Irving
Utility Submetering and Billing
Recover More of Your Utility Costs
with a Customized Utility Submetering and Billing Solution!
Irving Utility Submetering and Billing
for Water, Electric and Gas
Utility costs are often the greatest expense for multifamily and condominium communities, commercial properties and mobile home parks. And with the ever increasing cost of utilities, an effective Irving utility submetering and billing solution has become more important than ever.
At Oates Energy, we specialize in helping these types of communities recover more of their utility costs with customized Irving utility submetering and billing solutions that are tailored to their specific needs and preferences. We allow property managers to select only the services they need and adjust them to be provided they way they need and prefer them to be provided. Truly customized utility submetering and billing solutions. Below is a closer look at how we help our key markets recover more of their utility costs.
Irving
Utility Submetering & Billing
for Multifamily Communities
We designed our entire suite of Irving utility submetering and billing services to be totally customizable so that property managers of multifamily communities could choose only services they need and then adjust them to their preferences. Everything from our full service U.S. based billing customer care, to our online account services for residents and management portal for property managers, to which utilities and other monthly services and fees we bill residents for. All of our services can be adjusted to the unique needs and preferences of each community.
Contact us to discuss a customized solution designed to recover more of your community’s utility costs!
Irving
Utility Submetering & Billing
for Condominium Communities
It’s not easy for condominium community HOAs to find the right utility submetering and billing provider to work with. Most often utility submetering and billing services providers prefer to work with very large properties and provide the exact same suite of services to all of their customers. This one size fits all approach often forces small to mid-sized condominium communities to select the provider that is closest to their actual needs and pay for services they do not want or need.
At Oates Energy, we created and designed our services to be completely flexible. We let you choose the services you want and need from a full suite of submetering and billing services. Then we work with you to adjust those services so they are provided the way you need them to be provided. Truly customized Irving utility submetering and billing solutions designed to address your exact needs and reduce HOA and condo fees! And we can do this for communities with a few as fifty residences. Contact us to discuss a customized solution for your community.
Irving
Utility Submetering & Billing
for Mobile Home Parks
Oates Energy offers excellent solutions that help mobile home parks recover more of their utility costs. We install utility submetering systems for parks who wish to install new or update their existing utility submetering systems, we can provide meter reading services for parks with direct read utility submeters. And for parks that do not have utility submeters, we can customize a “RUBS”, (Ratio Utility Billing System) billing solution. And when it comes to billing, we can customize a solution for almost any scenario. Contact us to discuss an Irving utility submetering and billing that will help your park recover more of its utility costs!
Irving
Utility Submetering & Billing
for Commercial Properties
Commercial property tenants are much more diverse than residential tenants. They can range from small restaurants to retail stores to large grocery stores and can even have special utility cost or billing arrangement in their lease agreements. And our entire suite of utility submetering and billing services were designed from the ground up to address these types of unique needs and requirements. Contact us to discuss a customized utility submetering and or billing solution for your commercial property.
Submetering Installation
for New Construction
With today’s utility costs, most multi-unit residential and commercial new construction project plans are calling for utility submetering systems. And as a national utility submetering installation contractor, we are regularly called upon by general contractors for these types of projects to professionally install water, electric and gas utility submetering systems. We have an excellent record of jobsite safety, quality workmanship and consistently completing projects on time and within budget. If you are planning a new project with utility submetering requirements, we would be pleased to provide your 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.
