If you own rental property in Cedar Falls, Iowa, water submetering lets you bill every tenant for their own water and stop absorbing the overage building-wide. Cedar Falls is shaped by the University of Northern Iowa, and the housing near campus is largely individually owned student rentals: duplexes, older houses divided into units, and small apartment buildings. When water is wrapped into a flat rent, the tenant who never sees a bill has no reason to fix a running toilet or rein in a long shower, so usage runs high and varies from unit to unit, and the building re-leases every academic year. True Submeter gives Cedar Falls owners an affordable way to put an individual water meter on each unit, so every tenant is billed for exactly what they use. Usage falls, billing disputes end, and your net operating income climbs, with most owners recovering their full investment within six months. In a rental market this tied to UNI, your water billing should keep pace with the calendar.
