Dealing with a complete tit
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Ideally, this should be in 'Things that annoy, etc' but I'm fuming over it.
I have a hoiday flat in a Victorian former school building in Cumbria - there are 20 flats and the place is run by a management company. I rent the flat out and the building needed some fairly urgent repair work.
Cue the company demanding £1,250 on top of the usual £78 per month maintenance cost, with eight day's notice to pay. The boss never sent the e-mail concerning this, though he claims to have done. He sent it to my ex-to-be (we're in mid-divorce) then tried to blame it on her when I got it late and secondhand,.
I argued the case over financial mismanagement about repairs. He argued "Read your lease".
So, the works began last week. I went over and found my dedicated parking spot occupied by a big trailer - it's the site office, with onboard potty.
As I hadn't even been consulted, I called him. Mine is apparently the 'least worst' choice of location for the 'necessary by law' office. It can't go round the corner (in a visitor parking spot) because the toilet emptying wagon can't get round there. 'because of the scaffolding'.
He cares not a w
k that the flat is a business and its own off-street parking spot is part of the deal - and it belongs to me.
All this jumped-up jack-in-office can say is, 'read your lease'. So, I've asked him for a copy of the lease with highlights showing where it says I can be discommoded, have my business undermined and be treated like ste into the bargain. No response yet.
bear in mind that this twunt and his stty little company are paid to work for me - and everyone else in the building. Ex-to-be has been in tocuh with the C.A.B.
I have a hoiday flat in a Victorian former school building in Cumbria - there are 20 flats and the place is run by a management company. I rent the flat out and the building needed some fairly urgent repair work.
Cue the company demanding £1,250 on top of the usual £78 per month maintenance cost, with eight day's notice to pay. The boss never sent the e-mail concerning this, though he claims to have done. He sent it to my ex-to-be (we're in mid-divorce) then tried to blame it on her when I got it late and secondhand,.
I argued the case over financial mismanagement about repairs. He argued "Read your lease".
So, the works began last week. I went over and found my dedicated parking spot occupied by a big trailer - it's the site office, with onboard potty.
As I hadn't even been consulted, I called him. Mine is apparently the 'least worst' choice of location for the 'necessary by law' office. It can't go round the corner (in a visitor parking spot) because the toilet emptying wagon can't get round there. 'because of the scaffolding'.
He cares not a w
k that the flat is a business and its own off-street parking spot is part of the deal - and it belongs to me. All this jumped-up jack-in-office can say is, 'read your lease'. So, I've asked him for a copy of the lease with highlights showing where it says I can be discommoded, have my business undermined and be treated like s
te into the bargain. No response yet.bear in mind that this twunt and his s
tty little company are paid to work for me - and everyone else in the building. Ex-to-be has been in tocuh with the C.A.B. 
Assuming it’s a leasehold given the ‘read your lease’ comment, who is the freeholder, and what do they say about it? Or is the management company also the freeholder?
Blocking your parking space sounds out of order, I can’t imagine any lease that would say they have the right to do that.
Blocking your parking space sounds out of order, I can’t imagine any lease that would say they have the right to do that.
Neil H said:
Assuming it’s a leasehold given the ‘read your lease’ comment, who is the freeholder, and what do they say about it? Or is the management company also the freeholder?
Blocking your parking space sounds out of order, I can’t imagine any lease that would say they have the right to do that.
It used to be run a bit like a co-operative by the property's owners/residents, who styled themsleves 'Old School Mangement Ltd' They hold the lease and they got fed up with running the place and farmed out everything to the local management company involved, Blocking your parking space sounds out of order, I can’t imagine any lease that would say they have the right to do that.
Neil H said:
Assuming it’s a leasehold given the ‘read your lease’ comment, who is the freeholder, and what do they say about it? Or is the management company also the freeholder?
Blocking your parking space sounds out of order, I can’t imagine any lease that would say they have the right to do that.
I agree, thisis why I asked him to highlight this permission in a copy. Blocking your parking space sounds out of order, I can’t imagine any lease that would say they have the right to do that.
