Manage a parcel relay at home: beware of condominium rules!

To round off his ends of the month by transforming his home into a parcel relay, this is an interesting perspective. But do the inhabitants of a building have the right?

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“Your package has arrived in your relay point “. Good news but, before wearing the boots of your dreams bought on Vintédyou will have to go to this famous relay point located Five kilometers from you And who closes at 6 p.m. … Your best friend is more lucky, her neighbor having improvised home parcel relay manager ! An activity that appeals to an increasing number of individuals in search of an additional income and social ties, and which they can develop with the help of applications like Welco and Pickmus. You are hoping that one of your landing neighbors embarks on this adventure. But if the neighbor of your best friend can transform her individual house into a package relay, things are much more complicated in a building.

“The activity of a parcel relay seems to me to be akin to a commercial activity and can therefore pose difficulties in terms of assigning the co -ownership batch »initially intended for housing, reacts to Capital Danielle Dubrac, President of the United, which brings together in particular co -ownership trustees. Indeed, “If you want to transform your accommodation, or even a single room, on a professional premises, you must request authorization to the general meeting (GA) of co -owners»»continues Olivier Safar, president of the United Ile-de-France and Grand Paris. “If the premises (residential) is operated on a commercial basis, a change in assignment must be requested”adds Olivier Principle, president of FNAIM of Greater Paris. And if you are not the owner but tenant of your accommodation, you must also request the agreement of your lessor.

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A real professional activity, not a simple domiciliation

In fact, with the reception of parcels with delivery people, their storage and the delivery to their recipients, in return for remuneration by the application, it is indeed a commercial activity carried out at home which it is here . And not a simple domiciliation From your professional activity to the address of your accommodation, as in the case of an individual sports coach exercising with his customers and using his home only to receive the mail linked to his profession.

Moreover, even in this simple case of domiciliation of a professional activity at the address of the accommodation, you must inform your lessor, if you are a tenant, as well as the condominium trustee. And, after two years, you must ask the general condominium assembly to authorize yourself to continue this domiciliation.

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The particular case of building guards

Obtain authorization from theAG Co -owners to develop a home parcel relay is not won. The inhabitants of the building are likely to relieve the prospect of Daily Ballet of Delivers, Coming and coming of the recipients of packages and the distribution of the front door codes, likely to generate security problems. For the moment, Olivier Safar has not had individuals managing home parcel relays in the condominiums he administers.

On the other hand, “a lot of Small shops at the foot of buildings develop this activity. If their lease does not provide such a diversification of activity, then their lessor is entitled to ask them for a complementary rentsince they generate additional income in a room which is not planned to be a parcel relay ”explains the president of the United Ile-de-France and Grand Paris. Where he observes tolerance, on the other hand, it is in the case of Building guards which make the package relay in their lodge: “Normally, they do not have the right but it suits co -owners”smiles Olivier Safar. And it doesn’t bother anyone, a lodge is rarely located on the eighth floor.