Utility Cost Recovery
Submetering and RUBS guidance to recapture utility spend that flat-fee billing leaves on the table.
Industry Focus
Multifamily & Property Management
Every unit and every property is a utility and connectivity cost center. FreeTEM helps owners and managers recover spend, cut waste, and protect NOI.
In multifamily, utilities and connectivity quietly erode NOI.
Unrecovered utility costs
Industry figures show a flat-fee property can leave significant utility cost unrecovered every month — at 100+ units that’s thousands monthly that submetering or RUBS could recapture.
Water is a major owner cost
Property water is one of the largest owner-paid utilities, and undetected leaks quietly inflate it month after month.
Residents expect connectivity
Bulk or managed internet and amenity WiFi are increasingly table stakes for leasing and retention.
Aging building lines
Elevator, alarm, and phone POTS lines across buildings keep billing at rising rates while service degrades.
Energy across a portfolio
Common-area and owner-paid energy is rarely benchmarked across properties in deregulated markets.
Bills nobody audits
Each property has its own providers and invoices — without one advisor auditing them, drift and errors go unnoticed.
What FreeTEM helps you fix.
Water Efficiency & Leak Reduction
Through ExactWater, properties typically see 30–45% water reductions, backed by a 120-day guarantee — plus leak risk reduced.
Bulk / Managed Resident Internet & WiFi
Reliable resident and amenity connectivity that supports leasing, retention, and a new ancillary revenue line.
Portfolio Bill Audit
One advisor auditing telecom and energy across every property — catching errors, overage, and silent auto-renewals.
Energy Supply Review
Benchmark owner-paid and common-area energy supply in deregulated markets across the portfolio.
POTS Replacement for Elevators / Alarms
Move legacy copper elevator and alarm lines to modern, monitored, lower-cost digital service.
Property Cybersecurity
Protect management systems and resident data with segmentation and security matched to your portfolio.
Representative Scenario
What an audit can surface for a 150-unit property.
An illustrative scenario built from industry context and supplier-documented performance — not a FreeTEM client result. Figures are attributed to their source, not promised.
The setup: a 150-unit owner billing utilities at a flat fee with property water left unaudited and telecom spread across providers.
What an audit examines: utility cost recovery (submetering / RUBS), property water efficiency, portfolio telecom and energy spend, and building POTS lines.
Illustrative ranges: through ExactWater, properties typically see 30–45% water reductions backed by a 120-day guarantee; and industry figures show submetering or RUBS can recover utility spend that flat-fee billing leaves unrecovered.
Your actual results depend on your units, billing structure, and current rates — which is exactly what a free audit determines.