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Originally Posted by Hondaracer

Yea, TV, Internet, water, even gas I don’t really care about I’ll eat those costs.

But as I mentioned before, my stupid suite eats up the vast majority of my hydro as it’s all baseboard heating, electric range, in-suite laundry etc.

Before I have new tenants move in I’m going to install programmable baseboard thermostats to at least try and attempt to lower the cost, but it really started to piss me off getting $500-$600 hydro bills in the winter when the only thing in my entire portion of the home on hydro is my dryer (or that is a major drain I’d say)

First world landlord problems I know, woe is me, however, it’s kind of the reality that a tenant should pay their share of their shit, and as everything continues to go up and up, my current tenant, although great, has gotten an amazing deal by basically avoiding inflation through either no rent increases, or the one time I raised it the “max” a whopping $62 a month.

i'm in a similar scenario except i never bother increasing as it's negligible at this point and not worth rocking the boat with good tenants.