Is it necessary to pay the special maintenance fund for the property every year?

No, the maintenance fund is paid when buying a house and needs to be paid in one lump sum. After paying the maintenance fund, the daily maintenance fund of the community will be in place. Housing warranty expires, the need to transform the community public facilities, you can use the housing maintenance fund. Moreover, when using the maintenance fund, it is necessary to obtain the consent of the owners' meeting, and it can only be used after obtaining the consent of more than two-thirds of the owners. The housing maintenance fund is used for large and medium-sized repair and renovation projects of the main structure, public parts and public facilities and equipment of the house after the warranty period expires.

The main load-bearing structures of houses include foundation, internal and external load-bearing walls, columns, beams, floors and roofs. Public parts refer to outdoor walls, hallways, stairwells, corridors, etc. Public facilities and equipment refer to water supply and drainage pipelines and equipment, distribution cables and equipment, elevators, public lighting, fire-fighting facilities, green spaces, roads, ditches, non-operating parking garages, public cultural and sports facilities and other facilities and equipment owned and used by the owner. The maintenance fund is managed by the Housing Authority, and the application process is complicated.

1. The private automatic maintenance foundation was sued and faced with corresponding compensation. Because the maintenance fund is the maintenance fund for public parts and facilities and equipment of residential buildings, it can only be used with the approval of the owners' meeting, otherwise it cannot be used for other purposes.

2. The maintenance fund is mainly used for * * * major repairs and renovation of equipment and facilities after the warranty period of the property expires. If the public * * * maintenance fund is used, it shows that there are serious problems in the houses or facilities of this building, which will be difficult to appreciate and realize in the future.

Legal basis:

Measures for the administration of residential special maintenance funds

1. The owners of commercial housing and non-residential housing shall deposit special housing maintenance funds according to the construction area of their own property, and the amount of the first special housing maintenance funds deposited per square meter of construction area is 5% to 8% of the local housing construction and installation project cost per square meter.

The competent departments of construction (real estate) of the people's governments of municipalities directly under the central government, cities and counties shall, according to local conditions, reasonably determine and announce the amount of the first-phase residential special maintenance fund deposited per square meter of construction area, and make timely adjustments.

2, the sale of public housing, residential special maintenance funds deposited in accordance with the following provisions:

(1) The owner shall deposit the residential special maintenance fund according to the construction area of the property owned, and the amount of the first residential special maintenance fund deposited per square meter of construction area shall be 2% of the local housing reform cost price.

(two) units selling houses shall, in accordance with the proportion of multi-storey residential buildings and high-rise residential buildings, not less than 20% and 30% respectively, extract special maintenance funds from houses.