mowermech wrote:
They also, so we were told, found that they could only charge what they were paying for electricity. A profit was not allowed unless they got a state license as a Utility Company.
In CA (San Diego excluded), as you mentioned, they can only charge the actual usage based on posted rates from the utility service. But, they can also (currently) charge you $2 for a water meter, $3 for the electric meter, and $4 for gas meter as well as a "reasonable" admin cost to read and invoice from that meter.
I belive they can still RUBS for common area usage providing that usage is dedicated only for those who are on meters. So they can't have a long term metered area and a short term non metered area where they try charging all common areas to the meter units alone. The meter units only pay for common area utilities dedicated to their use only.