LAU - the Spanish renting law

LAU is the new spanish renting law. It protects the tenant and as well as the hirer. On this page, we will give you some hints for the following terms which are determined in LAU.

Maintenance

clause II, chapter IV, article 21-24 and chapter V, article 26

1. The hirer has to care for good order and condition and the maintenance of the property.
2. If rebuildings – maintenance measures -, which cannot be postponed and have to be performed before the end of the contract, the tenant has to tolerate it. Only after twenty days, the tenant has the right for an abatement of rent for the part of the property, which cannot be used.
3. Only after receiving a written agreement from the owner the tenant is allowed to do remodelling or rebuilings. If the tenent does so without the agreement of the owner, he is allowed to cancel the contract. In this case, the tenant has no right of compensation for his work. Also if the owner did not agree with the rebuildings, he can request the tenant to give the poperty back the same way he received it. In this case the tenant also has no right of compensation.
4. If the property becomes untenantable in consequence of maintenance or building work measures, which have been agreed upon by the authorities, the rental agreement can be suspended by the tenant until the end of the reparation or it can be cancelled completely. An entitlement for an abatement of rent does not exist in this case.
5. he charges for minor reparations (because of every day usage of the property) have to be paid by the tenant.