appel de provisions sur charges

03:29 Apr 8 

is about the fact that this delinquent co-owner was asked / requested to put some money in to common pot for the building maintenance.

appel de provisions sur charges du 2ème trimestre 2024 inclus
=
including the advances on service charges requested for the second quarter of 2024

Money matters are not some inconsequential chit-chat - personally I prefer to stay close to the ST and not replace anything explicitly stated by some "implicit meaning" open to uncertain (mis)interpretation.

22:23 Apr 4 

Inspired by many of the comments/answers here, I agree with a word evoked by Charlie, namely "demand". For me this translates appel pretty closely. In the end I put "demand for advance charge payment"... but I think there's quite a lot of latitude for different ways of expressing it, as it is significantly different to what we see in the English-language world in comparable contexts.

21:30 Apr 4 

I agree with the comments you've made in other answers that translating "appel" might not be unnecessary IF the wording is clear (I think it probably would be in most likely translations here). I don't think I agree with your answer of prepayment. A prepayment is usually about paying in advance for a liability you know you will incur. These "provisions" are a fund that might, or might not, be used (& could be refunded). You might view it as, in these circs (as against accountancy), all provisions are prepayments; not all prepayments are provisions. So it *could* be misinterpreted.
But yes, I do think we skip "appel" iteself.

19:22 Apr 4 

It sounds like you agree with me.

Let's assume the 'appel' is an invoice. How is
'They did not pay the charges for the second quarter'
different from
'They did not pay the invoice for the charges for the second quarter'?

11:57 Apr 4 

As of 24 March, they also owe €x, including the ...... OK, so that gap is part of the discussion, I tend to side with "service charges" on the understanding it covers a whole gamut of possible contingent liabilities (to use an accounting term not unrelated to "provision" + "charges"); I've used "provisional service charge payment" in the past for provision sur charges.
I digress a little. If this money is owed, and you state as much, and there is an attached list including this figure in AAA's total debt, do you need to make a song and dance about the word "appel" per se? There would have been some kind of request/demand/invoice/bill for all the money they owe. If nothing fits neatly, I think you can justify the notion it is very much implied by whatever else you put.

10:55 Apr 4 

The administration of co-ownership housing in France is micro-managed by a plethora of law, whilst in GB trust is largely placed in the "commonsense" of the common man on the Clapham omnibus...

14:00 Apr 2 

I am a co-director of a leasehold flats self-management company. When there have been exceptional expenses (e.g. estimated costs of redecoration of the hallways) these have been apportioned between the leaseholders and added to the invoices for service charges and ground rent as "additional contribution"

11:34 Apr 2 

Yes, thanks. "Fonds Travaux" is usually "Reserve Fund". In the case of the 3rd line there, actually "AAA" is the surname (disguised) of the people who have not paid.

I'm not entirely convinced by your objection because "service charge" is something of a euphemism in the UK context: it does in fact cover any and all charges extracted from the leaseholders in a leasehold property, for any and all purposes. If you are from the US or Canada your objection might be more legitimate: if so, is there a catch-all term which you can think of (e.g. "charges", as suggested by AT)? In fact I see from your profile that you're from the UK...

10:37 Apr 2 

Hello

I live in France and was a condominium owner manager for years, and I'm sure that this is not just for service charges

The French lists the following

01/02/2021 Cotisation Fonds Travaux 01/02/2021 xxx €
01/02/2021 Appel provision 01/02/2021 xxx €
15/02/2021 Prov./Appel AAA 15/02/2021 xxx €

The first entry is a sum we pay so that there are funds available for anything, including emergencies of any nature, rather than regular service charges.
The third entry is probably a project (AAA) voted by an AG and would normally be a building project or the replacement of old equipment.

10:22 Apr 2 

The co-owners receive "calls" (but we would probably just say "invoices" in GB) to pay advances on the estimated forthcoming co-ownership charges. The same thing happens here but the "advance" is often incorporated into the invoice (quarterly, half-yearly or whatever).