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Ok, this post is more of a question to landlords out there who have more experience. Is there an easy way to deal with the transition of utilites (water/electric/gas) when a tenant moves out other than calling each one to arrange service again? This is a tedious process and one I would like to refine/automate in some way to streamline the process. I asked the electric company once about this and they do have some program, which I don't remember the name of it, where the power will automatically be switched over to your name when the tenant switches it off. I was warned however that in the event your tenant gets behind on bills and is disconnected for non-payment, guess what? Power stays on but is now in your name. Don't want that!
So right now this isn't that big of a deal for us because we don't have that many houses yet. But let's say you have 20 houses: it could become a logistical nightmare. We also haven't posed the question to our property manager yet, could be that they will handle it. But we haven't been in the situation where a tenant has left and the PM gets ready for another tenant. Last time a tenant left on us, we fired the property manager due to poor performance. We did the utilities manually then.
Any input from landlords who have found a way to streamline this will definitely be welcome!
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