Maintenance, Repairs, and Major Renovation Obligations (Turkey)

In the Turkish system, the legal owner of the value of the leased property cannot unload the invoice of their own crumbling fixtures and building onto the consumer user they tied to the rent. Whether it's water spurting from the new boiler, the roof freezing the house with external insulation water, or site dues pool expense management; the law has brought a very sharp coerciveness (TCO 317) on the subject of "Who Covers the Expense?".

1. Expenses the Tenant is Responsible For (Light and Ordinary)

The tenant is obliged to give small maintenances, which they wear out with a consumption share during routine esna based on use and rental need, to the master or material from their own budget (In accordance with TCO 317 - "Petty expenses limited to ordinary use in terms of cleaning and maintenance").

• In-House Small Glass / Fuse Breakages: A tenant who cracks their glass while playing ball or pushing at the window, pops its corner by throwing a heavy tray on the kitchen marble, or burns and breaks the electric bulbs or inner room socket core switches, is legally the sole debtor to find the repairman themselves and repair the repair from their budget without even needing to inform (invoicing) the landlord.
• Not Paint and Wear (But Excessive Dirty Exit and Damage): While leaving the house by returning it, the tenant undertakes the cleaning of the 3-year-old house whose whitewash color faded and turned gray, they get the paint cleaned themselves! On the contrary, with the drilled drill breaks they engraved the nailed deep picture dowels on the wall they scribbled themselves, the landlord paints the deposit or makes them a penalty debtor with a direct deduction execution of that rotten destruction! (It is mandatory to leave generally clean).
• Routine Site/Building Management Dues (Aidat): The tenant legally undertakes the routine consumable dues bills that they provide "use" benefit themselves, such as the cleaning of the building pool, the janitor salary expense bill collecting garbage bags at the door, or the electricity / cleaning of the general elevator, from the building manager's notebook in time with an IBAN cash and pays them without being able to have recourse to the landlord ("Usage Expense Share").

2. The Responsibility of the Landlord (Major Roof - Fixed Expense Belonging to the Property Owner)

The owner of the house (the original lessor in accordance with the TCO), on the other hand, is the debtor to finance the invoice for the disability and aging deteriorations ("Major Repair / Infrastructure Renovation") in its main pillars in the structure of their house, which they made efficient to earn its price, instantly from their wallet or with the "justified reduction of deduction" from the bank transfer of the next rent of that money made upfront from the tenant's pocket.

• Systemic Not Detaching from the House (Boiler / Installation Malfunction): If in the 2nd year, in that cold December month in winter, the boiler in the bathroom loses its wear life from within its own normal use and the motor / pump breaks down and rusts the burning, and this is out of use, not because of external factors with an external reason but from the end of the life with use years - The Tenant is not an addressee in the slightest from the main repair of all spare part revision cost between 5 thousand and 30 thousand TL at the authorized service of that boiler, or from the replacement invoice of the new machine facility! The tenant calls the master and sends the invoice to the landlord (The landlord says deduct it from the rent / I will send it).
• Site Investment, Elevator New Motor Purchase, Jacketing Paint: When site managers want from all property owners for the demirbaş structural building main pipe main wall umbrella insulation to its external whitewash Demirbaş Fund Budget allocation by writing 10 thousand tl ("Demirbaş, Repair Investment Investments") to the elevator malfunction main replacement investment share while it is called dues for ordinary cleaning - The Tenant does not put their hand into this fund for a penny.
• DASK Public Insurance / Real Estate Tax and Garbage Facility Tax Fee Share Costs (Municipal Property) Investments Debt Taxes The Owner is Responsible From Annual Totals. The tenant, who pays only the share they use, is purified from the original property and real taxes of the residence or building to the state.

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