Real Estate Chargeback Solutions helps multi-unit landlords, room-rental operators, and property managers recover water, sewer, trash, electric, and gas costs from tenants — through a properly structured, documented chargeback billing system.
When one utility account covers multiple tenants — or a landlord pays utilities for a room-rental property — the costs add up fast and the recovery path isn't obvious. Here's where landlords consistently leave money behind.
Master-metered water and sewer accounts cover every unit — but the bill lands on you. Without a chargeback structure, there's no mechanism to pass it through.
Multi-unit and room-rental properties often have trash in the owner's name. Tenants have no reason to conserve — and you absorb every dollar.
PadSplit-style rentals, multi-unit buildings, and properties with shared meters mean landlords quietly absorb electric costs that belong to tenants.
Older multi-unit buildings with one gas account leave owners covering heat and hot water for every tenant — month after month, with no recovery path.
Real Estate Chargeback Solutions handles the invoicing — you just forward the bill. Here's the full cycle from initial setup through ongoing monthly recovery.
We review your current lease language, utility account setup, and billing history to confirm what's recoverable under Oregon law and structure the chargeback correctly.
Each billing cycle, you send us the utility bill electronically — directly from the provider or forwarded from your inbox. That's your only ongoing task.
We produce fully documented tenant invoices based on your bill — itemized, compliant, and ready to deliver. You get the invoices to send; we handle all the math and paperwork.
You deliver the invoices and collect from your tenants directly. We invoice our 15% fee based on the utility bill received — separate from whatever your tenants pay you.
Real Estate Chargeback Solutions is built for situations where one utility bill covers multiple tenants — and the owner is the one absorbing it.
Duplexes, triplexes, apartment buildings, and any property where one utility account covers multiple units — these are the core use case. Real Estate Chargeback Solutions audits your leases, builds the allocation structure, and handles the tenant invoicing every cycle.
When you rent by the room, utilities stay in your name and you pay the full bill. Real Estate Chargeback Solutions builds a compliant per-room chargeback system — so you're recovering utility costs from every occupant, not absorbing them across the whole property.
Your clients with multi-unit or master-metered properties are losing money to utility costs they don't realize are recoverable. Real Estate Chargeback Solutions works alongside your operation to identify those opportunities and deliver documented tenant invoices — adding real value across your managed portfolio.
Real Estate Chargeback Solutions covers all major utility categories. Our fee is contingency-based — we only earn when you recover. There's nothing to pay upfront.
If you can identify it, you can charge it back.
15% of the utility bill you receive. Nothing more.
Our fee is 15% of the actual utility bills charged to your account — not a percentage of what you collect from tenants, not a retainer, not a monthly management fee. If the audit determines there's nothing recoverable under your current lease and local law, you owe nothing.
Example: if your water/sewer bill is $200/month and we build a chargeback system to recover it, our fee is $30. You net $170 per cycle — and that recurs every billing period.
Straightforward answers to what landlords and property managers ask most.
Real Estate Chargeback Solutions, LLC is a Portland metro-area service company focused exclusively on utility billing recovery for rental property owners and managers. We exist because landlords consistently leave recoverable utility costs on the table — not because they want to, but because the path to a compliant billing system isn't obvious.
Real Estate Chargeback Solutions is a member of the Best Landlord Ever family of companies, alongside BLE coaching and consulting, BLESS property support services, and SAS Homes property management. Our shared foundation is independent landlord empowerment — giving you the systems and knowledge to operate your portfolio professionally, without unnecessary intermediaries.
We work exclusively in the Portland metro area and bring direct knowledge of Oregon landlord-tenant law, local utility billing regulations, and the practical realities of operating rental properties in this market.
If you're absorbing utility costs — or you're not sure whether you are — reach out. We'll take a look at your situation, tell you what's recoverable, and explain exactly how the chargeback system would work for your properties. No pressure, no upfront commitment.
All billing is handled through QuickBooks invoicing outside this website. We'll walk you through the fee structure before anything is formalized.