Hi Forum Members,
I am caught in a situation where the rent of my house is increased due to a sudden increase in maintenance charges by the building society and owner has refused to share the burden.
I am staying in bangalore. In July 2014, I moved to a new property as a tenant. The owner told me that for first three months I had to pay the rent+building maintenance to him and post that from October on wards I would have to pay the rent to him and the building maintenance amount to the society.
The rent that was agreed was 18000 and maintenance charge as 2000.(All figures per month).
At the time of entering the house I had checked several times with him on this arrangement that when in October I would have to pay the building maintenance to the society, what will be the amount. On this he always gave me some vague answers.
Now in october, the society increased the maintenance to 4000 INR from 2000 INR, causing my overall rent to become 22,000 from 20,000 in only 3 months.
On raising this concern to the owner, the owner has asked me to either pay 18 K (to owner) + 4k (to society) or I should look out for other options. Since I was travelling abroad at that point of time, i paid 4K to the society chairman, and now owner is asking me to pay 18 K to him.
This is harassment, because in July only i started renting the house, paid brokerage to the broker and paid 1,30,000 INR as security. Now leaving a house in 3 months, will also make me loose 18K as paintaing amount etc.
Please assist if I can get any help or advice from a government body. I am a single person staying alone in the house and an increase of maintenance charge from 2,000 INR to 4,000 INR does not make any sense to me.
Please advice.
Thanks,
Arpit
