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In Australia, the renter almost always pays the power bill (excepting share houses, usually students). It's hard to market "you'll spend less on power so that'

• mb7733 6y ago
  Of course it's not the headline on the rental ad, but that is a factor in what makes a rental property desirable. If you're not taking average utility bills into account when looking for a rental, you should be. Maybe this is more relevant in cold climates. As a student I once rented an old house where the heating oil bill would surpass the rent in the winter. I won't make that mistake again, even if the rent on the house is cheap. A self sufficient unit with 0 power bill would be pretty attractive to me as a tenant.
  • photojosh 6y ago
    My experience with renting (up until 2 years ago) was always that demand exceeded supply and so we couldn't put things like appliance energy efficiency into the must-have list. And yeah, in quite a temperate part of Australia here... cooling is more important than heating.