Is it reasonable to be told to pay the property fee when the house has been vacant for a long time?

Recently, a lawyer named Xiao Xiaolong is a fan. He said that he had some problems at work recently and needed to buy a house near a high-end residential area. But when he handed over the house, he found that his job could not adapt to the location of the house he bought. In this case, the house will be vacant normally, and he also thought about transferring it, but he has never found a suitable buyer, so the house has been idle.

One day, he suddenly received a lawyer's letter from the property management company, mainly saying that he needed to pay the property management fee as soon as possible, 6500 yuan per year, plus some interest during the three-year period, and * * * asked him to pay the property management fee of 20,000 yuan, otherwise the property management company would take him to court.

Later, the property management company took him to court. After hearing the case, the court held that the property company has provided residential property management services regardless of whether the owner actually lives, so it is necessary to pay this part of the property fee to the property company. However, he still felt that the judgment was unreasonable and appealed to the court of second instance to uphold the original judgment. However, in this case, more expenses need to be paid to continue the lawsuit, and the property company thinks that the judgment is very fair and reasonable.

According to the law, is this fan's money wrong? Actually, the answer is no! According to the Supreme People's Court's judicial interpretation on the trial of property disputes, in the case of property companies providing services, the suggestion that owners do not choose not to bear property fees because they do not enjoy them lacks factual and legal basis, and they should pay corresponding property fees.

Seeing this, some friends may ask, the defense reasons put forward by this fan are correct if they are considered from their own point of view! You clean yourself and open and close the door yourself. I didn't force you to do it, nor did I use the so-called "service" of the property management company. As the saying goes, we call this "excluding the river". But if you think about it carefully, you will understand that this idea is actually wrong.

Let me give you an example. If there are 500 owners in this campus, then the residential property will be assigned corresponding personnel for corresponding management according to the situation of 500 owners. His cost is also calculated according to this, and the price bureau will decide the cost of the property according to this. Suppose half the households don't live. How does the property management company provide services for the other 250 owners? Should we ensure cleaning and property maintenance according to the original quality? Or lower a level to provide property services?

Therefore, in this case, in order to balance the interests of all parties, it should be emphasized that whether to enjoy or not, only the delivery of the house is the watershed. Once the house is renamed, the new owner must pay the same property management fee.