How much is the heating fee for the "vacant" room?

"No heat and no charge" is a basic principle of heating charge, but with the coming of heating season, contradictions are staged in many new residential areas: the owners have not yet moved in, and developers have to pay heating fees. Ms Li Xia just bought a new house in Tiexi District, Anshan City, Liaoning Province. Because I don't plan to stay this winter, I naturally don't want to pay the heating fee for this heating season. However, the developer has another saying: Even if you don't move in, you have to pay the heating fee, otherwise you won't let Li Xia get the key. The heating company said that heating emphasizes the scale effect, because the heating facilities are equipped according to the total area of the house during construction. If the housing vacancy rate is too high, it will inevitably lead to the waste of equipment operation. In the same community, heating 100 households and 20 households all use one boiler, and the cost is not much different. If the number of users who stop heating reaches a high proportion, the company may not even recover the cost. In this regard, some lawyers explained that according to the existing law, users only need to pay for heating, and since developers build new residential areas, they should bear the risk of high housing vacancy rate and bear the extra costs brought about by it, and should not pass this burden on to property buyers. However, many people in the industry have suggested that a certain heating fee should be levied in proportion during the period when the house is vacant. The reason is that real estate investment is hot in recent years. Many residents buy houses not to live, but then change hands after the price rises, resulting in a high vacancy rate.