Construction time overrun 34 months - compensation states 500€/month

Hi,

we received our house handover protocol today, which we are supposed to sign tomorrow.

The construction was handed over on 21.02.18.

The planned date was 05.11.2017.

According to the contract (attachment), we are entitled to €500 compensation for each commenced month.

According to the handover protocol, it would be €1500.

Both we and all colleagues are of the opinion that we are entitled to €2000.

What do the experts among you say about this?

Thank you

5.3. four months would have passed. There are still three. Thus 1500,-

But why?

Every started month.

From
05.11. - 05.12. = 1st month
05.12. - 05.01. = 2nd month
05.01. - 05.02. = 3rd month
And
05.02. - 05.03. = 4th month (and we are in this started month)

What is stated in sections 1.1 to 1.5?

Then change 1500 to 2000, sign and see what he says. Was there an agreed construction period extension of three weeks? Is there a [Schlechtwetter Frostparagraph] in the contract that applies? Has he already conceded 500 to you elsewhere? Think about it.

The other points only mention typical, unforeseen events, strike, weather, etc.

But none of that applies to us.

We started in May.

There was no agreed extension of the construction period.

Accommodations made for us elsewhere? HAHAHA....that was a good one ;-)

No.

The construction manager also left out quite a bit from the protocol.

We alone have electricity costs of 1000€, because the heat pump ran without an outdoor unit. It was installed incorrectly.

According to an email, the costs would be covered, now he suddenly says no.

Also the fact that the house price includes additional costs like [Dixi Klo], but there was never one there.

Those things are not cheap to rent.

He also says they were never paid for....but basically they were.