10 points for tenants
1) Make sure every bill to your service fee and monthly fee to rent their housing, is issued in accordance with the terms of your lease. His lease dictates when and how much to pay.
2) Make sure that all services work properly, without loss or leakage, this will ensure that the monthly bill of each corresponds to what you actually are consuming.
3) When you have to pay any duty, to ensure that expenses are their own, ask the landlord to use the full details and requesting clarification on specific points that generate questions.
4) Talk with other tenants to establish their views on rental costs and quality of services provided by contractors or suppliers with instructions from the owner or administrator. Talk about ways in which the owner can reduce costs and maintain essential services, can help to propose these ideas to the owner to be considered.
5) Before closing the contract, inspect the housing facilities on their own and take note of those that need repair in a short period of time or complete replacement. Clarify your doubts about it: who will bear the costs of repair or complete change of equipment or property, the owner or you?
6) Check if you have an arrangement with the landlord regarding the services and pays a fixed cost, if a reasonable percentage that is requested or an estimated more than you spend.
7) Compare prices with other rental housing of similar characteristics, so you can realize if you are a good deal or if on the contrary, will have to pay rent like luxury.
Check the lease item by item. Take time to analyze and read the details of each clause, so save yourself.
9) Keep in touch through open dialogue with the owner or managing agent, and attend meetings of tenants to ensure that their concerns have been transmitted. This also helps keep you informed of any change in the budget. It is also good practice to ensure that the minutes of these meetings are recorded and kept.
10) When in doubt, consult a specialist or expert counsel for advice.