Repair cost split calculator
A repair is quoted and somebody has to pay it. Enter the cost and the agreement's threshold, and see the split and the rule behind it.
One repair or occurrence, as quoted.
From the tenancy agreement, not a standard figure. The default here is the one our own clause library uses.
- Tenant pays
- S$200
- Landlord pays
- S$180
Above the threshold, so it has two payers: the tenant bears the threshold and the landlord bears the excess. This is the case people get backwards, by reading the threshold as the point where the whole bill becomes the landlord's.
The part that gets read backwards
A repair threshold is usually described as the point where a repair becomes the landlord's. It is not. Below it the tenant bears the cost. Above it the tenant still bears the threshold, and the landlord bears only the excess, so a repair over the line has two payers rather than a new one.
That is why this returns two figures instead of a name. On a quote a little above the threshold, the difference between the two readings is most of the bill.
What comes before the threshold
Four questions are settled first, and the order is the one the clauses impose. If the tenant caused the damage, the whole cost is theirs whatever the threshold says, and that is checked before anything else: an agreement that excused damage a tenant caused because it fell inside an opening window would be a free hand rather than a warranty.
Then the opening problem-free period, where the landlord rectifies what the tenant reports in writing. Then structural work and the electrical and plumbing systems, which stay with the landlord however small the bill. Then air-conditioning, where routine servicing is the tenant's and breakdown, parts and chemical cleaning are the landlord's. That last line is the one a vendor moves when they arrive for a service and recommend a chemical wash, which is why it is a question here rather than an assumption.
What this does not decide
- Whether the tenant caused it. That is a finding somebody makes from the evidence, and it changes the answer completely. It is a question here, never a guess.
- What your agreement says. The threshold is the one you enter, and the rules above are our own clause library's. Another agreement can allocate differently, and the agreement wins.
- Who authorises the work, and when money moves. Consent before an above-threshold repair, the exception for urgent work, and how quickly a landlord reimburses a tenant who paid are all terms of the agreement rather than arithmetic.
This is a calculation aid, not legal advice.
Related
- A tenant reports an issue at 11pm on a Saturday: how to judge severity, and where the line really falls.
- The other calculators: stamp duty on the agreement, and what a property returns.
RentOwl does this on the real quote
This page runs the same rule the product does. In RentOwl the tenant reports the issue, the job goes out to your own contractor on a link that needs no account, and the quote that comes back is split by the tenancy's own threshold before anybody argues about it.
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