According to the relevant national laws and regulations, every household needs to pay the maintenance fund when buying a new house. In other words, the maintenance fund must be paid. If you don't pay, it will do great harm to your interests. Housing maintenance fund actually includes housing public facilities special fund and housing maintenance fund. Special funds for housing public facilities, referred to as special funds, are mainly used for the renovation of shared parts of the property and shared facilities and equipment, and shall not be used for other purposes. Generally speaking, the owner should pay the housing maintenance fund before handing over the house. If it is the first special housing maintenance fund, the owner can directly deposit it into the special housing maintenance fund account. Of course, if the owner feels that it is troublesome to pay the maintenance fund, he can also entrust the real estate development enterprise to pay it. If a real estate development enterprise is entrusted to pay for it, the real estate development enterprise shall, within 30 days from the date when the housing maintenance funds are in place, deposit the housing special maintenance funds paid for it into the housing special maintenance fund account.
Legal basis:
Measures for the administration of residential special maintenance funds
Article 7 The owners of commercial residential and non-residential houses shall deposit special maintenance funds for houses according to the construction area of their own properties, and the amount of the first special maintenance funds for houses deposited per square meter of construction area shall be 5% to 8% of the construction and installation cost of local houses per square meter.
The competent departments of construction (real estate) of the people's governments of municipalities directly under the central government, cities and counties shall, according to local conditions, reasonably determine and announce the amount of the first-phase residential special maintenance fund deposited per square meter of construction area, and make timely adjustments.
Eighth sale of public housing, in accordance with the following provisions of the deposit of residential special maintenance funds:
(1) The owner shall deposit the special maintenance fund for the house according to the construction area of the property he owns, and the amount of the first special maintenance fund for the house per square meter of construction area shall be 2% of the local housing reform cost price.
(two) units selling houses shall, in accordance with the proportion of not less than 20% of multi-storey houses and not less than 30% of high-rise houses, draw a one-time special maintenance fund for houses from the sales funds.
Derivative problem:
What is the scope of application of the housing maintenance fund? The use scope of the housing maintenance fund mainly includes the public parts and facilities used in the community. Specifically, public parts refer to the parts shared by the owners in a single house or the non-residential owners connected with the structure in a single house, including: residential foundation, load-bearing wall, column, beam, floor, roof and outdoor wall, hall, stairwell, etc.