Explanation of the application of new dwelling tariffs as from 1 January 2019

On 21 June, the Rēzekne municipality council adopted a decision “on the establishment, collection and use of residential premises owned or managed by the municipality of Rezekne.”
The main aspects of this Decision are: 1) increase of rent in two stages, from 1 January 2019 and 1 January 2020; 2) the possibility of alienating (redemption) rented apartments;
On the amount of rent for certain categories of tenants
The decision of the Council on the fixing of rent provides that the rent is to be increased by 1 January 2019 for all categories of tenants. The existing tenants are divided into three categories:
1) tenants who have acquired residential rental rights until privatisation of residential houses (in accordance with the laws and regulations regarding privatisation of agricultural undertakings, residential houses transferred by government decisions from the balance sheet of public undertakings or institutions to be liquidated, residential cooperative houses, residential houses or separate apartment properties transferred to residential privatisation);
2) tenants to whom the residential area has been granted in accordance with the conditions of the Law on Assistance in Housing Issues, or persons registered in the Register of Local Government Aid, and the tenants living in other regulatory enactments, as well as tenants living in social apartments;
3) tenants who have submitted an application for alienation of a residential area by 31 December 2018.
Rent from 1 January 2019:
1) for the first and second categories - (0,10; 0,15; 0,20; 0,25 eur/m ²);
2) for third category - (0,05; 0,07; 0,10 eur/m ²)
rent from 1 January 2020:
1) for the first category - (0,20; 0,30; 0,40; 0,50 eur/m ²);
2) for the second category - (0,10; 0,15; 0,20; 0,25 eur/m ²);
3) for a third category - not to be paid if an alienation contract of a residential area has been entered into by 31 December 2019 (rent is not collected with the following month after entering into a contract of disposal);
Rental and leasing of rent
Rent is charged: 1) local government institutions, including parish governments, whose accounting records contain municipal apartments; 2) local government capital companies which manage the municipal housing stock (such are created IN Maltas, Lūznavas and Stružānu parish).
Rent is used for restoring the municipal housing fund, primarily for restoring the unrented residential fund, partly for improvement of the state of the social housing fund for tenants who have been granted the status of a poor person.
In accordance with Section 42 of the Law on rent of residential premises, the tenant is obliged to maintain the apartment in a proper state, but the current repairs must be carried out on his or her own resources.
On the submission of an application for disposal, rent charges in 2019 and 2020
For those tenants who have not been granted a living area in accordance with the Law on Assistance in Housing Issues, but rather, rental rights have been acquired in the general order, there is a right and possibility to alienate the residential area rented.
Example 1 - tenant rental right to an apartment in a residential house privatised in accordance with the laws and regulations regarding privatisation of agricultural enterprises (mainly parish), residential houses transferred to a local government with a government decision (in some parish cases, but mostly Stružānu in the village) or a decision of the State institution contributing to privatisation (in some parish cases, but mostly IN Lūznavas parish), but the tenant has lived there until the adoption of these decisions. In order to be able to pay the rent after the current tariff (0,05, 0,07, 0,10 eur/m ²) in 2019, the tenants must submit an application for the disposal of the residential area by 31 December of that year, but the disposal must be completed by the end of 2019 (conclusion of the disposal contract by 31 December). If an application for disposal (submission) has been submitted in 2018, but the disposal contract with a local government will not be concluded by 31 December 2019, the tenant will have to pay a full amount of rent in 2020 (0.20, 0.30, 0.40.0, 50 eur/m ²) and the additional difference between the amount of rent determined for 2019 (0.10, 0.20, 0.30, 0.40 eur/m ²) and the actual rent paid (0.05, 0.07, 0.10 eur/m ²) in 2019.
Example 2 - The tenant submitted an application for disposal in 2018, an apartment building, an area of 50 m ², a rent in 2019 for an apartment (50 x 0.10 = 5 x 12 = 60 eur) 60, but without entering into a disposal contract by the end of 2019, the tenant will have to pay (0.40 x 50 = 20 x 12 = 240 eur) 240 euro in 2020, and the additional difference between the paid rent of EUR 60 and the total amount of EUR 120 eur = 60 in 2019, which will result in a total of EUR 240 +60 = 300 eur per year. Example 3 - The tenant shall execute all the activities described above by 31 December 2019 and no longer pay any rent at all as from 1 January 2020, as the apartment has been purchased by the payment of the entire amount immediately or concluded by the disposal contract for payment (up to 5 years with a rate OF 6% per year from the remaining amount).
All tenants who wish to alienate rented apartments shall not be required to wait until the end of that year. It would also be desirable from another aspect, as many municipal apartments have yet to be registered in the Land Register, first by cadastral surveying. A submission may be submitted by residence in his or her parish administration.
Apartments located in school buildings are not planned for disposal and are intended for renting to school staff for periods of employment, as well as apartments which have been rented to persons who have acquired rent rights in accordance with the order of the queue or through the local government aid register. An exception could be those tenants with whom a rental contract has been entered into for an indefinite period of time, which does not have rent, utility and tax debt, a person (family) is no longer recognised as a minor. Social dwellings, apartments which have been taken over free of charge from a State for the performance of a specific local government function and apartments with utility payment, rent and tax debts will not be transferred to alienation.
Rezekne municipality council