Category: Consumer Protection

How to form an Association of Apartment Owners

The law i.e. the Uttar Pradesh Apartment (promotion of construction ownership and Maintenance) Act 2010 mandates that it shall be the joint responsibility of the builder/ promoter and the apartment owners to form the association, however, in practice the builders are most reluctant to form an association of apartment owners as same will take away the right to manage the common areas and facilities and money collected for that. Under such circumstances when the builder is not forming the association of apartment owners then the buyer can form the AOA on their own. The article has a youtube video presentation.

Insurance Company must give cogent reasons without which it is not free to appoint the second Surveyor

Insurance Company has an inherent right to appoint Surveyor to assess insurance claims but such right can be exercised for valid reasons or if the report is found to be arbitrary and that Insurance Company must give cogent reasons without which it is not free to appoint the second Surveyor.