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I am one of the flat owners in a building of 20 flats and seven shops. The promoter has sold all flats and shops. Our apartment has already been registered as a cooperative society but the promoter is yet to hand over the building to it.
• What is the procedure
to take over the building from the promoter? What are the
documents he should hand over to the society?
• What are the
documents he should provide for our elevator?
• The common electric
meter is in the promoter’s name and commercial tariff
applies. How do we bring the meter under the society’s
name and pay domestic tariff?
• Maintenance charge
is now taken as a lump-sum amount. What is the procedure
to collect it? How should the shop owners pay the maintenance
charge when they are not using water and common lights?
• The promoter
has sold the common area below the staircase on the ground
floor, which he has promised all of us verbally as a parking
place for two wheelers/bicycles. How can we recover this
area?
Ashok Mandal, on email
• If the
titles of all flats and shops have been transferred, there
is nothing much to do to take over the maintenance. What
the promoter needs to give is the account of maintenance,
the building sanction plan and other necessary documents.
If he is unwilling to hand them over, stop paying the maintenance
and let the society take it up.
• The
promoter needs to hand over the licence of the elevator.
• If
the shops are not using the common meter, domestic tariff
will apply. There are two ways of doing it. Seek transfer
with the signature of the promoter or apply for a fresh
meter and transfer all the common lines to it.
• Maintenance
charge depends on the size of the flat. Bigger the super
built area, higher the charge. However, if the shops are
not using water and electricity, their contribution should
be less. The figure has to be negotiated.
• If
the space below the staircase falls under covered area,
the promoter can sell it. Check the building sanction plan
and see if he has the approval to do it. Verbal commitment
holds no ground.
We are staying in a house that my father had built on land recorded in my grandmother’s name. My father has only one married, well-established younger sister. Does she have a claim on the property?
We are staying in a house that my father had built on land recorded in my grandmother’s name. My father has only one married, well-established younger sister. Does she have a claim on the property?
A.K. Dutta, Calcutta
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