Incidental Expenses Accounting, Rent Increases And Reduction In Rent

Landlord should know that “every landlord can quickly calculate costs and operating costs and legal security to raise the rent. Landlords can protect also against rent reductions and not every housing shortage entitles the tenant to rent reduction”, says Thomas Trepnau, textbook author and lecturer. The rental contract is the most important basis for the billing of operating costs and expenses. There, all recoverable operating cost to be settled about the need to be called explicitly. Include, for example, the so-called allocable overheads: – property tax, – water supply costs, the cost of the drainage, the cost of heating and hot water, – the cost of the lift, the costs for road cleaning, – the waste disposal etc. The recoverable costs are listed in the operating costs of regulation. Cost elements, which there are not defined as operating costs, may not be passed on to the tenants of the apartment. This is for example the case with maintenance costs.

More Margin of discretion for tenancies of premises. Here, the apportionment of maintenance costs under certain conditions is possible. The same applies to administrative costs. The book “count down with your tenant – operating costs, the second rent” provides all the important information for the correct settlement of the lettings. Rent increases are not a book with seven seals. The yield from a rented property is maintained only if market rents will be generated.

“Lift easy and right secure the rent on the level of comparable apartments or using a Mietspiegels or a rental database.” This advice comes from rank. Thomas Trepnau has conducted countless seminars on this topic. His latest Advisor “More money with rent increases” makes it easy for every landlord and helps to plan including modernisation measures and correctly announce the tenant. Often overestimate their ability to reduce rental tenants and risking even the termination of the lease.