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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m in MoCo - so the companies are different - but I kept the water bill in our names instead of the tenant the first two years we rented out due to an excess of caution - an unpaid water bill can become a lien on the house, and an excessively large water bill can indicate a big problem. We had just experienced this at our primary residence when the main water line sprung a leak between the street and the house (our responsibility) and we first found out because the normally $200 quarterly bill was $1800. Now I have the tenants pay, but some things to think about for you.[/quote]

My husband said exactly this - keeping it in our name we will have an early detection of a leak. Why did you switch it to having the tenants pay?[/quote]

When those tenants moved out and we had to re-rent I found it harder to compare our asking rent to other properties when we included water and most other landlords didn’t. And we have since bought other rental properties and it was simpler to have fewer bills. Last time the new tenant asked me a question about something, I did ask if their water bills were OK and told them that if they were over the typical amount to let us know right away. [/quote]

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