by Denise Deverelle | May 23, 2019 | conservation, multifamily management, NOI, submetering, submeters
Summer is coming, and you know what that means, your budget is about to take a hit for increasing water and electricity. If you’re still flat-rate billing, or your billing provider isn’t putting you first, please download our new ebook. We compiled our...
by Denise Deverelle | May 7, 2019 | multifamily management, submeters
Multifamily Utility Company, Inc., a leading utility submetering and billing company, announced today that Kate Forsyth joined the company as their new Regional Sales Manager covering the MidAtlantic states. In her new position, Kate will be responsible for the...
by Denise Deverelle | Apr 11, 2019 | conservation, submetering, submeters, utility fails
Water submeters can save property owners a lot of money, prevent headaches, and avoid costly repairs. Learn how submeters helped quickly detect a leak caused by a resident’s cat. Alexis and David had been together for three years and lived together for one. They...
by Denise Deverelle | Apr 2, 2019 | conservation, multifamily management, submetering, submeters, utility fails
Sometimes we hear expensive stories. Here’s a great example one of our salespeople shared of submetering saving a property owner a lot of money. Kevin moved into a high-rise building in downtown San Francisco. The place was fantastic, it was close to everything...
by Denise Deverelle | Mar 29, 2019 | conservation, energy efficiency, multifamily management, submeters
Let’s say you have a multifamily property and one water meter for the building. Residents pay their own gas and electric, but you pay the water bill and have always just factored water in when you calculate your rental rates. The water bill keeps getting higher, but...
by Denise Deverelle | Mar 26, 2019 | conservation, energy efficiency, multifamily management
California is leading the way on utility benchmarking in an effort to understand and enforce conservation. Assembly Bill 802 directed the California Energy Commission to create a statewide utility benchmark for buildings larger than 50,000 square feet. The...
by Denise Deverelle | Mar 21, 2019 | multifamily management
Move-in day is a happy one for multifamily managers, but as anyone who has moved recently knows, it can be very stressful for the new resident. I have moved many times and have become something of a pro at having the “day one” box ready with everything I’ll need for...
by Denise Deverelle | Mar 18, 2019 | energy efficiency, multifamily management, submetering, submeters
I don’t know anyone who doesn’t think their utility expenses are too high. I recently examined my own utility bills and discovered I pay, as a single person, an average of $335 per month for electricity, gas, water, and trash/sewer. I started to really think about...
by Denise Deverelle | Feb 18, 2019 | energy efficiency
As a nation, we’ve been doing well with energy savings, but a proposal made earlier this month by the Department of Energy suggests a possible rollback of energy conservation requirements. It is currently open for public debate. As a multifamily property owner,...
by Denise Deverelle | Feb 1, 2019 | conservation, energy efficiency, multifamily management, rental trends
If you haven’t heard by now, Generation Z makes up 25% of the U.S. population. That means a quarter of the U.S. was born in the mid-nineties to early 2000’s. Gen-Z is unique; they are full of ideas, higher conscious levels and essentially want to save the world. One...
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