Do smart electric meters alert the power company when it's removed?

[ultrarunner]

It’s possible but now I’m not paying for the power…

I don’t know what to expect when I have boots on the ground…

The previous renter went full eviction and really trashed everything… would not vacate until the Sheriff put him out… only paid rent for 3 months and then 7 not paying… the trash left behind haul out was 6k.

Guy is a contractor and used my place as a personal job site dump… rented rooms to his employees and left behind junk cars, burnt out camper, etc…u

In 43 years of rentals never had anything like this but this is the only property where I paid for professional property management… all others I’m within a 20 minute drive.

 

[grsthegreat]

When i inherited parents house in calif, i sold it because i live in idaho and didnt want to be a long distant landlord. I finally got out of my rental in idaho also, because i didnt want to be a landlord at all it seems. At the time i sold the idaho house (few years ago) we were making $900 per month on a small 2 bed 2 bath house. We threw the money from the sale of that house into high yield cd that has paid as much as we were making in rent for 4 years now. Ididnt want to invest this money in stocks at the time and just use this money for emergency fund.

In retrospect if i had invested it, we would have made more, but i already had alot in stocks that was not available for emergency purchases and repairs.

 

[ultrarunner]

The idea was to relocate…

In 2005 my hospital was being sold and my job was to be outsourced.

I took this as a signal to make my move.

A class action lawsuit between the county and the buyer stopped the sale cold and my job was safe but I had just bought the home…

I’ve had several excellent renters and two not…

Both not had tribal funds for rent…

I’ve never had any previous experience with tribal funds and the property manager assured me tribal funds are not unusual in Washington State.

After the last experience I’m gun shy.

The home was turn key when the last renter moved in… and in 3 months trashed…

 

[Dftodd]

Friend in the business gets service calls unit down and some are because of the disconnect.

I couldn’t remove the meter at a vacant rent house so I had service turned off… $600 electric for a vacant home with not a clue on my end… property manager said nothing was on except refrigerator.

I still need to investigate for myself but 800 miles away makes it problematic at the moment.

I had my water bill quadruple one month. This was way before smart meters.

I called the water company and asked about it.

She got pretty defensive over the meter reader.

But I was trying to convey that someone transposed a number because what they had listed for the reading was way over what the actual reading was.

They finally sent someone over to get a current reading and realized I was right.

I had just over a 3 month credit with the water company.

I found out later why the lady was so defensive about the meter reader.

The meter reader was a team. Father and special needs son. The son read the meters, the father drove and recorded the numbers the son called out.