This was the program I was trying to use - https://www.metersave.org/Mete... yeah thats the program every time i put in my information it rejected me... now its closed so the city is just having fun with the racket... i'm paying 400 bucks a month for water and sewer even though another building that has a meter is 75 a month for similar occupancy and usage

Wholesitc veiw is needded when evalauting Detroit rental property (Acquisition,Class of Renter, Area (as it relates to city plan hergo enforcement efforts, repairs (lead abatement, asbestos,saftey))Yes property taxes are increasing significantly as values in some Detroit areas are seeing double digit % increase year over year and you likely are experiencing that similar to @Greg Scotts comments.From my years of experience with Detroit and fighting property tax violations (1-8) the city board of review is a joke, Michigan tax tribunal is a racket, best bet is a real estate attorney that specializes in fighting DETROIT property taxes.

In one case, the tenants the landlord rented to apparently has a food truck, gets up early every day and makes a racket.

Roosters make one hell of a racket and neighbors will complain.

ESA's are another racket entirely.

The homeless problem has actually turned into a racket with everyone feeding at the troft. 

I'm just leaving insurance out of it as I would still need to pay the deductible and then my rates would go up in perpetuity (what a racket). 

Armando Montelongo Faces Civil RICO Law Suit under the federal Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO") on behalf of 164 former students of "Flip This House" star Armando Montelongo and his companies, alleging that the real estate mogul's educational offerings -- which cost up to tens of thousands of dollars, and which are attended by thousands of students every year -- do not live up to the central claim that the Montelongo "system works in any financial market, at any given time," and are instead the heart of a fraudulent scheme to sell students worthless "education."

It would be much more if I didn't, since they charge per swab.They really want the older areas revitalized, but with this kind of racket, I don't even look at older homes anymore.

Yes it’s money making racket like many areas of law, but that’s just another fact in the big scheme of things.