Additional Costs Statement - How should the list be created?

Yvonne, he doesn't need to get something like that for an apartment. He should do that together with someone or have it shown to him. [Sprechstunde Haus und Grund]. If he rents out, he should join the club anyway, if only because of the cheap group insurance policies.

The programs I know are designed to manage many residential units in different properties. You have to tell the program yourself how the allocation keys, such as how much of the consumption is allocated via the consumption and how much via the sqm. Only after you have entered all the default settings for the property do you enter the invoices incurred and the consumptions from the meter readings at the end and then receive your statement. However, the effort is only worthwhile if you can then bill several residential units at once. If I only have two residential units, the calculation is completely simple.

Well, I rent to my stepfather. So everything is not that complicated. But still I want to do it properly.

So we don't have a hot water meter here, only in the [EWH].

I still haven't fully understood the hot water. The heating costs are only for the heating. I do not recognize the electricity that the heat pump uses for hot water.

You have to imagine it like this: you need, for example, €1000 for heating electricity, maintenance, circulation pumps, etc. If you cannot read from your system how much heat the system used for heating and hot water preparation, you take a flat rate, let's say 20% water, 80% heating. Then you take your reading from the hot water meter and that of your delivery apartment and add them together. Then you divide the €200 by this sum and multiply it by the respective consumption. The same applies analogously with the heat quantity meters for heating. In some landlords' cases, for example, 30% of the costs are also charged based on square meters, since the provision of heat and heating energy also costs money even if it is not needed.

Where I find the last sentence unfair, the one about the 30% because of basic heating costs. After all, I pay rent for that. I don’t rent a car and then pay an additional basic fee on top for the engine. I only pay for the fuel consumed. My wife and I have been renting out for decades and still do, and not to relatives. We factor things like chimney sweeps, snow removal, or heating maintenance into the rent. Also property tax or insurance. That’s a bit higher, but these costs are just part of the house or apartment. That is simply fixed. What is settled then is only what the tenant can really control through their behavior. Gas consumption. Garbage collection, water and sewage. The tenant has their own contract for electricity. That’s how I calculate. If the apartment once cost 150, I want 5% before tax on that, which is 7.5, plus around 0.5 for the mentioned things, making 8, divided by 12 equals the monthly rent. Karsten

Thank you

In this case, I would rather forgo a separate billing as well as this administrative work and opt for a flat-rate rent.