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Parthasarathy Balraj   10 November 2023

How to calculate legal monthly maintenance for gated community (villa and apartments)?

Hello,

I would like to know some clarification about the maintenance charges calculation in a gated community in coimbatore(Tamil nadu). If a community plan has Villa and Apartments together.

1) What is the correct legal way to calculate the monthly maintenance charges for Villa and Apartments.

2) Is Lift maintenance charges to be paid by specific apartments owners or that is included in the maintenance charges itself.  For lift multiple things are there like (AMC, License renewal, Insurance, Rapair) which one should be covered by monthly maintanance and specifc to apartment owners.

3) Amenties (park, road, club house, etc) constructured by builder and collected different ratio of amounts from flat and villa owners and not divided by no of units(flat and villas). So what is the correct distribution radio of amount for building new amenties or repairing amenties for Villa and Apartments. 

Thank you.



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 2 Replies

kavksatyanarayana (subregistrar/supdt.(retired))     10 November 2023

The structure of the maintenance charge differs from one society to another and from state to state. The maintenance charges range anywhere between Rs. 2 to Rs. 25 per SFT or maybe even higher depending on the city, locality and the status of the apartment.

T. Kalaiselvan, Advocate (Advocate)     11 November 2023

Ideally, maintenance costs are charged per square meter of the unit or apartment. Fees for services such as cleaning, garbage collection, use of equipment, repair and maintenance of common facilities such as elevators are shared equally among all unit residents. However, utility costs (water and electricity) are billed according to individual usage.

But the law doesn’t concern itself with the issues of fair levying of charges as per the size of the residence and the utility of services. However, since the co-operative is a collaborative effort, every resident’s grievance or discomfort is duly noted and rightly resolved by the use of different calculation systems. A few of them are given below:

charges based on per square feet 

equal fee

Hybrid fee;

 

The charges can be categorically divided as shown below:

Service charges, parking charges, non occupancy charges, sinking fund, property tax, insurance charges, lease/rent charges, 

Other charges as decided by the governing body of the society as and when needed.


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