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Dallas All Bills Paid Apartments
In short
All bills paid means the community pays some or all of your utilities and builds the cost into the rent. Which bills, and how much of each, differ from lease to lease. This guide, updated October 2026, lists what to confirm in writing and what Texas law says when the landlord holds the accounts.
Updated October 2026 · Source: Texas Property Code, Texas Water Code and U.S. Census Bureau definitions, checked October 2, 2026
What all bills paid usually covers
All bills paid, often shortened to ABP, means the community pays some or all of the utilities for your unit and builds the cost into the rent. You make one payment a month instead of several. The word “all” does not always mean every bill a household has, so the lease is what counts.
Ask the leasing office to list, bill by bill, what the rent includes, and check that the same list is written into the lease itself, not only in the ad.
- Electricity. The bill that moves most from month to month; in a Texas summer, air conditioning drives it. Ask whether it is fully included or capped.
- Water and sewer. Ask whether it is included, measured by a meter on your unit, or split among units by a formula. Each works differently, as explained below.
- Trash. Usually part of the package. Ask whether door-side pickup is a separate monthly charge.
- Gas. Only matters if the unit has a gas stove, water heater or furnace. Ask which appliances use it.
- Internet and TV. Sometimes bundled, sometimes a separate package. Ask the speed, and whether you may choose your own provider instead.
Caps, overages and the fine print
Some all bills paid leases put a monthly cap on one utility, most often electricity. Use more than the cap and you pay the difference. A cap turns a fixed bill back into a variable one in the hottest months, so read it as closely as the rent.
- Is any utility capped? At what amount, and how and when is an overage billed?
- Can the rent change during the lease if utility costs rise? Look for a utility adjustment clause.
- Are there limits on the thermostat, space heaters or extra appliances?
- What happens at renewal: does the same list of included utilities carry over?
When water is billed on its own
Even where most bills are included, water may be billed separately. Texas law treats the two ways of doing it differently.
- Submetered. A meter on your unit measures what you use. The Texas Water Code requires rules that make the owner keep submetering records available for the tenant to inspect, and it limits what the owner may charge beyond the utility’s own rates, taxes and surcharges to a small set of fees (section 13.503).
- Allocated. There is no meter on your unit; your share comes from a formula, such as floor area or the number of occupants. The rules under section 13.5031 require the lease to describe the calculation in writing and to state the average monthly bill per unit for the previous calendar year, and the owner must let tenants inspect the utility records during normal business hours.
If the lease shows either method, water is not included in your rent. Ask for last year’s average and add it before you compare.
If the landlord does not pay a bill
When the landlord furnishes a utility as part of your tenancy, the landlord may not interrupt it unless the interruption results from bona fide repairs, construction or an emergency, except as that section allows (Texas Property Code, section 92.008).
If the utility company cuts off service, or gives you written notice that it is about to, because the landlord did not pay a bill the lease says the landlord pays, the landlord is liable to you (Texas Property Code, section 92.301). The remedies in that section include paying the utility company yourself to keep or restore service and deducting that amount from your rent.
Keep any notice the utility company sends you, and tell the leasing office in writing the same day.
Comparing an all bills paid rent
An all bills paid rent looks higher than a rent without utilities, because it is several bills in one. To compare two places fairly, add the utilities you expect to pay to the rent of the one that does not include them.
Weigh what you gain against what you give up. You gain one predictable payment, no utility accounts to open when you arrive and nothing to close or transfer when you leave. You give up the choice of provider and plan, and, in a lease with a cap, part of the predictability you were paying for.
The U.S. Census Bureau solves the same problem the same way. Its gross rent is contract rent plus the estimated monthly cost of electricity, gas, water and sewer and other fuels when the renter pays them, so that rents can be compared whether or not utilities are included (ACS Subject Definitions, 2024). That is why the Census figures on the Dallas page are labeled as including utilities.
When the bills are in your name instead, our utilities guide for Dallas covers electricity providers and internet.
Communities that include utilities
A community appears in this list only after it has told us which utilities its rent includes, and the entry shows the date we confirmed it. Utility terms can change at renewal, so we confirm again before any community goes on your list. Until a community we work with has confirmed, this list stays empty.
Tell us your budget and the area you want, and say that you want utilities included. We will ask each community for its list of included bills and any cap before we send it to you.
Communities with bills in the rent
The Addison
built 1963 1 bedroom
from $1,200 a month (listed October 9, 2026)
Ask us first
listed as included: all bills paid
2800 Taylor
built 2024 studio to 2 bedrooms
from $1,883 a month (listed October 9, 2026)
Ask us first
listed as included: cable, gas, trash, water, electric
Bishop North
built 2022 1 and 2 bedrooms
from $1,669 a month (listed October 9, 2026)
1 month free on a 12-month lease + a same-day offer
Ask us first
listed as included: cable, gas, trash, electric
Burnett Lofts at Bishop Ridge
built 2025 1 and 2 bedrooms
from $1,410 a month (listed October 9, 2026)
2 months free on a 12-month lease
Ask us first
listed as included: cable, trash, water, electric
Confirm on the lease which bills are included and whether there is a cap (Texas Water Code §13.503 for submetered or allocated water).
Rents and specials change often. These figures come down 30 days after the date shown. If that date is more than 30 days old, contact us for today’s price and special.
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Lease through us at a participating community, on a lease of 12 months or more, and choose 3 hours of moving with 2 movers and a truck, or cash: $400 if you found the place and registered it with us first, $200 if we search for you. Under $1,200 rent: $200 cash.
- Participating communities only.
- Rewards apply only at participating communities.
- Check with us first.
- Before you visit, call or apply, ask us. We confirm in writing whether your community participates and what your reward is.
- We pay when the community pays us.
- Cash is sent after the community pays our fee, usually 30 to 90 days after you move in.
Sources
Laws and definitions on this page were checked on October 2, 2026.
- Texas Property Code, section 92.008 (interruption of utilities)
- Texas Property Code, section 92.301 (landlord liability to tenant for utility cutoff)
- Texas Water Code, sections 13.503 (submetering) and 13.5031 (nonsubmetered billing)
- U.S. Census Bureau: American Community Survey 2024 Subject Definitions, “Gross rent”
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