After the roof of the fourth floor leaks and someone repairs it, do the residents downstairs spend money to repair it? We are an independent building and there is no property here.

The use of maintenance funds has little to do with the existence of the property.

The Ministry of Construction 165 Order "Measures for the Management of Special Maintenance Funds for Residential Buildings" clearly stipulates in Articles 3 and 20 that if the roof belongs to the owner's * * use area in a single house, it shall be shared by the relevant owners according to the proportion of their own property construction area.

Accordingly, the maintenance cost of water leakage at the top of the fourth floor should be borne by three owners on the fourth floor and downstairs, but the consent of four owners is generally required before maintenance. Because Article 22 of this method and the Property Law clearly stipulate that the use of special maintenance funds for property must be approved by the owners whose exclusive construction area accounts for more than two-thirds of the total area and accounts for more than two-thirds of the total number.

Therefore, according to the above, the downstairs house should bear the corresponding proportion of roof maintenance costs, but it can refuse to pay without prior consultation.

Similarly, in the future, if high-rise facilities such as sewer pipes and water seepage on the downstairs exterior wall need maintenance, the fourth floor will also bear the corresponding proportion of maintenance costs.