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Why Livable
From Chaos to Control: A Better Way to Manage Utilities
Livable brings bill intake, cost allocation, resident statements, and support into one clearer utility administration workflow.
AI-Powered Bill Acquisition
Automatically acquire and extract utility bills with accuracy, eliminating manual data entry, reducing missed invoices, and saving your team hours each month.
Flexible Cost Recovery
Allocate shared utility expenses fairly and transparently, with flexible self-service or full-service billing automation that keeps you in control and supports NOI growth.
Resident Transparency & Conservation
Give residents clear, easy-to-understand utility statements that build trust, encourage conservation, reduce billing disputes, and support sustainability goals.
Solutions
The core of Livable’s utility workflow: from operations to cost recovery to billing
Utility Billing & Cost Recovery
Recover shared utility costs with clearer allocation and less revenue leakage.
Property Manager Dashboard
Review charges and billing activity without disconnected spreadsheets or manual handoff.
Tenant Connect
Give residents one place to view statements, pay online, and stay current on utility activity.
Portal experiences
Two portals, one connected utility workflow.
Explore the PM Portal
Review utility activity, adjust billing details, approve charge batches, and keep portfolio recovery visible without spreadsheet handoffs.
Explore the Tenant Portal
Give residents a transparent place to view statements, understand charges, pay online, and get support in the language they need.
More utility workflows are on the roadmap.
AP Automation
Automate more of the utility invoice intake and approval workflow before costs move into billing.
Benchmarking
Compare utility performance across properties and spot outliers with clearer portfolio context.
Utility Analytics
Turn utility activity into practical insights for cost recovery, conservation, and planning.
Billing options
You have options.
Self Service
Manage billing independently, while monetizing the admin fee by passing it through to the tenant at a premium, subject to local ordinance.
- Allocation table generation, preview & batch charge approval
- Custom Tenant fees & utility opt-outs
- Utility & statement caps
- Final Statement Estimation (w/ daily proration)
Bill Automation
Delegate your billing to Livable, and get back to focusing on optimizing other aspects of your business. Monetize the admin fee, subject to local ordinance.
- All features from self-service
- Automatic data acquisition & entry
- Multi-lingual tenant support
- Spike alerts and billing adjustment management
3-Step Process
Setting Up Livable is Quick & Easy
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FAQ
Answers to the questions that usually show up before a consultation.
Livable provides utility administration and cost recovery support for residential and commercial properties by helping teams fairly divide and bill shared utility expenses.
RUBS stands for Ratio Utility Billing System. It is a widely used method for allocating shared utility costs when individual submeters are not installed.
Yes. Livable is positioned to work alongside property management software like AppFolio so resident data, unit details, and billing cycles are easier to keep in sync.
No. The goal is to reduce manual calculations, statement prep, and spreadsheet follow-up so teams can review charges without carrying the whole billing process by hand.
Livable is built around traceable statements and clearer billing communication, helping property teams operate with better visibility and less ambiguity around charges.
Residents can use Tenant Connect to view statements, pay online, set up automatic payments, and keep track of their utility activity.
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Latest Insights
The Utility Cost Mistake Most Landlords Make Without Realizing It
If you manage rental properties, you are probably already thinking about vacancy rates, maintenance costs, and tenant retention. But there is one line item most landlords overlook until it shows up as a quiet drag on their NOI. Utility costs. Not because landlords do not know utilities are expensive. But because most have never asked whether they are recovering those costs the way they should be.
What Happens to Your NOI When Utility Costs Spike? How Billing Protects Your Margins
Utility costs do not move in straight lines. Water rates rise. Energy costs spike seasonally. Municipal fees increase with little warning. For property managers who are absorbing utility costs without a billing strategy in place, every one of these increases lands directly on the bottom line. For operators with billing in place, the impact is different. Not painless, but significantly more manageable.
Colorado Just Made It Easier to Stop Paying Your Tenants' Utility Bills
For the past year, Colorado multifamily operators have been sitting on a question: is RUBS billing still viable here? That question now has a clear answer. Governor Polis signed House Bill 26-1013 on March 26, 2026, and it does something the industry has needed for a while. It formally confirms that Ratio Utility Billing Systems are legal in Colorado, lays out straightforward rules for how to use them correctly, and removes the uncertainty that has been keeping some property managers on the sidelines. If you have been absorbing utility costs because the legal picture felt murky, that picture just got a lot clearer.