journo wrote: His invoices show the area of his unit, and that as a percentage of the total area of

I have a 1 bed apartment car rent orlando with 47 m2 covered and we were charged 480e per annum last year, a 2 bed with 84 m2 was charged 600e and to make matters worse a 2 bed villa with 119 m2 was also charged 600e.
On a seperate note has anyone noticed a rise in charges as i have been hit with a near 40% increase in communal charge for the upcoming year. We are now being asked to pay 660e plus an additional 100e for a contingency, we have never been asked for a seperate contingency and as i understand it a contingency is needed by law, so the company must of been seperating this out of the asked amount, the way i see it is that they have made it a seperate matter now so that they can state an increase car rent orlando of 37.5% and not 58% with the contingency factored in.
nigel thanks for the reply, if its covered and uncovered it makes matters worse as our apartment is completely covered and the villas have an additional 130m2 of uncovered car rent orlando area to add to the 119m2 covered yet was only paying 120e more a year.
As an individual owner who is expected to contribute to the maintenance of the common areas, you are entitled to know how the costs in your development have been decided. It doesn't matter that there may be villas car rent orlando and/or apartments on a development - what matters is that there are common areas that need maintaining.
nikcnet, thanks, i have been told by a member car rent orlando of the management company that - 'All of the minutes from the agm and finance information was sent out to all owners, can you advise if you did not receive this and I will check our records against emails and contact information we hold for you' -
I have been passed on the agm reports from the committee chairman and treasurer by another owner and reading through them there is no financial breakdown, it does say however that financial reports car rent orlando can be provided by ksl on request, yet as of my requests this seems harder than it claims.
wils81 wrote: nikcnet, thanks, i have been told by a member of the management company that - 'All of the minutes from the agm and finance information car rent orlando was sent out to all owners, can you advise if you did not receive this and I will check our records against emails and contact information we hold for you' -
I have been passed on the agm reports from the committee chairman and treasurer by another owner and reading through them there is no financial breakdown, it does say however that financial reports can be provided by ksl on request, yet as of my requests this seems harder than it claims.
The MC or other powers that be are obliged to send information to you. Strictly speaking this is meant to be every three months car rent orlando but in practical terms even if you get it half-yearly that has to be an improvement on nothing. car rent orlando You might also wish to ask for evidence that they have been managing the budget and looking for ways of containing and reducing costs - as opposed to simply paying bills on demand. car rent orlando In other words, car rent orlando look upon this as a micro business car rent orlando and expect some kind of accountability to the shareholders ( owners ).
The Management Committee is there for the day-to-day management and operation of the complex. They should have the accounts and they would have issued invitations car rent orlando to tender for the maintenance and upkeep of the complex and selected their chosen service provider.
I have managed to get hold of the committees email address and yesterday asked to see a business plan with expenses and their allocation, i have also asked to see this years communal charge per unit as the one i have is the previous years before the rise.
According to the chairman, they have no business plan as they are a cooperative organisation, the management company car rent orlando cannot be changed as the developers originally signed car rent orlando a 3 year contract with them, therefore no tenders car rent orlando can go out until next year.
Beware car rent orlando ... regardless of what the 'committee by-laws' car rent orlando think they say, this is contrary to Cyprus law and you could challenge them to provide evidence of legal justification for the way they choose to operate.
Seems reasonable logic, even if unlawful, to charge based on the number car rent orlando of bedrooms. More bedrooms NORMALLY means more people using communal facilities and I presume that is the same reasoning used for m2 (the bigger the property car rent orlando then normally more people will be using the facilities).
Even though m2 is the law and makes perfect sense there are grey areas like gardens, parking spaces and determining the actual sizes of covered and uncovered areas etc. Number of bedrooms car rent orlando is often chosen as the simplest method car rent orlando of allocating communal car rent orlando fees without going to the expense of obtaining precise (as built) sizes.
There will always be somebody that feels the cost allocation is not equitable and that some of the grey areas involved in using m2 warrant a long drawn out court case. Until title deeds are issued covered and uncovered areas are not known with certainty as developer sizes are only a guide.
If the majority of owners choose a specific method of allocation, perhaps because it is easier to calculate (like number of bedrooms) car rent orlando I see no reason why the actual 'law' of allocating car rent orlando on m2 matters.
Byker it's all very frustrating but your problem is slightly different, you have the bigger property and by law it seems are paying too much, my problem is not just little margins, we have the smallest sized unit of the development, there are quite a few that are 3 times bigger than ours and yet only pay 25% more in communal fees!
On his complex there are, for example, one-bedroomed flats which are larger in terms of square metres than others with two bedrooms; and two-bedroomed flats of all different sizes (because of separate kitchens or not, second bathrooms or not etc. etc. )
The developer should have registered car rent orlando the building as being jointly-owned with the Land Registry and this registration will have included the percentage allocation of each of the units to be used for determining contributions to the insurance, maintenance, etc of the common areas.
journo wrote: His invoices show the area of his unit, and that as a percentage of the total area of all units on the complex. He then is charged that percentage of the total costs as his Common Parts.
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