Many apartments in Belmont include water and garbage fee in rent, while Oxford Apartments only covers garbage fee. Water bill is pro-rated per tenant and it's almost $70 each month per person. This is a crazy number for water bill and I believe the main reason is because all the water used in the community (like swimming pool, laundry, etc) is billed to tenants (although before renting the apartment I was told that water in common area is paid by the management and only water used inside each apartment is pro-rated and billed to tenants). This is actually cheating!
After adding the water charge on top of the rent, it is no more cheap living here...For example, if the manager tells you the rent is $1200, then remember you actually need to pay about $1270 (excluding other utility) for the rent...So be really careful about this place...