constant increase tariffs It becomes a big problem for ordinary citizens. However, starting this year, the Russians could legitimately had the opportunity to not have to pay for certain utilities. This refers to the payment of bills for the use of electric energy, gas, water and sewage diversion in apartments are not equipped with individual meters. For central heating, solid waste removal, house maintenance and local area will have to pay as before.
How to reduce the amount of bills
According to the executive director of the National Center for Public Control in the housing sector Svetlana Razvorotneva, if you do not live on Place of registration, and the apartment is empty, you can contact the company provides utilities to recalculate apartment board. homeowners should be sure to install individual water consumption metering devicesGas and power or to document that their installation is not possible for some reason. If the tenant is responsible for more than six months did not submit evidence inside apartment counters, payment for utility services are charged at higher ratios and is not subject to appeal.
In the absence of inside apartment metering citizens must submit to the management company the corresponding application that they certain period (5 days) will not reside at this address and therefore it is necessary to make recalculation by removing the bills from the line for consumption powerGas, water and sewage retraction. However, property owners need to prove their long absence, provide a certificate of temporary registration to a different address, the guest card hotel, a corresponding document of the medical institution, etc. Recalculation utility payments in accordance with the RF Government Decree №354.
Avoidance of unnecessary services
In addition to the mandatory payments, some management companies in receipts indicate a fee for wire radio or a common antenna. This can be regarded as a solicitation in this case, the landlord may require their exclusion from the payment list. You can also save money, if any kind of public services not provided or poorlySuch as elevator has not been repaired for a long time, is not removed at the entrance or disposal of household waste.
No less important for the Russians was the decision of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, which the residents of apartment buildings are allowed to give up the central heating and set individual autonomous heating systems. In this case, it pays only the heat consumed for obschedomovye needs.
