![]() Before you take this bold step, make sure you’re fully prepared for what lies ahead. However, as appealing as this may sound, the freedom of living on your own comes with great responsibility, financial and otherwise. You can finally live by your own rules, without curfews or restrictions, and take care of responsibilities on your own schedule and in your own way. This invoice below shows that the tenant owes 244 francs and 30 centimes for the year, which is the amount they will have to pay in addition to the total rent already paid.Moving out of your parents’ house just may be the most important step you take toward independence. Generally, an extra 120 francs is charged for the garage. Renting a garage for one car space is usually an additional 5-7% of the monthly rent, but not less than 90 francs per month. Landline phone and internet costs are an expense for the tenant. Cable network connection is charged separately. This includes: heating, "house master" services and general services of the landlord for the administration of the property, electricity, water and sewerage and rubbish collection. If it is less, you will be refunded the difference.īelow you can see an extract from the actual annual utility bill for a 4.5-bedroom flat in Bern. If you have used more gas or water than you have already paid, you get an extra bill. ![]() At the end of the year the estate agent or landlord will recalculate the rent and check the real costs. Some of these costs are covered by the rent that has already been paid (akonto): this is usually a fixed amount. ![]() There are two stages of payment of the utility bills. This is the responsibility of the so-called "house master" (Hauswart / concierge). heating, water, waste removal, electricity and maintenance of the building and its surroundings. At the same time he also has to pay for utilities, i.e. If they cannot pay the debt, the creditor may submit a Request for Continuation (Fortsetzungsbegehren / Réquisition de Continuation de la Poursuite) to the DCO, and the DCO will begin to collect the debtĪs a rule, the tenant pays the rent for a given month for the next month, i.e. If the debtor does not contest the Demand for Payment within ten days, they have technically agreed to pay the debt along with the DCO’s administration fee. If the creditor obtain can a court order which states that the debtor owes the debt (a Rechtsöffnung / Mainlevée de l'Opposition), the Objection Notice will be dismissed If the debtor wishes to contest the Demand for Payment, they can send an Objection Notice (Rechtsvorschlag / Opposition du Débiteur) to the DCO within ten days of receiving it. The DCO issues the debtor with a Demand for Payment (Zahlungsbefehl / Commandement de Payer) The fee for this service depends on the size of the debt The creditor submits a Debt Collection Request form to the DCO in the debtor’s place of residence. If the debt is contested, the process will include legal action. The exact process of debt recovery will depend on the canton, the nature of the debt, whether it is contested and how it can be recovered. Maybe I am being too Swiss, but I would still be careful: I am more worried about whether next time when I move and if the next landlord would want me to show the whether-or-not-you-are-in-debt document will there be a record? Thank you! I wonder if there are more things I need to do? I didn't want to not pay the bill, it was only i didn't even know that FedEx would send me a bill after I have moved. I immediately paid the 30 just now because I read in this forum that we don't necessarily need to pay the cost from a third party. One of them was already a bill from a debt collector Debitors claiming than I'll need to pay them more than 100 CHF while the original price was 30 CHF. Until yesterday one of them told me there were a few letters for me and I asked her to open it for me. Because it's a student flat and there live six people so no body really cared or thought about telling me that I still have letters arriving at my previous flat. Those arrived in December, Jan and Feb, and my name was written at the previous flat until end of Jan because I sublet the room to a person until then and the name card was only changed in Feb. I tried to change my address everywhere but It was custom clearance cost from FedEx because I ordered smth from aboard so I wouldn't know there was even such a bill. So I moved out of my previous flat last December and I had some unpaid bills that I didnt even know of.
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