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When calculating the amount of utility bills, not only the size of the living space is taken into account, but also how many citizens are registered in it
Does the number of people registered affect the rent? It's no secret that payments for utility services are calculated based on the square footage of the property and the number of registered people.
However, some services are charged based on the parameters of individual meters. Owners install these devices in apartments at their own expense.
Lately, this has been a fairly common way to save money for owners who have many people living in their apartments.
It is important to understand that the responsibility to regularly pay utility bills rests with the property owner. In exceptional cases, obligations, through contracts, are assigned to the tenants.
Does the number of people registered affect the rent? Let's take a closer look.
general information
In accordance with the law, each apartment owner must pay bills for services provided no later than the agreed date
According to Art. 155 of the Housing Code, the legislation defines the obligation of the property owner to pay for the services of companies no later than the tenth of the month, monthly.
The same law is fundamental for the procedure for calculating payment for housing and resources provided by management companies.
As a rule, the amount of payments is commensurate with the amount of consumption of a particular service.
But, when individual accounting devices are not installed in the residential premises, charges are made according to approved standards for each registered person per month. Does the number of people registered in an apartment affect the rent?
That is, the more people are registered, the higher the communal apartment will become. It does not matter here whether the persons are registered temporarily or permanently.
During their registration you will have to pay separately for all services provided. Exceptions will be made for some receipt items if there are meters.
The total payment for housing and communal services depends on several indicators:
- real estate square footage;
- payment tariff;
- number of registered persons;
- the presence of special counters.
There are always indicators that are taken into account only by the counter. Here, payment is made for the amount of service consumed per month. For example, electricity.
But, some indicators are calculated based on the number of registered people.
Dependence of the quarterly fee on the number of people
As a rule, in the absence of numerical devices, owners have to pay based on the number of people whose residence is officially registered. After new persons are registered as apartments, the minimum payment is automatically changed (increased). Therefore, in order to save money, citizens try to immediately remove from apartment registration persons who do not actually live on the square meters. This is especially true for landlords providing housing under a commercial lease agreement.
How are payments for services made?
Payments for utility services are calculated according to tariffs approved by regional authorities
Recently, for city residents, the topic of calculating rent is probably the most popular.
In order to understand how accruals occur, you need to understand: for what and from what calculation the payment is made.
The first thing that is important is the types of services, they can be:
- utilities;
- housing.
The first includes the supply of resources necessary for a person. They make up about seventy percent of the entire payment.
Consumption per unit is paid at certain tariffs, which are approved by regional authorities. Usually this happens once a year.
It should be understood that they do not depend on who the payer is: the owner or the tenant. All payments are calculated using the same rules for everyone.
How to determine the share of each registered person
Determine each person’s share of payment for services by calculation
Does the rent depend on the number of people registered? Sometimes it is important for the owner to determine how much he needs to pay for a particular tenant.
It is important to understand that the share will be calculated approximately; it is impossible to track for each person how much he spent for a particular service.
To determine it, you need to divide the total amount for each appliance and rent by the total number of registered people.
This is the share of one registered person. It is possible to calculate simply by dividing the total payment amount among all registered persons in equal quantities. If there are meters, it is impossible to determine by eye how much each tenant individually burned light, consumed water or gas.
Therefore, the share will be approximate. It is possible to allocate shares more accurately if there are no meters, and payment for services is charged according to standards for each registered person.
Does the number of people registered affect the rent, and how exactly?
How does the number of people registered affect the rent? Let us consider in detail exactly what indicators and reasons will influence the amount of payment when registering additional persons.
Of course, this amount will affect the rent in the absence of meters.
In this case, for example, if at first one person was registered in the premises and someone else registered, therefore, the payment for gas, hot and cold water will double.
When registering three people, triple the amount and so on. The maintenance of housing and heating will remain unchanged; they are calculated based on the square footage of the apartments. Therefore, the answer to the question of whether the number of registered people affects the rent is quite simple.
The price of such services depends on the number of registered people:
- electricity;
- gas;
- cold and hot water supply;
- garbage removal.
Other types of payments do not depend on the number of registered persons.
When there are meters, this eliminates the dependence of payments from registered people in the premises. Therefore, if special metering devices are installed in the premises, the list of utility bills that depend on the number of registered ones is significantly reduced.
Subsidies
On the territory of the Russian Federation, a list of beneficiaries has been established who may qualify for a reduction in the amount of deductions or the cancellation of certain types of financial obligations (for example, major repairs). These include pensioners, disabled people, large and low-income families.
A subsidy procedure is also provided. These are general preferences that property owners can count on. The essence of the program is to limit the amount of compensation depending on the total family income. If profits rise, then the amount of deductions for housing and communal services will increase.
If disputes arise with housing companies or service providers, you must file a claim in court to protect your rights.
Payment obligations
Responsibility for late payment of utilities rests entirely with the apartment owners
All service providers enter into contracts with the housing company or the owners themselves.
Based on the concluded document, it is the owner of the apartment who is responsible for non-payment of utility bills. This is regulated by Art. 153 of the Residential Code.
That is why every property owner must ensure that all service providers receive timely payments.
