This time: what the developer must not skip before the renewal agreement is signed — and what happens if it does. The offer-essentials document, the meaning of the first signature, and the sanction.
The offer-essentials document
In a good hour, the owners met the finalist developers at the conference and chose the winner. After the agreement is shaped and the owners' attorney has negotiated it, the developer delivers to every owner in the building an offer-essentials document — no later than two weeks before the first pinui-binui or TAMA deal is signed. It details, among else, the principles for setting the offered compensation, the securities offered to the owners, and the developer's professional record.
What the essentials present
- The developer's professional experience, with the projects executed in the last 10 years;
- Legal and administrative proceedings against the developer;
- The type of deal offered;
- The proposed project's features — apartments per building, floors, mixed uses (commercial areas), connection to adjacent plots and more;
- The compensation offered — added apartment area, attachments (sun balcony, storage, parking), the spec; and in pinui-binui and TAMA 38/2 — the compensation apartment's floor and orientations, rent for the construction period, and moving the apartment's contents both ways;
- An estimated timeline for the project's stages.
What else is in the offer
- Project costs — the expenses the developer bears: establishment costs, taxes, the fees of the owners' attorney and further advisers;
- The conditions precedent and their timeframe;
- How the project is financed — bank accompaniment or otherwise;
- Securities — the guarantees offered, including for the compensation apartment, rent, defects, taxes and registration;
- The maintenance fund and municipal rates — the new building's upkeep will cost more; the fund cushions it.
The first signature
- Once the first renewal deal is signed, the developer must notify all the owners in the condominium.
- Once a deal is signed, the developer delivers to that owner the transaction documents or a certified copy.
And if the developer skips the book? The sanction
If a renewal deal was signed before an owners' conference was held or before the offer-essentials document was delivered — a majority of the owners may resolve to cancel the deals, so long as 40% of the owners have not yet signed with the developer. Written notice goes to the developer, and the owners who signed are not treated as having breached.
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