If you leave for a long time on vacation or on a business trip, and your apartment remains empty for a long time, then it is best to take care in advance about reducing utility payments during your absence. The order of your action in this situation will differ, depending on the availability or lack of meters for water supply and gas. If the counters are, then everything is extremely simple: you do not use services - funds are not charged into your receipts. However, if you do not have counters, then everything is more complicated. This article will describe in detail the procedure for action to pay as little utility payments as possible during your absence home.
How not to pay for the apartment, if no one lives in it - what laws regulate your actions
First of all, you need to know the main thing: do not pay utility payments will not work at all. Even if you are not in the apartment for a while, then the improvement of the house and maintaining its workable condition continues even without tenants: the courtyard does not finish the mountains of garbage, the entrance is cleaned, the elevator is cleaned, checks continue. This is important to then you drove into your housing and felt comfortable.
Of course, depending on your management company and utility bodies, you can claim to cancel some of the payments:
- You do not have to pay for gas.
- Electricity.
- Water supply.
Heating is a public service, so you still have to pay for it. This can be attributed to the services of housing and communal services that continue to be provided regardless of whether you live there or not.
Return of funds occurs on the principle of recalculation. You can guide such laws:
- article 154 of the Housing Code of the Russian Federation;
- also, article 155 of the Housing Code of the Russian Federation;
- article 157 of the LCD RF describes in detail the payment on the counters and without them.
How not to pay for water if no one lives in the apartment
As it was already said earlier, if you have meters, everything happens just enough: you do not use the services, and therefore the account for payment remains unchanged. If you do not have meters, you have to do the following:
- Contact your communal enterprise.
- Provide evidence that you have absent: tickets, a certificate of a business trip.
- Apply for recalculation of payments.
- Passport.
This is a standard option for how it is better to do with a long absence. The recalculation is made within five working days, after which the changes are made to your receipt for the next month. If you have already paid services, this fee will go next month.
How not to pay for gas supply if no one lives in the apartment
If you do not have counters, you should also appeal to recalculate, as in the case of water. Documents remain the same: identity card and evidence of your absence. However, you can seal your gas valve. Experts will come the day after the challenge and will work. Thus, the fee will not be accrued during your absence, but also gas in the apartment will not.
When you return and decide to live in this accommodation again, consult a filling. It will be performed on the next day.
How not to pay for electricity if no one lives in the apartment
The easiest option is to turn off the electricity at all, because all residents are available on their meter. When you return, the meter readings will not change, which is easy to prove by showing them a specialist.
Not rare cases when accruals occur incorrectly. These testimony is easy to change, also by posting.
As you can see, many utility payments you can not pay, if you leave, and your apartment is empty. You will have to pay heating and public services. If you have a cable television or the Internet, then the account is easy to freeze the service provider to not pay for these services.
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