Calculating STR Utilities!

[Tristyn Combs]

Hi all, how do you go about calculating utility costs for short-term rentals, specifically for an out-of-state market? Do you Google and/or contact utility companies in that town to get an average of utility costs based on a regular (long term) single-family home? 

Thanks!

[John Underwood]

I just put in $300 or $400 as a high guess and if that makes the property unprofitable then it wasn't a good property to start with.