As we were signing the tenancy contract, the owner of the villa we are leasing said he would charge us Dh500 every time there was a maintenance issue. He wrote it as an addendum on the contract. I questioned this and asked him whether he had a correct Arabic version of the contract, which lacked the addendum. As tenants are we responsible for the oral clause that was not in the signed contract? Also is charging for maintenance in a rental legit? In the US it never could happen. As a note, we’ve had several maintenance issues in the first month – all problems that were simply not fixed before we moved in. JD, Dubai

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