Guides

• What Is RUBS (Ratio Utility Billing)? — How landlords split a master-metered utility bill by square footage, occupants or bedrooms, and what a lease needs to say.
• RUBS: Vacant Units, Move-Ins and Common Areas — Who pays for a vacant unit's share, how to prorate a mid-month move-in, and how a common-area deduction works.
• Texas Water Allocation Rules (16 TAC §24.281) in Plain English — The Texas methods for allocating master-metered water and sewer: occupancy and bedroom scales, the square-footage cap, common areas and fees.

Tools

• RUBS calculator for small landlords
• Split one water bill between apartments
• A utility bill-back spreadsheet that does the math

Comparisons

• A RUBS software alternative for a few units
• A RUBS template that does the math for you