What's a common home
Shared facility equipment
How should funds for specialized maintenance be paid
How do you apply for it
All maintenance costs
Is it possible to draw on special maintenance funds
Today
About the maintenance fund

Special maintenance funds are those earmarked for residential co-location, maintenance and upgrading after the end of the warranty period for common facility equipment, and are shared by all owners. Payment of funds for specialized maintenance is a statutory obligation of the owner to maintain the long-term safe use of the building。
Q: what is common residential areas, common facilities and equipment
Response: housing shares are those owned by the owner of a single house or by the owner of a single house and the non-owners of the house connected to its structure, generally including: the base of the house, the heavy wall, the pillars, the beam, the floor, the roof and the wall, the door hall, the stairway, the corridor, etc。
Common facility equipment means equipment for ancillary facilities shared by the owner of the home or the owner of the home and the non-owner of the dwelling concerned, generally including elevators, antennas, lighting, fire-fighting facilities, green areas, roads, street lights, ditches, ponds, wells, garages for non-operational garages, facilities for public goods and houses used for common facility equipment, in accordance with laws, regulations and contracts for the purchase and sale of houses。
Q: what are the criteria for paying for specialized maintenance
The owner or non-owner of the dwelling deposits funds for the special maintenance of the dwelling in accordance with the building area of the property owned, and the initial deposit of funds for the special maintenance of the dwelling per square metre amounts to between 5 and 8 per cent of the cost per square metre of the local residential construction works。
The authorities responsible for building (real estate) of the people's governments of municipalities, cities and counties under the authority shall determine, publish and adjust, as appropriate, the amount of the funds deposited for the initial maintenance of dwellings per square metre of building space。
Q: how do you apply for special maintenance funds
Response: the following procedures are followed: (i) property service enterprises that make proposals for the use of funds for specialized residential maintenance prior to the transfer of funds to the owner's conference: (i) property service enterprises that make proposals for the use of such funds on the basis of maintenance and renovation and renovation projects; where there is no property service enterprise, the owner makes proposals for the use of such funds; (ii) owners who have a portion of the funds for specialized residential maintenance that represents more than two thirds of the total building area and more than two thirds of the total number of such funds discuss the adoption of such recommendations; (iii) property service enterprises or related owner organizations implement the use programme; (iv) property service enterprises or related industries run the material and apply to the municipality, municipality and county people's government authorities for the construction and maintenance of such funds; in this case, those that use funds for the special maintenance of public housing premises apply to the department responsible for the management of public housing; (v) municipalities, municipalities and county people's government construction (real estates) or the department responsible for the management of the special housing home, after they have agreed to issue a circular for the transfer of funds for specialized residential maintenance to。
The following procedures are followed: (i) after the transfer of funds for specialized residential maintenance to the management of the owner's conference, the property service enterprise is required to use funds for specialized residential maintenance: (i) the property service enterprise submits a programme for the use of such funds, which shall include the proposed maintenance and renovation, the cost budget, the range of payments, the disposal of such emergency situations as endangering the security of the home and other situations requiring the temporary use of funds for specialized residential maintenance, etc.; (ii) the owner's general assembly adopts a programme for the use of such funds in accordance with the law; (iii) the property service enterprise organizes the use of such funds; (iv) the property service enterprise holds the materials to propose to the owner's committee funds for specialized residential maintenance, which shall submit to the municipality, municipality, county and people's government construction (real estate) authorities for the use of such funds for the purpose of repair and maintenance of public housing, on the basis of a programme for the purpose of approving and reporting to the municipality, municipality, municipality and county government authorities for the construction and maintenance of housing in the county; (vi) the department responsible for the management of public housing。
Question: what should be done when some owners do not pay the special maintenance fund
In that case, the owner of the non-payment of the special maintenance fund may be requested by the owner's conference to pay for the management of the function of maintaining the common or public interest of the district on behalf of the owner. If certain owners are allowed to enjoy the benefits of maintaining the common portion with the maintenance funds of other owners without paying the maintenance funds, other owners may be able to pay more than their share in the maintenance of the common portion, which is contrary to the principle of equity and would be detrimental to the long-term safe use of the building and to the common or public interest of all owners。
Question: what maintenance costs should not be covered from special maintenance funds
Response: according to the measures for the management of funds for specialized residential maintenance, the following maintenance costs cannot be charged to the specialized maintenance fund: (i) the cost of common residential space, maintenance, upgrading and renovation of common facility equipment, which shall be borne by the construction or construction unit in accordance with the law; (ii) the cost of maintenance, maintenance of water supply, electricity, gas, heating, communications, cable television lines and facilities, which shall be borne by the relevant unit in accordance with the law; (iii) the cost of repair of common residential space and common facility equipment, which shall be borne by the party as a result of human damage; and (iv) the cost of maintenance and maintenance of common residential space, shared facility equipment, which shall be borne by the industrial services enterprise in accordance with the provisions of the property service contract。





