Optimize Allowances. Maximize Compliance. Support Affordability.
Utility allowances directly shape your rents, compliance status, and resident satisfaction. Zeffert delivers the precision you need to ensure every dollar is backed by credible data. Inaccurate allowances reduce rent potential—or worse, invite audit findings.
Why It Matters
Utility miscalculations can erode operating income or impose unjustified tenant burdens. Whether you’re calculating new construction baselines or updating Actual Use studies, your utility strategy is a financial strategy.
What Zeffert Provides and How It Helps You
Zeffert provides a full spectrum of utility allowance services tailored to your portfolio’s financing, region, and occupancy patterns. From engineering-driven baselines to statistically sound Actual Use studies, we help you balance resident affordability with financial sustainability—boosting eligible basis while guarding compliance.
- Actual Use Method: sampling, analysis, and consumption modeling
- HUD Utility Schedule Model (HUSM): climate- and spec-based estimates
- Baseline studies for new construction and rehab
- Narrative support and submittal-ready packages for PHAs, HFAs, and investors
“When you get utility allowances right, you protect residents—and rents. That’s where smart data becomes strategic return.” —Jeffrey Promnitz, CEO
