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This time we have received a question concerning the operating cost statement and the inspection of the respective receipts.
QUESTION: I am a tenant in a building with rental and owner-occupied apartments. The property management company submitted the utility bill late this year.
The individual items are not listed in the invoice, only the total of the expenses. This means that the accuracy cannot be verified, so I would like to see the long version of the invoice.
But the administration does not want to send it to me; other tenants have looked at the bill in the administration office.
How can I get the manager to give me access to the receipts? How can I check the operating costs?
This time, the lawyer on the residential telephone Georg Röhsner from Eversheds Sutherland Attorneys at Law. He has the following legal answer:
ANSWER: The landlord (the administrator) is obliged to annually 30.6. a proper accounting of the Operating costs of the previous year in the building for inspection by the tenants.
Instead, he can also send printouts of them and in an appropriate manner provide the possibility to Inspection of the documents admit.
The Renter also has the right, but at his own expense, Copies of the invoice and to request the receipts.
Simply stating the total amount of operating costs without specifying what these Amounts complies with the legal Regulations certainly not.
If no amicable settlement with the property manager is possible and can be achieved, you can arrange the laying of the Invoice and demand access to the documents.
This is the case with the respective District Court possible, in Vienna the Arbitration Board responsible.
