Texas Utility Billing and Submetering Solutions for Multifamily Properties
Think Utility Services provides professional utility billing and water, gas, and electric submetering services throughout Texas. We help apartment communities, condominium associations, RV parks, retail centers, mixed-use developments, and commercial properties recover utility costs while improving billing accuracy and reducing overall consumption.
With more than 65 years of industry experience and over 100,000 submeters installed nationwide, our team delivers turnkey solutions including submeter installation, meter reading, resident billing, collections, maintenance, reporting, and customer support. Whether your property is located in Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Fort Worth, Plano, Arlington, Corpus Christi, or El Paso, we can design a customized utility management program that aligns with your property's operational and financial goals.
Texas property owners increasingly rely on submetering to create fair utility cost allocation, encourage conservation, and improve net operating income. By billing residents based on actual consumption rather than averaging utility costs across all units, communities often experience measurable reductions in water, gas, and electric usage while increasing cost recovery.
Submetering Retail Centers
We've been submetering apartments for over 60 years. It’s easy to implement submetering at multifamily buildings and other property types in Texas. Think Utility Services has provided water utility services to Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Austin, Fort Worth, El Paso, Arlington, Corpus Christi, Plano, Laredo, and more. Our submetering process has proven to reduce property consumption by 15% – 40% by making tenants responsible for consumption.
Submetering RV Parks
Think Utility Services offers code-compliant submetering systems for Condominium and Townhome communities. From system design and installation to monthly meter reading and billing and ongoing service, we handle everything so you don’t have to! We take care of the submetering system installation, billing solutions, collections, owner, and tenant billing. We guarantee the lowest submeter pricing and the fastest lead times in the United States of America.
Submetering New Developments
Wireless monitoring of each resident’s water usage empowers building owners, new development buildings, and managers to bill accurately, and fairly, depending on the residents’ actual consumption. Utilities represent the single largest controllable cost in a rental-housing, new development, and commercial properties. Submetering can help decrease utility costs significantly. Submetering offers huge advantages for apartment buildings in any state. Learn more today about submetering your building.
Quick Fact
An owner of an apartment house on which construction begins after January 1, 2003, and which provides government assisted or subsidized rental housing to low or very low income residents shall install a plumbing system in the apartment house that is compatible with the installation of submeters for the measurement of the quantity of water, if any, consumed by the occupants of each unit. - Under Texas Water Code Chapter 13 Subchapter M Law
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Texas State Submetering Policies
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).
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“For informational purposes only. Information may or may not be current. Please consult with an attorney for any matters relating to Federal, State or local regulations.”
