One of the main activities of BTI is the provision of various services to the population, including the provision of various information that is issued to the owners of real estate or their authorized representatives in the form of certificates and other established forms of documents. To obtain the necessary information, you need to correctly compose a request, attach the necessary documents to it and send it to the institution.
This can be done in two ways - by contacting the BTI in person, or through a company that provides the relevant services. In the first case, you will first need to make an appointment, where a specialist will help you fill out the necessary papers. In the second case, the company will do all the procedures for the client, the customer will only have to wait for the required information to be received.
Why might you need information from the BTI?
This institution contains information about the characteristics of almost all apartments, houses and other types of real estate. Data sheets store information about the condition of the floors, the presence of communications, the material from which the walls are made, and so on. Such information is most often required in the following situations:
- When assessing an apartment, building or land plot. It is needed when obtaining a loan, drawing up a purchase and sale agreement (to know the real value of real estate) and in other similar cases.
- When obtaining permission for redevelopment. In such a situation, it is necessary to know exactly the materials from which the load-bearing structures are made, their thickness and condition, in order to coordinate the redevelopment project and not expose the building to the risk of collapse or falling into disrepair.
- In the process of privatization or registration of rights to premises, in order to clearly identify the property.
- When the owner changes as a result of a purchase or sale transaction, donation, inheritance, and so on. When registering these actions in a justice institution, a registration certificate and various BTI certificates are mandatory.
- In the process of mortgage lending to identify the property and register the encumbrance on it.
Error on the BTI plan - what to do?
Hi all.
I am going to remodel a brick house built in 1960 (the house was built according to an individual project), in particular I want to demolish the partition between the bathroom and toilet. I discovered that on the BTI plan, part of this partition is drawn THICK (see attached picture). The registration certificate for the apartment states that the plan was drawn up based on an inspection in 1990.
In fact, the partition between the bathroom and the toilet looks completely different from the one on the BTI plan! (again see attached picture). This partition rests at one end on a small ventilation duct, has a thickness of approximately 90mm throughout its entire length and is made of brick with an edge.
I have two ideas why this might be:
- The previous owners made an uncoordinated redevelopment, cutting down part of the wall or part of the ventilation duct. This option seems unlikely to me, mainly because the entire decoration of the apartment, including door frames, ventilation grilles and other engineering structures, clearly comes from the 60s of the last century and is covered with many layers of paint.
- It is possible that on all floors except the lower ones the partition looks exactly as it does on the BTI plan and there are ventilation ducts inside it. My apartment is on the second floor, so I only have one ventilation duct to the neighbor below. My neighbor above should already have two ventilation ducts: to my lower neighbor and to me, and therefore the ventilation riser should take up more space. It is quite possible that in a typical apartment above me, the ventilation riser takes up three to four times more space than mine. Maybe the BTI plan does not show my specific apartment, but a typical apartment located above me?
The actual question is: how to bring the BTI plan into line with the real state of affairs?
The preliminary conversation at the BTI did not yield anything good: they threatened that if they called a technician, he would draw it on the plan as an illegal redevelopment with red lines. They say that the only thing they can do is to look up the archives with construction documentation for the house and see what was there. This seems to me to make no sense, and it is clear that all these years they have been redrawing that same construction plan.
To be honest, I don’t understand what to do now. I didn’t do the redevelopment and I doubt that anyone did. I understandably don’t want to restore the wall “as on the BTI plan.” Are there any other options to legitimize the change in the BTI plan? Help!!!
General rules for submitting a request to the BTI
To obtain the necessary information, first of all, you should collect a certain set of documents. It depends on the purpose and composition of the requested information. After preparation, you need to contact the BTI, which serves a certain area. Since information about a building or premises in it is required, you should only contact the state or municipal BTI, since commercial structures may not have the necessary data.
To obtain data from the technical inventory bureau, it is recommended to perform the following steps:
- Fill out an application to the BTI, which must reflect the purpose of obtaining information.
- Update the technical passport (if necessary). It is recommended to do this at least once every five years, since information becomes outdated, and regulatory documents require information about the condition of the building to be brought in accordance with actual parameters.
- Provide the institution with a package of documents in accordance with the list. In most cases, you do not have to provide the original; a copy, previously certified by a notary, is sufficient.
If the applicant is a legal entity, then a letter of guarantee and a document confirming the authority of the representative will be required.
What documents are issued by the BTI? And how long to wait? on the Nedvio website
Question from a reader of our portal: What documents are issued by the BTI? And how long to wait?
Answer: In order to sell an apartment or house, the seller must provide a whole package of documents. Among them are documents submitted from the Bureau of Technical Inventory (BTI). It is not difficult to obtain documents from the BTI, but this process can be very long, which can lead to the fact that the sale and purchase transaction simply will not take place.
When selling an apartment, the seller is required to obtain cadastral and technical passports from the BTI, which provide all the technical and planning information about the apartment. These documents also contain a description of the building itself (year of construction, how many floors it contains, when major repairs were made, and much more). It is impossible to carry out state registration of an apartment purchase and sale transaction without a BTI certificate and its full description.
