Submetering Guides
Long-form reference material on compliance, metering architecture, and the revenue that utility recovery actually produces.
Read Before You Buy
Twelve deep dives into the decisions that determine whether a submetering system holds up legally and financially.
California SB-7 & Submetering Compliance
What SB-7, Weights & Measures rules, and California billing law require before you can charge a tenant for measured utility use.
Read the GuideThe API Trap
Why billing platforms built on third-party meter clouds put your data, your uptime, and your chain of custody outside your control.
Read the GuideSolar at Submetered Properties
Where on-site solar really pays at a submetered property: offsetting the load you already buy, and what California lets you bill tenants for it.
Read the GuideThe Cap Rate Multiplier
Recovered utility cost is permanent NOI, and NOI is capitalised at sale — the math that turns a metering retrofit into equity.
Read the GuideA Landlord's Guide to Electric Submetering
Who can submeter electricity in California, what you are allowed to charge, how meters are certified, and what tenants actually see on the bill.
Read the GuideRUBS vs. Submetering
Ratio billing against measured billing: what is lawful for electricity and water, accuracy, tenant disputes, and when RUBS still makes sense for water.
Read the GuideBilling Tenants for EV Charging
Metered, networked, or flat fee: the ways to recover EV charging cost from tenants, and the California rules that decide which ones are lawful.
Read the GuideThe Meter Retrofit Checklist
Retrofitting an older building step by step: site survey, panel space, meter selection, cutover and tenant notice.
Read the GuideWater Submetering for Apartment Communities
What SB 7 requires once you bill apartment residents for water: disclosures, bill contents, allowed fees, and per-unit meters versus RUBS.
Read the GuideWater Submetering for Mobilehome and RV Parks
How parks on a master meter can bill each space for water, the rate limits that apply, and what a compliant bill shows.
Read the GuideWater Submetering for Condos and HOAs
Moving from water in the assessments to per-unit billing: what the governing documents and the board have to do first.
Read the GuideCommercial and Mixed-Use Water Submetering
Passing water and sewer through to retail and office tenants, and why water leaves more room than electricity does.
Read the GuideHave a Property in Mind?
We will walk the building, review your utility bills, and tell you what a compliant system would actually cost and recover.
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