As a matter of fact modern meters, if I am not mistaken, are readable electronically.

I have not seen the meter reader get out of the truck in YEARS. Gas meter either. I believe there is a transmitter in the new ones that they just have to drive around and get in the range of signals of the meters they want to check up on.

Allowing a raid is not an entirely bad idea (well my attorney would say otherwise!) lol, believe me, when I bailed, I was thinking to myself, lol, come and get me, Big Brother!

You gotta do what you gotta do.

Surveillance camera?
That would sketch them out even more... someone applying for utilities aid and then turning around and spending all that dough on a security system? I priced them out...it's not pretty.