Fort Worth is a city of nearly a million people with its own rental market, its own water utility, and its own stock of older small multifamily, and landlords here who bundle water into rent absorb every gallon their tenants use. Water submetering ends that arrangement. Away from the newer master-planned edges, neighborhoods like the Near Southside, Poly, and Como hold duplexes, fourplexes, and small apartment buildings owned by individual investors, nearly all running on a single water meter. Tenants who never see a bill have no reason to fix a running toilet or shorten a shower. True Submeter installs an individual water meter on each unit and invoices every tenant automatically for exactly what they used, so the water bill returns to the owner instead of coming out of the margin. Usage drops once it carries a price, disputes over a shared bill end, and net operating income improves. In a rental market this size, unbilled water adds up fast.
