With the rate of inflation being so low our rent increase was less than the cost of registering the increase (which was divided equally between landlord and tenant). My initial suspicion was that the lawyer who drafted the contract and wrote asking for the increase and the registration fee was the only winner but our landlord assures us that all the registration fee is payable to the state. So now I am feeling sorry for the lawyer who has to do all this work pro bono. Can it be possible? Why didn't he foresee this at the contract drafting stage and suggest that we started with a slightly higher rent with no increases for the four years or is that not allowed? Are you obliged to register no rent increase each year too?
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