Residents of a Lahtelaistalo building are living in their homes without heat after a new tenant failed to pay the rent
A housing company in Lahti has run into payment difficulties over a commercial space. According to the association, similar cases have become more frequent.
Residents of a small apartment building near the centre of Lahti are shivering in their chilly apartments after the district heating company cut off the heating last week because of unpaid bills.
The building society owes several tens of thousands of euros to a new shareholder who has bought a commercial space on the ground floor of the building.
The building has eight apartments and a commercial space.
The owner of the retail space has not been reached and has not responded to bear letters. Payments have been put on a bailout.
The same is happening elsewhere
The situation of a Lahti house company is not the only one of its kind. Located in the inner city of Lahti, 33 apartments and one commercial apartment apartment block struggled with a similar situation for years.
The company’s retail space was transferred to Russian ownership nearly ten years ago.
The compensation may already be accumulated because of the general economic situation alone. For example, the growth of e -commerce stores is complicated by the situation in stoneware stores.
Koro-Kanerva says that the problem is particularly affected by areas where the people are decreasing and business is fading. This can also lead to a business apartment in the wrong hands of the housing association’s finances.
According to him, the most typical case is one where the retail space remains empty and no new tenant is found. The business apartment shares are sold to a desk box company that may not have any intention of paying for consideration.
-When a desk-box company is unusual, the chambers of the housing association to go on to charge those charges is quite non-existent, says Koro-Kanerva.
Newly forged stony road
The situation on Yrjönkatu in Lahti was settled by taking over the business space shares in 2018. After that, the takeover was done twice after the deadline.
Now the housing company has bought the apartment for itself from a forced auction.
The bends were brought about by the fact that the owner had also disappeared and completely removed from Russian tax registers.
– The process that the apartment was brought in and the forced auction was long and difficult. Now there is light at the end of the tunnel. There was a bailiff in the direction of Russia, says Chairman Mantila.
Unpaid consideration of the housing company will be recorded in credit losses, but the Russian owner’s renovation debts are still left to distribute and pay for about EUR 80,000. That’s where the housing company intends to borrow.
There has been a four -year private kindergarten on the premises and the loss has been partially reduced by rental income.
Indebted entrepreneur out of reach
The situation on Karjalankatu is still unclear. The housing association has sought to cope with its invoices by collecting additional consideration from its residents.
– Since October, we have already collected three additional corporate considerations. The square meter of the consideration has also been temporarily raised, says Leivo.
In the future, the housing company will apply for a loan in order to deal with fees. The takeover of the retail space is pending.
According to public registers, the company owning the business premises has delayed fees for over EUR 34,000. At least two other housing associations are available in Sysmä and Savonlinna.
A man from Asikkala, a company, has at least 20 single -sided debt convictions for this decade. One of them is over EUR 5,000 for a housing company in Helsinki. As a result, he has also been evicted.
Yle has not managed to reach the CEO to comment on the situation.
The situation at Karjalankatu 21 was first reported by Southern Finland Sanomat.