The lease copy kept by Lantern Stair House residents has a repair clause in the margin. The landlord’s signed copy has the same words but stops before the line that would name an amount. The maintenance ledger records the cistern work; it does not say how the cost was assigned to each room.
Tenant delegate Toma Vesh says residents were told that a customary duty covered the repair. The landlord’s office says the clause applies to all rooms sharing the cistern. Neither copy names a share, and neither includes the schedule that would show how a household could challenge a bill.
The housing clerk compared the signed pages and confirmed that both copies leave the amount blank. The office has not found an earlier lease with the same clause completed. That absence does not show that a charge was unlawful; it does mean the residents cannot check the requested sum against a written division.
The clerk will compare the copies with the maintenance ledger before the next bill is issued. For households waiting on their first room, a shared repair can be a welcome sign that they belong to a building, and a cost they cannot plan for if the lease never says how it is shared.
