The share of risk

The administration of Pskov offers the owners of apartments in an unfinished house No. 36 on Yubileiny Street "not just to demand, but to solve problems together"

The authorities of the city and the region offer equity holders LLC Remstroy-2 a new exit from the current critical situation: the creation of a housing and construction cooperative, which will be engaged in the completion of House No. 36 on Yubileinaya Street in Pskov together with the municipal enterprise "Capital Construction Management". Despite the fact that the passive majority of equity holders opposes such a scenario, there is no other way out of the situation, apparently.

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| | The salvation of the fate of the equity holders of the house No. 36 on Yubileinaya Street in Pskov was in the hands of the shareholders themselves. Photo: Maxim Andreev |

The reserve option did not work, within which the vice-governor of the Pskov region, German Elyanyushkin, promised to remove the land with unfinished buildings from Remstroy-2 LLC and transfer it to the new investor [ 1 ]. It is reported that construction companies that were proposed to complete the construction "refused to consider their commercial risks too high."

Now the obligation to take care of the fate of almost a hundred equity holders, avoiding a social explosion, is entrusted to the authorities of the regional center. The meeting with the head of the Pskov administration Jan Luzin, who previously set in a letter to President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev on “absolutely detached from human problems, the attitude of local authorities to their pressing problems” took place on October 9, 2009.

As it became known to the Pskov province, during this meeting, Mr. Luzin said that although the construction company Remstroy-2, “understanding the social significance of this issue, is legally responsible to the equity, the administration is ready to take part of the responsibility and take certain risks” [ 2 ]. “We are not obliged to do this, but this is our desire - to help people who are in a difficult situation,” he added.

The shareholders were invited to take an active part in the “salvation of drowning”, creating a housing and construction cooperative. It is assumed that the functions of the customer of construction, as well as technical supervision and financial control over the progress of work, will be taken by the municipal enterprise Pskov “Capital Construction Management”, headed by Dmitry Spivak. Jan Lusin emphasized that the proposed scheme implies the consolidated responsibility of equity holders and authorities and "allows not only to demand, but to solve problems together."

According to the “Pskov province”, the vast majority of equity holders, the news of the proposal to create a housing cooperative adopted negatively. Nevertheless, participating in the consultations held between the authorities at different levels and the leadership of Remstroy-2, the asset of equity holders considered the best to agree on the conditions of the Pskov administration, reasoning that "while they give some money, we must take it." In the end, five founders are enough to create a housing and construction cooperative. Representatives of a number of firms applying for apartments in house No. 36 on Yubileinaya Street on Remstro-2 Services have already expressed the desire to act as such. At the same time, representatives of the asset have no doubt that ultimately, all equity holders, without exception, will become members of the housing cooperative, since this will be necessary in order to “apply for the ownership” to the completed apartments.

It is assumed that the completion of the house will be carried out through the sale of free apartments in the city or regional budget. The price of a square meter can amount to about 28 thousand rubles. True, representatives of Remstroy-2 LLC still cannot provide accurate information as many free apartments in the house: the equity holders call different numbers, from 26 to 31. Apparently, the company is still seriously fever. In addition, Remstroy-2 replaced the general director again: Igor Sviridov, appointed on the recommendation of Sberbank at a time when the possibility of issuing a new targeted loan company was still discussed, Alexander Lillert replaced.

Already this week, the lawyers of the Pskov administration must prepare the charter of the future housing and construction cooperative, which, after agreeing with the regional authorities, will be sent for registration. However, in the history of Remstro-2 equity holders, the transfer of the deadlines for making certain decisions and even a cardinal change in decisions themselves has become a common thing.

Maxim Kiselev

1 See: M. Kiselev. Bank or disappeared // "PG", No. 36 (457) of September 23-29, 2009

2 See: the city administration hosted a working meeting with Remstroy-2 equity holders // Official website of the city of Pskova, October 12, 2009