In addition to the cadastral passport and technical passport, the BTI is required to provide a floor plan and operation of the apartment itself. In order to receive these papers, the seller will need to do the following:
- Contact the territorial BTI and apply for such a document. Along with the application, the owner must submit a certificate indicating ownership of the property;
- After the application has been submitted, a technician from the BTI arrives. He takes measurements of the living space and carefully inspects the apartment for unauthorized redevelopment. Protracted communications with representatives of the BTI arise precisely from unauthorized redevelopment. If there were no unauthorized redevelopments and the measurements of the apartment were made exactly, then the applicant has the right to receive his documents from the BTI in two weeks.
Many property owners are concerned about the following question: “What will happen if, during an inspection of the apartment, illegal redevelopment is discovered and made public?” Again, based on the words of experts, firstly, the owner of the apartment will be required to pay a fine in the amount of 10 to 25 minimum wages. Secondly, the seller will be forced to forcibly return his apartment to its “pre-redevelopment” appearance or otherwise legalize the redevelopment.
However, you should take into account the fact that not every apartment redevelopment can be approved. This applies to cases where the load-bearing structures were greatly affected during the redevelopment. The owner of such housing will be fined and required to restore the structure as soon as possible.
If the redevelopment is not agreed upon with the BTI technician, all inconsistencies are marked on the floor plan with so-called “red lines”. In this regard, the buyer of such real estate will immediately see on the apartment plan all illegally made structures and partitions. If the buyer does not refuse such an apartment, then most likely he will not insist on providing him with a significant discount, since the responsibility falls not on the one who did the redevelopment, but on the one who owns the housing.
So, if you have a redevelopment done in your apartment, then it is better to legalize it or get approval for it in advance and then calmly put it up for sale at the market price, and not at a greatly reduced cost.
As you can see, documents issued by the BTI can be received very quickly, if you do not break the law, and if there are no unauthorized redevelopments in your apartment.
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Features of submitting individual requests
Most often, people turn to the BTI to obtain a certificate of ownership of a property. It serves as confirmation of the presence or absence of certain property of the applicant. You can obtain such a certificate by providing the following documents to the institution:
- Passport or equivalent document;
- Receipt of payment of the duty;
- Documents about the applicant's marital status (married or divorced).
Passport
Duty payment receipt
Marriage certificate
When sending a request to the BTI about ownership of a property, you must remember that such a certificate can only be provided in relation to premises that belonged to someone in the period from 1992 to 1998. To confirm the availability of property at a later period, you should apply for a certificate from Rosreestr.
Another popular reason for the request is the need for information about inventory news. To obtain it, the same documents are required as in the case of a certificate of ownership. It should be taken into account that since 2014 the BTI has not issued such certificates; if you need to obtain such information for the current date, you should contact Rosreestr.
To obtain a certificate confirming the absence of buildings on a plot of land, you must submit the following package of documents:
- Certificate of ownership;
- Extract from the cadastral plan;
- Technical passport.
Before issuing the described certificate, a BTI employee must visit the site.
Often they request a certificate about the property, which contains all the information about the characteristics of the building.
List of required documents
The specific composition of the package of documents depends on the type of certificate that is required. However, when making an appointment with a BTI specialist, you should have the following originals or notarized copies with you:
- A passport or a document replacing it to prove your identity, and therefore the right to receive the requested information.
- A certificate that confirms the rights to a land plot, building, apartment, and so on. It is necessary to clearly identify the property for which information is required.
- A receipt confirming payment of the fee to the budget, since almost all BTI services are provided on a reimbursable basis.
After providing the package of documents, the specialist will issue a sample request to the BTI for the provision of the necessary data and will inform you whether additional information is required to prepare the certificate. It should be filled out as recommended. This can be done directly at the BTI, or you can use an inventory office form from the Internet and fill it out at a convenient time at home or at work. After this, you must submit it along with all the documents and wait to receive the requested information.
Order a floor plan from BTI
In order to obtain the floor plan of the building you need, you need to contact the organization that carries out the inventory of real estate.
In most populated areas of the Russian Federation, this is done by the Bureau of Technical Inventory.
You can obtain a floor plan if you provide the following documentation to the authorized employee of the bureau:
| Passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation | You will need both the original and a high-quality photocopy of this document |
| Statement | Don't do homework. since a ready-made sample and a standard form will be given to you at the BTI department |
| Title documents for property | in order to obtain a floor plan, you must first prove that you are directly related to a specific property and, accordingly, have the right to receive a BTI plan |
| Power of attorney | if you are acting on behalf of another person, then you will definitely need a notarized document authorizing you to carry out certain actions |
After the documents have been submitted and accepted for consideration, you will be informed of the date and time of arrival of the BTI specialist.
He will take all the measurements of your house and apartment and make a pencil sketch of the future floor plan.
The finished document will be made in black and white, using scaling techniques and symbolic elements.
