What is a Home Repair Fund? How to use the house repair fund?
After buying a house and moving in, everyone is concerned about the quality of the house. If there are quality problems such as rain or water leakage, the house will need repairs. At this time, everyone will think of the house maintenance fund paid when buying a house. So what is a home repair fund? How to use the house repair fund?
1. What is the House Repair Fund?
The house maintenance fund actually includes a special fund for house public facilities and a house maintenance fund. The special fund for housing public facilities is used for projects such as the renewal and renovation of the public parts of the property, public facilities and equipment, and shall not be used for other purposes. The special fund implements the principle of "money goes with the house;" when the house is transferred, the remaining funds in the account will also be transferred to the new property owner of the house.
2. The payment ratio of the house maintenance fund is How much?
When selling a commercial house, the buyer and the seller should sign an agreement on the payment of maintenance funds. The buyer should pay the maintenance fund to the seller at a rate of 2-3% of the purchase price. The maintenance base metal collected by the housing unit is owned by all owners and is not included in the residential sales income. The current standard for depositing the first phase of special maintenance funds is: 90 yuan/square meter for high-rise buildings (including multi-storey buildings with elevators). Multi-storey (including villas) 50 yuan/square meter.
3. How to use the house maintenance fund?
(1) Should the owner pay for the maintenance of public facilities or use the maintenance fund? /p>
Mr. Zhang from a certain community called and said that the monitoring equipment in their community needs to be updated. The property company said that the cost can be solved by sharing 100 yuan per household or using the maintenance fund. If the community has a maintenance fund, is it appropriate to let the owners share the maintenance costs of public facilities?
If the property management company needs to use the maintenance fund, it must first submit an application for the purpose and amount, and then receive the application. According to the form, after more than 2/3 of the owners of the community sign and agree, the center will send special personnel to the site to inspect and verify that there are no problems, and then allocate funds according to the procedures. The key is the difficulty of the operation process. If there is too much, it will take a long time, especially for property companies that serve large communities.
(2) The procedures for using maintenance funds are complicated and the operation is difficult.
Although the majority of property owners can understand this result, they still feel that it is not a good solution. In the community where Mr. Zhang lives, there are more than 1,600 property owners, and it takes more than a day or two to obtain the consent of 2/3 of them. It can be solved. In some communities that were built earlier, the public facilities have entered the period of renovation and maintenance, and the community property companies have also begun to have difficulties applying for special maintenance funds.
Property people said that in recent years. The scale of residential communities built in cities is generally relatively large, and the permanent occupancy rate is not too high. Even if you can find 2/3 of the owners of a building and everyone is willing to sign, it will take weeks or even months. However, in order to do this. Procedures, property companies often spend a lot of manpower and material resources (such as phone calls) to contact owners to explain the reasons for applying for maintenance funds. In some cases, the cost of contact is even higher than the cost of the maintenance itself. Business owners are willing to pay for property maintenance in the early stage, but most of them will no longer subsidize maintenance costs for properties that have passed the warranty period. The problem of repairing common parts of the community and public facilities is now faced by property management companies and owners.
(3) How to use the housing maintenance fund, the government needs to use policies flexibly
The government has set up a strict approval process for the maintenance fund application in order to protect the personal rights of residents. Benefit. In the actual operation process, the rigid regulations agreed by more than 2/3 of the owners have sometimes caused a lot of inconvenience. For example, if you encounter an emergency situation where the house is leaking, if you follow the procedures exactly, it will delay a lot of things.
In response to this situation, some provinces and cities have adopted flexible implementation methods. For example, some cities stipulate that when citizens use special maintenance funds for houses that have purchased property rights, they do not require the signature of all neighbors. After receiving the form from the Municipal Housing Security Center, citizens can find a suitable engineering team to make a budget, allocate the total budget amount to each household according to the building area of ??each household in the building, and fill out the "Purchased Self-Managed Public Housing Maintenance Fund Use Application Form" 》After that, it was posted downstairs for 5 days of publicity.
During the publicity period, if no residents raise objections or the objections are not established, the special maintenance fund can be used according to the procedures. If some residents think that the budget for house repairs is too high, they can also find another construction team with reasonable prices.
As public facilities in many communities enter a period of high repair, the use of special housing maintenance funds will also increase. If we can learn from the experience of some successful provinces and cities on the premise of ensuring the safety of maintenance funds, and make the procedures more flexible, it will definitely bring great convenience to the general public.
The above are the answers to related questions about what is a house repair fund and how to use it. The Home Buying Guide hereby reminds consumers that it is easier to pay for the home maintenance fund, because once the home has passed the warranty period and problems arise, it will be difficult for the developer to take responsibility. Therefore, it is very necessary to understand the relevant knowledge of house repair funds to understand the rights enjoyed by home buyers according to law and to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests when necessary.
Legal basis:
Article 281 of the "People's Republic of China and Civil Code" The maintenance funds for buildings and ancillary facilities belong to the owner *** . With the consent of the owner, it can be used for the repair, renewal and renovation of elevators, roofs, exterior walls, barrier-free facilities and other parts. The collection and use of maintenance funds for buildings and ancillary facilities should be announced regularly.
If it is necessary to repair a building and its ancillary facilities in an emergency, the owners' meeting or owners' committee may apply for the use of maintenance funds for the building and its ancillary facilities in accordance with the law.