By modernization one understands to improve all structural measures of the owner/landlord of a real estate, which have the goal of increasing the value in use of the renting thing lastingly in the long term in the rental law the general housing conditions or to cause lasting savings from energy or water to. Among the modernizations rank also other measures, which were accomplished due to circumstances, which the landlord does not have to represent not at all ("§ 559 paragraph 1 BGB).

In the case of modernization the landlord can make an annual rent increase over up to 11% of the costs spent on the dwelling. If the structural measures for several dwellings were accomplished, then the costs are appropriately on the individual dwellings to divide ("§ 559 paragraph 2 BGB).

With publicly promoted dwelling the advice of the municipality of the modernization must agree. Nationally at subsized interests credits must benefit in the calculation of production costs the tenant.

One than maintenance and/or repair measures designates all other work on the real estate. The demarcation of "modernization" and "maintenance" is a popular point at issue between landlords and tenants; because it may not surround costs of the maintenance on the tenants.

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