The examination of the extent of responsibilities placed upon both owners and tenants of rented properties is quite intriguing, particularly in the context of older properties subject to controlled rental values. According to legal principles, upon entering into a tenancy agreement, tenants bear the obligation of maintaining the property, notwithstanding their financial contributions to the property owner.
Maltese Legislation establishes a distinction between ordinary maintenance, assigned to the tenant, and extraordinary maintenance, reserved for the owner. Still, owners, may display reluctance in promptly intervening, a circumstance notably prevalent in the sphere of aged rental properties where rental payments may not align with prevailing market rates.
On the other hand, the absence of ordinary maintenance may necessitate the implementation of extraordinary measures to which end owners might contemplate leveraging such situations to provide grounds for the rental regulation board to request the tenant’s eviction. Having said this, the feasibility of such a course of action in practical terms raises pertinent questions.
The intricacies surrounding these considerations are elucidated in the succinct publication titled “Drittijiet w Obligi f’Proprjeta’ Mikrija.”
