Last year, the owners charged fees indiscriminately. Can the property fees be offset this year?

Owners who collected fees last year can use this year's property fees to offset them.

Regulations on Property Charges In order to further standardize the charging behavior of property services, improve the transparency of property service charges, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of owners and property management enterprises, and promote the healthy development of the property management industry, these regulations are formulated in accordance with the Price Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), the Regulations on Property Management and the Provisions on Clearly Marking Goods and Services.

Property management companies providing services to owners, including providing property services in accordance with the property service contract and providing services other than those stipulated in the property service contract entrusted by the owners, shall clearly mark the price in accordance with these Provisions, and indicate the service items and charging standards. Property management companies should follow the principles of openness, fairness, honesty and credit, and abide by national price laws, regulations, rules and policies.

The competent price department of the government shall, jointly with the real estate department at the same level, manage the property service charges with a clear price tag. The competent price department of the government shall supervise and inspect the implementation of the provisions on clearly marked prices by property management enterprises, and the clearly marked prices of property management enterprises shall be complete, true, eye-catching and clear.

The clearly marked price of property service charges includes: the name of the property management enterprise, the charging object, service content, service standard, charging method, charging start time, charging items, charging standard, price management form, charging basis, price reporting telephone number 12358, etc. The implementation of government-guided property service charges, should also indicate the benchmark charges, floating range and actual charges.

Property management companies can set up billboards and billboards in prominent positions or charging places in their service areas. The fee schedule, fee list, fee manual and multimedia terminal inquiry shall be clearly marked.