The thing is, we bought the flat for my elderely mother, who managed 16 months' escape from a care home and lasted only a fortnight in a care home before passing away. Now it's in the middle of the divorce battle - all the funds for the flat and the house I'm still in came from my family's side. This is why I've no plans to try to buy the lease.
Seems many people who run management companies are similar.
Years ago when I moved in with the missus while we looked for a house to buy, we were "notified" by the head hocho of the management company, that a decorator (someone else who loved on the complex) was going to be painting the windows outside, and front doors. We got no other notification, other than coming home one night the following to find our front door had been painted shut. Complete fkwit of a decorator who we found out was told to paint them, even if no one was home.
Years ago when I moved in with the missus while we looked for a house to buy, we were "notified" by the head hocho of the management company, that a decorator (someone else who loved on the complex) was going to be painting the windows outside, and front doors. We got no other notification, other than coming home one night the following to find our front door had been painted shut. Complete f
kwit of a decorator who we found out was told to paint them, even if no one was home.Edited by fatboy b on Tuesday 28th June 16:41
fatboy b said:
seems many people whi run management companies are similar.
Years ago when I moved in with the missus while we looked for a house to buy, we were "notified" that a decorator (someone else who loved on the complex) was going to be painting the windows outside, and front doors. We got no other notification, other than coming home one night the following to find our from door had been painted shut. Complete fkwit of a decorator who we found out was told to paint them, even if no one was home.
Sounds all-too familiar.Years ago when I moved in with the missus while we looked for a house to buy, we were "notified" that a decorator (someone else who loved on the complex) was going to be painting the windows outside, and front doors. We got no other notification, other than coming home one night the following to find our from door had been painted shut. Complete f
kwit of a decorator who we found out was told to paint them, even if no one was home.Given your service charge is on the low side (£900 a year) it sounds reasonable they might need extra to cash to cover some repairs. I'd look over the accounts and see if they seem fair.
If they are ripping you off then talk to the residents and replace them. If it's just one guy in the maintanace company being a dick I'm not sure I could be arsed with the hassle of it all and would just leave it.
If they are ripping you off then talk to the residents and replace them. If it's just one guy in the maintanace company being a dick I'm not sure I could be arsed with the hassle of it all and would just leave it.
Edited by CountZero23 on Tuesday 28th June 16:45
I can agree with the comment about management companies above. Our house is on a new build estate and that is run by a management company. It's a complete scam, they do nothing (we have proof), but somehow they feel we have to pay their ficticious bill. Anyway, one morning I went outside to go to work and found two builders coning off the path and parking space outside of our house. They had already dug up the other side of the road, so we knew the same was happening. As we'd not received any notification, my wife told them to go (she's more diplomatic than me) and pointed out that someone from the company could come and explain to us why we'd be losing our parking with no notification before any work would take place. Get home from work and there was a big trench around the side of our house, with one of those heavy metal panels as access to our door, but they had written a post dated note and shoved it into the letterbox. The site manager had gone home and then refused to speak to me when I called. It was like that for a fortnight, the workers damaged the granite slabs they dug up and damaged our wall, but the building company refused to fix the damage or pay for it. I'm still in dispute with them.
It's a bugger isn't it? The work is schduled for completion first week in October - bang on as far as high holiday season goes. Given the Brexit bks has put a big hole in the bookings this year, I can't be arsed, what with the divorce too (1st hearing 9th Sept). I now I'm not the ony one put out but I've other fish to fry.
ks has put a big hole in the bookings this year, I can't be arsed, what with the divorce too (1st hearing 9th Sept). I now I'm not the ony one put out but I've other fish to fry. W99KSY said:
If this managing agent is acting on behalf of the Freeholder, did they send you a Section 20 consultation ? Think there is something that if the works are > £250 they have to write to you with details (though not sure how long in advance) ... could be worth looking into
OP - read this.If they didn't follow the section 20 to the letter then you may not have to pay.
We recently had an S20 notice at my block, it triggers several weeks of work, three quotes, right of the tennants to suggest contractors etc. If the management company had failed to follow it then we wouldn't have had to pay.
I read about a Housing Association somewhere that didn't do this properly, they were left with the bill.
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