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Originally Posted by Wormius
Aren’t most peoples water meters easy to check? If you have a water leak then it should pretty easy to at least recognize it before discovering it for the first time on your utility bill.
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Where I live you can sign up for leak detection. If your meter runs the city will notify you.
Few years back I had a tenant in my rental who told me that the toilet had a leak but that he would fix it. His fix was to turn the water off. His rent included the city utility of water/sewer/garbage. The basement had a flood and the restoration company must have had someone turn the water on to use it because by the time I got the notification and get the water shut off my bill was like double what it normally was. I think the city now has it so you can sign up and get it earlier. But this came in 15 days late for me at that time as they only did it at billing. Caught me off guard because for a few months the reading was normal, than spiked. I'm not someone who crashes into my tenants space every day to read a water meter or follow up on little repairs. So I can see how this catches someone off guard.