The BTI floor plan will reflect the following:
| Exact postal address of the property | and floor |
| Date of last building inventory | also detailed characteristics of all individual rooms |
| Area of the property in question | general, auxiliary, residential, area of balconies, loggias, etc. |
For an apartment
If you live in a separate apartment in an apartment building and you need to obtain a BTI floor plan, you must contact the inventory bureau located in the same area as your home.
Typically, a BTI plan for an apartment building is required when recognizing a residential building as unsafe or during the procedure for preparing an apartment building for demolition.
After such processes, residents receive separate housing in other houses and often in completely different areas of the city.
The new housing must match the old one in technical parameters.
For example, you previously lived in a three-room apartment with a separate bathroom and toilet, which means that the housing provided must also have 3 separate rooms and a bathroom.
Therefore, before a house in disrepair or subject to demolition disappears from the face of the earth, it is necessary to document everything that is in the house as a whole and in each apartment separately.
When drawing up a floor plan for an apartment, the attached explanation describes the existing wear and tear of the main communications, walls, ceilings, etc.
On house
Despite the fact that the construction of private houses without obtaining an official construction permit is illegal, many Russians begin construction work on their land plots without approval from the relevant authorities.
This is due to the fact that a permit to build a residential building is valid for 10 years and many citizens of our country are not sure that they will be able to meet this deadline.
Someone is building a house without borrowing money using saved money, performing only one construction stage per year (laying, foundation, erecting walls, installing a rafter system, etc.).
Someone thinks about the future of their children and is quietly preparing a cozy nest for their daughter or son.
BTI as an authority for registering property rights, read the article: registration of property rights in the BTI. Read about the validity period of an extract from the BTI with an explanation here.
When such illegal buildings eventually become completed residential properties, they need to be legalized.
It is for these purposes that it will be necessary to obtain a BTI floor plan.
A specialist from the Technical Inventory Bureau will have to not only make the necessary measurements of the building, but also make a conclusion about the technical condition of the building and its layout.
Explication
In order to obtain a floor plan of a building, a BTI specialist will have to come and inspect a specific property, take the necessary measurements, and then draw a schematic plan of the building.
Since when creating a plan, symbols are used that are not always understandable to ordinary citizens, it is legally required to attach an explanation to the floor plan of the premises.
It represents an explanation of the drawn drawing indicating some quantitative, qualitative and technical characteristics of the premises.
Usually the explanation is given in the form of a table that describes:
- Total area of premises.
- Interpretation of symbols printed on the BTI floor plan.
- Individual details of housing parameters, etc.
In addition to the fact that the explication is issued to the owner along with the floor plan of the building, it can also be ordered from the Technical Inventory Bureau as a separate, independent document.
Legend
The floor plan of a building or premises is a situational drawing with a scale of 1:10000.
There are state standards developed for the production of various drawings, plans, etc.
Based on these regulations, in the BTI floor plan you can see the following designation:
- boundaries of the land plot;
- window opening (regular, blocked, etc.);
- doorway (simple, arched, with doors, etc.);
- sink;
- bath;
- toilet;
- hob (gas or electric);
- air shaft;
- garbage chute;
- shower cabin;
- elevator, stairs;
- connection points for utility lines, etc.
If a person ignorant of drawing and graphics examines the floor plan of a room, he will understand little about it.
But since the second sheet must include an explanation, which is a kind of decoding of the plan, then all the symbols become obvious and understandable.
Procedure for making a request
When drawing up this document, it is necessary to take into account certain nuances. Firstly, the request should indicate information about the owner of the property, specific parameters of the property itself, which are indicated in the technical passport. They should be written exactly as in this document to make it easier and faster for BTI specialists to prepare information. If errors are made, a situation may arise where the applicant is denied certain data because such an item does not exist.
In addition, the applicant indicates what information is needed and why. When making a request to the BTI for information, you must remember that this information is confidential and is not subject to disclosure to unauthorized persons, therefore, even a close relative of the owner may be refused to receive a certificate without a power of attorney. In certain situations, data is provided at the request of government agencies, but the list of such cases is clearly defined by law.
If it is difficult to correctly compose a request on your own, you can contact specialized companies for help.
Is it possible to obtain information from the BTI in another city?
If the property is located in another city (for example, the ownership of it arose as a result of inheritance), you can obtain the necessary certificates remotely, without having to travel anywhere. There are several options to do this:
- Ask friends or relatives to submit a request. To do this, you will have to provide them with a power of attorney and pay a fee for them.
- Submit a lawyer's request. This service is quite expensive, so experts recommend using this tool in exceptional cases.
- Prepare the request yourself, attach a list of required documents and send it to the BTI by registered mail. This option will take a long time, but will minimize costs. It is also recommended to use it if there are no relatives or friends in another city.
Thus, obtaining certificates about the condition of property that is municipally owned or owned by individuals or legal entities is quite simple. You only need to pay the fee and fill out the request correctly, as well as collect documents in accordance with the established list.
