The co-owners must now be put forward each year a standardized sheet with the prices of their trustee and any other candidates. What to help them choose, without lifting all the obstacles to the change of trustee.
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Competition its condominium trustee for, possibly, change can allow for better service, and / or lower price. This approach has been facilitated in recent years by a series of measures. Since June 2020, the co-owners have to decide on different quotes each year at the General Assembly (AG).
A new stage has just been crossed by January 2022 with the entry into force of a decree of July 30, 2021: Condominium trustees now have the obligation to join, to these contract proposals, a standardized information sheet that summarizes their tariff proposal.
The identification of the trustee, the duration of the contract, the number of visits provided for in the building, the amount of the package for the current management, as well as all the benefits invoiced apart must be included.
Limit abusive rates
“It is a question of summarizing the main lines of their contract in a more synthetic form. It goes in common sense, all that brings greater readability and allows you to change the trustee more easily is welcome”, comment Raphael di Meglio, co-founder of Matera, a platform for help with co-owners. This sheet accompanies the contract which is attached to the convening of the General Assembly. It must make it possible to understand the main elements and to facilitate the choice, if several trustees are presented on the agenda.
Compare the different offers from the only contract is indeed complex because this document, obligatorily provided in the convening of assembly, usually includes more than ten pages and is not easy to read when not familiar with his jargon.
So far, in many condominiums, a co-owner or a member of the trade union council (ie elected in general meeting to assist in the management of the building) devoted themselves to developing a comparative table his vintage to facilitate the decision. But it was based on volunteering.
“This greater transparency of tenders will also limit tariff abuse,” rejoices the association of co-ownership officials (CRA). “However, it took two years to set up this card because professional trustees contributed to delaying this process,” she is indignant.
Competition not systematic
Will this new tool have all the expected usefulness? There is an obstacle: in practice, all buildings do not compete their trustee each year. It is possible to vote at the previous general meeting a resolution providing the union council to carry out this process. And, in any case, no sanction is planned if it does not do it, and the election of the only trustee on the agenda does not call into question the result of the GA.
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