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Stop subsidizing your tenants' utility usage and taking a hit on your bottom line. With Kaptech’s intelligent submetering, property owners can recover up to 98% of their master water and sewer bills by billing residents for their exact usage. Because recovered utility costs drop straight to your bottom line, most properties see a full return on their Kaptech hardware and installation investment in under 12 to 18 months.
Property valuations are driven by Net Operating Income (NOI). By removing the massive, unpredictable expense of a master water bill from your operating budget, your NOI instantly increases. For a typical 100-unit building, recovering just $4,500 a month in water costs translates to $54,000 in new annual NOI. At a standard 6% cap rate, Kaptech submetering effectively adds nearly $1 million to your total property valuation.
When water is embedded in the rent, residents have zero financial incentive to conserve. A running toilet or a long shower isn't their problem—it's yours. Studies show that when residents are held accountable for their own consumption through submetering, property-wide water usage drops by up to 40%. Kaptech not only helps you recover costs but fundamentally reduces the total master bill you owe the city. Become a “green property” to attract tenants
As utility rates continue to climb nationwide, master-metered properties are forced to raise base rents just to break even, making their listings look expensive. Kaptech allows you to uncouple water costs from rent. By advertising a lower, highly competitive base rent and billing utilities separately, you attract more prospective renters while permanently protecting your margins from unexpected municipal rate hikes.
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(Tenant Billing):
130 Unit Mobile Home Community
Master metered property paying$63,960/year in unrecovered water/sewer cost.
This example uses a moderate running toilet at 0.5 gallons per minute, or about 720 gallons per day per unit- Itshows the impact of five undetected flapper leaks in a 50-unit property if they run for 30 days, and what thatsame pattern would COSt across a full year,
5 UNITS LEAK FOR 30 DAYS
$2,459 in combined water + sewer charges after one month undetected.
KAPTECH CATCHES ONE LEAK IN 24H
$35 before the alert goes to admin and the tenant.
KAPTECH CATCHES ONE LEAK IN 24H
1,296,000 gallons in annual waste if that 30-day undetected leak pattem repeats each month.
5 units / 30 days
$2,459
5 units / 12 months
$29,338
1 unit / 24h alert
$35
SCENARIO
GALLONS
TOTAL COST
1 leaking toilet, 30 days undetected
21,600
$503.67
Kaptech alert after 24 hours
720
$35.24
5 leaking units, 30 days undetected
108,000
$2,458.52
5 leaking units, repeated for 12 months
1,2,96,000
$29,337.82
Rate basis used here: Cleveland Water city consumption charges of $22.65 for the first 0.2 MCF and 538.49 for additional MCFs, plus NEORSO's 2026 regular domestic sewer rate of $130.75 per MCE.One MCF equals 7,480 gallons. Fixed monthly account charges are excluded so this visual isolates leak-volume cost only.
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Scenario is the owner pays the utility master meter but now he has more cash flow.
usage goes down by 40% so his cash flow is even better. tenant turn over is 40-50% he cn now raise rent and not pay for water. ROI is fast
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Let Kaptech Water Submetering show you and your team how water submetering can deliver increased tenant fairness, NOI and water conservation for your property. Shift the financial responsibility for water to your tenants!
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