The Flat Maintenance Post Purchase involves maintenance be charged at the Square Feet area of the flat. The General Practice adopted is a Rate that is arrived at after calculating all the expenses and is divided by the Summation(All Flats Build up Area). The Flat maintenance charges involve conflicts and requires a compromise from every flat involved. In today's technologically advanced Financial Software, Category wise split of charges, Auditing, Tax invoicing, GST invoices etc requires us to component the expenses and arrive at the rate per flat.
The following are expenses that are directly not impacted by the Number of Sq. Feet owned by a Flat and they are listed below,
1. Security Services
3. Water
4. Electricity - Lift and Water Motor
The following expenses are directly or indirectly related to the Number of Sq. Feet Owned By a Flat and they are listed below,
1. Common Area Mopping and Cleaning
2. Plumbing Work outside of Flat
3. Common Garden Area
4. Amenities Maintenance Charges - Swimming Pool, Gymnasium, Sports, Party, Meeting Halls
5. Common Electricity Charges - Lighting
6. Painting and renovation charges - Outer Surface Area
7. Plumbing outside the premises
8. Fire Safety
However, the more Usage based Charges Solutions that we arrive it would be better for a harmonious living with less conflicts, misunderstanding and arguments,
For Example the following areas of usage or services can be charged based on metered consumption like
Water - Fitted with Meters
Water Motor Charges - As Per Water Meter Reading Values of Each Flat and the Overall charges.
Lift - Usage with a Card along with a Common Flat Charge
Swimming Pool - Pay as you use along with base Sq, Feet Rate Charges
The Common Area Maid charges simply could be Overall Square Feet of Mopping, Sweeping divided by Build up area of each flat to determine the Total Cost and cost per Flat.
The Common Garden Area charges simply could be the Overall Square Feet of Gardening, divided by Build up area of each flat to determine the Total Cost and cost per Flat.
The Amenities Maintenance Charges - Swimming Pool, Gymnasium, Sports, Party, Meeting Halls can be determined by Pay as you use and a minimum per flat based on Sq. Feet Rate Charges
Common Electricity Charges - Lighting could be based on the Total Cost of Electricity Consumed / Total Common Area Sq. Feet against the Per Flat Sq. Feet.
The Plumbing Charges outside of the Flat could be based on the No of Kitchen, No of Bathrooms or Toilets, instead simply count the number of Plumbing lines in Each Flat. The charges for this could be arrived at based on Actual Charges at Every Service +Actual Service Charge divided by the total number of Plumbing lines of that Flat.
The Painting and Renovation charges could be arrived after the overall cost / Total outer surface of the block against each flats outer surface area.
The Societies Act of the Various Governments in India mandate that only one person can vote per flat and therefore only One Person per flat is allowed to Vote. The default voting right would vest with the Person who is the Registered owner of the Flat and the legal heir above the age of 18 years have the right to Vote on behalf of the Registered owner of the Flat either by power of attorney, or by the approval of the Registered owner of the Flat by mail or letter, or by Legal Heir certificates after the demise of the Registered owner of the Flat.
In case of Joint Ownership of the Flat where in one or more members of the family are registered owner's of the flat then one of them shall be allowed to vote as the law allows only one vote per member in the association, the membership basis is based on the per unit ownership in the Residential association.
I have arrived at this understanding after reading the LAWs associated with it and after bitter arguments, differences,leanings, experience and conflicts with the residence in an association where I own a flat.
Hopefully, in the future such practice is adopted to reduce the amount of differences emerging from various residents as they all own different dimensions of Flats.
This is not the best or ideal solution. The ideal solution would be to measure every components by a unit (area, volume, consumption, length, breadth and so on) to distribute the cost against the Flats. The builders (Civil Architects) I am sure would be able to resolve this if they are required by law or by the builder to consider this aspect as one of the important parameter for construction, post construction maintenance benefits for their customers,
HAPPY and HARMONIOUS LIVING..
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