What is a housing maintenance fund? How to use the housing maintenance fund?

After buying a house, everyone is concerned about the quality of the house. If there are quality problems such as water leakage, the house needs maintenance. At this time, everyone will think of the housing maintenance fund paid when buying a house. So what is the housing maintenance fund? How to use the housing maintenance fund?

1. What is a housing maintenance fund?

Housing maintenance fund actually includes housing public facilities special fund and housing maintenance fund. The special fund for housing public facilities shall be used for projects such as the renovation of property parts and public facilities and equipment, and shall not be used for other purposes. Earmarking is the principle of "money goes with the house". When the house is transferred, the remaining funds in the account are also transferred to the new owner of the house.

2. What is the proportion of the housing maintenance fund?

When selling commercial housing, the purchaser and the selling unit shall sign the relevant maintenance fund payment agreement, and the purchaser shall pay the maintenance fund to the selling unit according to the proportion of 2-3% of the purchase price. The maintenance fund collected by the selling unit belongs to all owners and is not included in the residential sales income. The current deposit standards of the first special maintenance fund are: 90 yuan per square meter for high-rise buildings (including multi-storey buildings with elevators) and 50 yuan per square meter for multi-storey buildings (including villas).

Third, how to use the housing maintenance fund?

(a) maintenance of public facilities, the owners share the cost or use the maintenance fund?

Mr. Zhang from a residential area called and said that the monitoring equipment in their residential area needs to be updated. The property management company said that the cost problem can be shared with each owner 100 yuan, or solved by using the maintenance fund. With the maintenance fund in the community, is it appropriate for the owners to share the maintenance costs of public facilities?

If the property management company needs to use the maintenance fund, it must first apply for the purpose and amount, and then get the application form. After more than two-thirds of the owners of the community sign and agree, the center will send special personnel to the site to check and verify that there is no problem, and then allocate funds according to the procedures. The procedure of obtaining 2/3 owner's consent must go. The key is that the operation process is too difficult, and the time will drag on for a long time, especially for property companies serving large communities.

(two) the use of maintenance funds is complex and difficult to operate.

Although the majority of owners can understand this result, they always feel that it is not a good solution. Like the residential area where Mr. Zhang lives, 1600-odd homeowners need the consent of two-thirds of them, and it will not take a day or two. In some communities built earlier, public facilities have entered the renovation and maintenance period, and residential property companies have also begun to apply for special maintenance funds.

Property people said that in recent years, the scale of residential areas built in cities is generally relatively large, and the occupancy rate is not too high. Even if we can find two-thirds of the owners of a building, everyone is willing to sign it, and it will take weeks or even months. However, in order to follow this procedure, property companies often have to spend a lot of manpower and material resources (such as telephone bills) to contact the owners and explain the reasons for applying for maintenance funds. Sometimes, the cost of communication is even higher than that of maintenance itself. Although some developers are willing to pay for property maintenance fees in the early stage, most properties that have passed the warranty period will not subsidize the maintenance fees. The maintenance of public parts and public facilities in residential areas is in front of property management enterprises and owners.

(3) How to use the housing maintenance fund, the government needs to use the policy flexibly.

Maintenance Fund The government has set up strict examination and approval procedures for maintenance fund applications to protect the interests of individual residents. In the actual operation process, the rigid regulations agreed by more than two-thirds of the owners sometimes bring a lot of inconvenience. For example, in the case of a rain leak at home, if you follow the procedure completely, it will delay a lot of things.

In view of this situation, some provinces and cities have adopted flexible implementation methods. For example, some cities stipulate that all neighbors do not need to sign when using special maintenance funds for houses where citizens have purchased property rights. After receiving the form from the municipal housing security center, the citizens will find a suitable construction team to budget, allocate the total budget to each household according to the construction area of each household in the building, fill in the application form for the use of the self-managed public housing maintenance fund, and post it downstairs for 5 days. During the publicity period, if no residents raise objections or objections are not established, special maintenance funds can be used according to procedures. If some residents feel that the budget for repairing houses is too high, they can also find another construction team with reasonable prices.

With the frequent renovation of public facilities in many residential areas, 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 be flexible in procedures, it will certainly bring great convenience to the general public.