Between Cornell and Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York holds one of the most concentrated student rental markets in the Northeast, and nearly all of it belongs to individual landlords renting converted houses and small apartment buildings. Water submetering lets those owners recover the full water bill instead of quietly folding it into rent and eating whatever tenants pour through it. Collegetown fills with a new wave of renters every August, none of whom see a water bill, so nobody reports the leaking fixture or thinks twice about the forty-minute shower. True Submeter puts an individual water meter on each unit and invoices every tenant automatically for exactly the water they used. Owners watch consumption fall, water disputes end, and net operating income climb, and most recover the full hardware cost within about six months. Two campuses’ worth of turnover will never manage your water usage for you. Metering each unit means you no longer need it to.