There are three options to force people registered in the apartment to pay for services:
- Personal accounts section. It is suitable if the question concerns relatives.
- Threaten to end your registration.
- Submit a claim to the court.
The last two methods are suitable for dealing with tenants. The property owner has the right to unilaterally terminate the contract at any time for failure to pay utility bills.
When going to court, the judge will order the tenants to pay the utility debt if the owner provides evidence of lack of payments.
To do this, you need to pay it yourself on your own behalf. Thus, it will be clear that the owner himself was forced to pay for utilities.
The payment is always generated and addressed to the owner of the apartment. Can be made for several persons.
Utility debt can be recovered using:
- sanctions;
- failure to provide services;
- lawsuit;
- eviction.
From the listed punishments, it is clear that there are enough methods to scare defaulters. The worst way is to lose your living space.
There are many ways to force landlords to pay their utility bills on time.
But it may be easy to avoid such a situation.
For tenants of a social apartment, it is enough not to pay for it for six months to find themselves in worse conditions, for example, in a communal apartment.
Penya
As noted above, an additional fine is imposed for the formation of arrears in payments. In order to eliminate the debt, many ways to pay for communications were provided. Citizens can use stationary terminals, online access, mobile banking (for example, from Sberbank), and payment desks. But even this range of options does not guarantee timely deposit of funds, therefore, from the next day after the deadline for payment, a penalty begins to be calculated.
Penalties are fixed by each provider separately, depending on local conditions. In some situations, late payments may not be subject to additional monetary penalties. If the property owner has unforeseen life circumstances that require a significant investment of funds, then you can submit a handwritten application to the service provider with a request to suspend deductions.
Special cases if no one is registered or registered, but no one lives
Quite often, parents purchase real estate for their growing child. For a long time it stands empty and waits for its owner.
What can you do with payments in this situation? The answer is clear and simple. Not paying at all is unlikely to work.
Again, heating and housing maintenance must be paid in any case. As for water, gas and electricity, it is better to install meters.
There will be no resource consumption, and therefore no payment needs to be made. Thus, it will be possible to minimize costs as much as possible.
You will still have to pay bills for an apartment in which no one lives, in order to reduce the amount of payments to a minimum - it is recommended to install meters
How are utility bills calculated if no one lives in the premises? Rent is still calculated and receipts are issued to this address.
In accordance with Art. 153 LCD owner is obliged to pay payments that are provided by the utility company.
This does not relieve him of the obligation to pay for services. However, there are ways in which you can reduce your housing costs.
When a person is registered at one address, but actually lives in another premises, then bills will still arrive.
In order to pay for utilities for people actually living, you will need to take a certificate from the location. It must be about where the person lives, then the payment will be increased at the place of his actual residence.
Along with the certificate, you need to write a corresponding application to the management companies. However, this is only beneficial when meters are not installed on the territory of registration.
After writing the application, payments will arrive edited. You should know that providing a certificate once will not be enough; this must be done once every six months.
Every person who purchases real estate for the future or wants to make money by registering people in their premises should understand the principle by which utility bills increase. He should also know ways to save on utilities.
Installing special metering devices for some types of services will help save a lot of money, regardless of the number of registered people.
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Discussion: 7 comments
- Alexey Igorevich says:
11/14/2016 at 03:48I advise everyone who has not yet installed water meters to do so as quickly as possible. The authorities have taken a course towards increasing prices for apartments without meters. For example, in the Sakhalin region, the fee for cold water in a one-room apartment where one person is registered already exceeds 400 rubles, how much in cubic meters you can calculate for yourself.
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- Irina says:
12/14/2016 at 00:46
My children and I are registered in my grandmother’s apartment, but I don’t actually live there, but for the three of us, me and two children, she pays extra for water, because there is no meter, but electricity is metered.
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- Anna says:
06/11/2017 at 03:47
I know from personal experience that it is pointless to sue housing and communal services and get anything from them. In any case, even if a person is registered and does not live there, you will have to pay for him. Of course, in this case, it is profitable to install meters and not worry about overpayment in the future.
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- Evgeniya says:
07/14/2017 at 23:17
In our building, they began to take into account the number of people registered in the apartment when calculating the electricity spent on lighting the entrances quite recently. Previously, they only counted the total number of square meters in all apartments in the entrance and divided it into your “squares”.
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- Aigul says:
08/09/2017 at 07:39
Hello, please tell me. If the social rental agreement and the decision of the housing commission indicate 3 people, but only 1 person is registered at the housing department’s passport office. For how many people should housing and communal services be accrued? The tenant submitted a request to the housing and communal services suppliers so that the accrual would be made for 3 people. How legal is this and is it necessary to register the remaining two family members in order to indicate the number of people as 3 instead of 1 in the Unified Payment Document.
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- Vasya says:
02.11.2020 at 10:02
That is, if I am registered and do not live, then I have to pay, but if I am not registered and I pour tons of water, then I don’t have to pay. As a last resort, you can buy a fictitious temporary registration. A country of morons, the United States would sooner smash it into logs with tanks and shoot every Russian with a bullet.
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- Julia says:
01/25/2021 at 14:09
The brother is registered with his son at the parents' apartment, but does not actually live in it, does this fact affect the payment of rent?
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