized, allowing us to align with both property management preferences and tenant-specific requirements. We can tailor solutions for virtually any scenario and quickly adjust as tenant demands change over time. If you are looking to improve utility cost recovery while maintaining control over how services are structured and delivered, we can build a solution that fits your exact specifications.
New Construction
Submetering Installation
We install water, gas, and electric utility submetering systems for new construction projects nationwide and are a trusted partner for general contractors across the country. Our team is known for delivering high-quality workmanship while consistently meeting project timelines, making us a reliable choice for submetering system installation. From planning through completion, we focus on precision, efficiency, and seamless coordination on every job. If your upcoming project requires utility submetering installation, we would be pleased to provide a detailed and competitive 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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