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Originally Posted by Blresident
Thank you for your response. Yes I meant common facilities like watchman, housekeeping, lifts and pumps.
We have 50 apartments - 8 of these are 2000 sqft and the 42 are 1300 sqft in built up area. The smaller apts want everyone to pay by per sqft rule and the larger apts want to pay by a combination method - part of charges fixed per apt and part related to sqft. They feel this is a more fair way to distribution of common facilities expenses.
What should be a fair way of charging the apartments? Do we have any examples of apartments using each method?
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Dear friend,
The most practiced and common way of sharing the maintanence charges for the project with 50 flats etc. is normally on per sq. ft. basis. In your case, there are only 8 nos. of 2000 sq. ft. flats and 42 are of 1300 sq. ft., being the majority, they may insist on per sq. ft. Better deliberate in your association meeting for charging same rate per flat irrespective of sq. ft. and you can put forth the arguments like less or same number of persons living in the larger flats and the floor numbers if they are lower floors for the larger flats ( say 1st or 2 nd etc. if they are so, which may mean lower use of lift etc. etc. which I do not know to what extent will carry water with the majority. I know of a friend of mine in GF in a G+3 floor flats project, very rarely uses the lift, but pays for the facility. Even those residing in the I floor do not use the lift much, they would rather climb up the stairs rather than waiting for the lift. Most people using the lifts are milk men, news paper boys, house maids, vegetable vendors, post man, courier, water can chaps, children going to the terrace for play etc. etc. in addition to the tenants. But every one need to share the common charges.
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