Housing reform-refers to the house that the unit allocated to employees in the form of welfare before 1998. The nature of the house is lease and use right. 1992, the national housing system reform sold houses of this nature to employees at cost price and various discounts (called public houses for sale). When public houses are sold, part of the purchase money paid by employees is maintenance fund, that is to say, when the housing reform houses are sold to employees, the maintenance fund has been paid by employees (buyers). If the employee purchases the reconstructed house and transfers it to others for sale, the maintenance fund will exist with the house (there are also cases where the seller collects it from the buyer, which is called maintenance fund delivery).

The maintenance fund-simply the "pension" of the house-exists with the house. No matter how many owners change, the maintenance fund always exists (the owners just negotiate to pay the maintenance fund). Every household has a maintenance fund and a separate account. The household name is the "address" of the house and can only be used for the maintenance of the house (decided by the industry Committee and implemented by the property management company). After it is used up, the second maintenance fund can be carried out with the consent of the owners' meeting.

According to your situation, it seems that the original landlord didn't buy a house (he didn't go through the formalities of buying and selling public houses), but sold the "house use right" to you directly at the price of commodity second-hand houses, and you also went through the formalities of transfer (you must have gone through the formalities of buying and selling public houses), indicating that you have the Property Ownership Certificate. In this case, the first maintenance fund of the house will be paid by you.

I suggest that you pay, because sooner or later, all tenants have to pay as long as they buy this "right to use the house", otherwise some places will not get the real estate license. After paying the money, the money will belong to this house, and it will be yours if you live in it now. Just like the "personal provident fund", no one can use it casually except for house maintenance (when a property company needs a maintenance fund, it must be approved by most owners in the community).