You can't. The owner shall pay the house maintenance fund before the house is delivered. The first phase of housing special maintenance funds, the owners can be directly deposited in the housing special maintenance fund account, can also be entrusted to the real estate development enterprises to pay. Entrusted by a real estate development enterprise, the real estate development enterprise shall, within 30 days from the date of receiving the housing maintenance fund, deposit the housing special maintenance fund into the housing special maintenance fund account.

Legal basis: Measures for the Administration of Residential Special Maintenance Funds

Article 6 The owners of the following properties shall deposit special residential maintenance funds in accordance with the provisions of these Measures:

(a) residence, except that it is jointly owned by the owners and does not use parts and facilities with other properties;

(2) Non-residential buildings in residential quarters or non-residential buildings connected with single residential structures outside residential quarters.

If the property listed in the preceding paragraph belongs to the sale of public housing, the selling unit shall deposit special housing maintenance funds in accordance with the provisions of these measures.

2. What are the ways to pay and manage the housing maintenance fund?

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.

Ninth residential special maintenance funds deposited by the owners belong to the owners.

The residential special maintenance funds extracted from the public housing sales funds belong to the public housing sales units.

Article 10 Before the establishment of the owners' meeting, the residential special maintenance funds deposited by commercial residential owners and non-residential owners shall be managed by the construction (real estate) department of the people's government of the municipality, city or county where the property is located.

After the warranty period of the house expires, the major and medium-sized repair costs and renovation costs of the main structure, public parts and public facilities and equipment shall be paid from the house maintenance fund paid by the owner, and shall not be paid by the owner. Therefore, in order to avoid the smooth progress of the renovation project, the owner must pay the housing maintenance fund.