Still others are scrambling to take what they believe is the prudent approach by separating recreational from other maintenance charges and beginning to pay.
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If real estate taxes and mortgage interest were the only expenses of the building, then the shareholders'maintenance charges would essentially be 100 percent deductible.
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The reason, Bader said, is that the borrower's ability to make mortgage payments may be impaired by a sudden increase in monthly maintenance charges.
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Teow has also agreed to waive the legal fee of about RM150 issued to 50 apartment owners who failed to settle maintenance charge arrears.
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But even in buildings in which maintenance charges are determined by the number of shares owned, there is often no consistency to the relationship.
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The maintenance charge is set once a year by a meeting of all residents, and for 2006 it is ?40 p . c . m.
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"But if uncollected maintenance exceeds 5 percent of the total annual maintenance charges for the building, you have a building that's in serious trouble ."
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The co-op, he said, generates revenue from the sale of shares to otherwise unproductive space and by collecting additional maintenance charges on the new shares.
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The works were opened in 1900, the cost of the scheme being Rs . 1.84 lakhs and the annual maintenance charges Rs . 6, 000.
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Tempers have flared so high recently in New York City that some boards have begun imposing steeper and steeper late fees on delinquent maintenance charges.