Homeowners' association as one of the ways to manage apartment buildings

the author of the article conducts a comparative legal analysis of one of the methods provided for by housing legislation for managing an apartment building - a homeowners' association. This analysis is carried out by studying the legal norms of housing and civil legislation governing the establishment and functioning of homeowners' associations, in order to determine the most significant properties of the considered method of managing apartment buildings. In addition, the analysis compares homeowners' associations with other types of management of apartment buildings provided for by the housing legislation of the Russian Federation. The results of the analysis allow the author to identify both the positive properties of this type of management of apartment buildings, which make it one of the most effective, and the negative properties that significantly reduce the quality of management and, as a result, negatively affect the lives of owners of premises in an apartment building. The author suggests possible ways to overcome the negative factors of the functioning of homeowners' associations in order to increase the efficiency of this type of management of apartment buildings. The relevance of the article is due to the existing systemic and global problems in the field of housing and communal services, which increase social tension in society, and is aimed at finding solutions to them.

homeowners' association, methods of managing an apartment building, managing organization of an apartment building, direct management of an apartment building, housing and communal services, apartment building