Administration and repair costs billed as operating costs – do I have to pay?
Likely invalid — such a clause does not bind you.
Only the running costs exhaustively listed in the BetrKV are passable to the tenant (§ 556 para. 1 BGB). Administrative and repair costs remain with the landlord.
What you can do next
Reject this allocation. Request a corrected operating cost statement without non-allocable items.
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