Needful Knowledge when you want to rent a house.
Guarantee.
Contract.
Rent.
The project, who is responsible of it?

NEEDFUL KNOWLEDGE WHEN YOU WANT TO RENT A HOUSE

You can demand the following information, but only for the rent of a house that takes place inside an enterprise or professional activity.

It is not required between privates.

• Constructive characteristics.
• Description of the common installations, coupling of water, supplies and services, as well as the electric mechanisms, water connection and sanitary set.
• Characteristic of the lifts and load cage placed in the immovable and the security measures.
• Security measures against fire.
• Measures of energetic saving.
• Description of the measures in the construction and the materials and thermal insulation systems available in the property, as the common elements as well as in the property, indicating their toxicity.
• Characteristic hygienic-sanitary.
• Description and graphic of the sanitation netting and evacuation of the immovable and the connection with the main net.
• Size of the windows, surface of illumination and ventilation.

Once you have decided to rent the property, you must check in the Register of the Property, the following:

• The property must be inscribed in such register.
• The landlord must be the property’s owner.

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GUARANTEES

When signing the contract there must be a deposit in cash equivalent to a month rent. The guarantee is subject to update after 5 years.

 

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CONTRACT

The contracts made after 1995 will have the duration pact by the parties. However, if the duration is less than 5 years, it must be extended to annual terms till it has duration of, at least, 5 years.

The tenant can avoid the renewal of the contract at the end of the year, giving 30 days notice to the landlord.

If there were not duration pact, this would be of 1 year (subject to the right of extension).

If the landlord needs the house as his own residence before the 5 years, he must notify in writing while making the contract. If he did not inhabit the house in the maximum term of 3 months since the extinction of the contract, he must give the house back to the tenant and pay a fine.

If after 5 years of renting, the parties do not notify a month before the due date that they do not want to renew the contract, this will be renewed for annual terms to a maximum of 3 years (the tenant can leave the house at the end of the year giving a month notice).

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RENT

It will be stipulated by the parties.

Except they decide something else, the payment will be monthly and it will be made in the first 7 days of the month.

The landlord must give the tenant a receipt for the rent payment and other expenses, except something else was arranged. If there is not receipt, the landlord will pay the expenses originated to state the payment.

During the first 5 years of renting, the rent will only be updated every year of the contract in force, and the changed percentage for the IPC will be applied on the very last twelve months.

From the sixth year the update can be stipulated by the parties. On the contrary, the annual update will rule.

If, after 5 years of contract, the landlord makes some kind of improvement, he will be able to increase the rent. The increase will be the result of applying the rate of legal interest in rule at the end of the improvement, increasing in 3 points to the inversion made on the improvement discounted the public grants giving for the realisation, but without being more than 20% of the rent in force.

The payment of the community and tax expenses may correspond to the landlord, if there is any agreement in writing on which it gives the annual amount of such expenses at the time of the contract.

In the first 5 years of contract such expenses, except tax, will only increase annually, and never in a higher percentage than the double on which the rent can increase.

The expenses for services that the rented property has (water, electric light, gas, etc.) will always be on the tenant’s account.

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PROJECT

The necessary improvements to keep the property in good conditions will be the concern of the landlord, unless the damage was made by the tenant or they are small amends owing to wasting for everyday use.

When the improvement work can not be delayed till the end of the contract, the tenant must stand it, but if the work lasts more than 20 days, he will have the right to a decrease of the rent in proportion to the part of the property that was void during the work.

With regards to the improvement, the tenant is also forced to stand it if it can not be delayed till the end of the contract, but the landlord must notify the tenant in writing and with 3 months notice, start date, duration and the foreseeable cost.

After one month since the notice, the tenant will be able to:

• Cease the contract and leave the property within two months of it.
• Or pay less rent, get indemnification for the expenses created because of the work.