Advice needed for dispute with property management co.
Discussion
Roughly 3 years ago I bought a new-build property with my own private car parking space. It was a new development and other building works were going around the estate and I was advised that there was also future building work planned.
I few months ago they started building another block of flats in an area near the private car park. In doing so they have stopped us using the road to access the car park and have instead built a non-dig road (temporary road plates) over a grass verge.
This was fine at first until the road started to deteriorate due to the amount of traffic going over it. The non-dig road is now very bumpy and dirty and I can not drive over it without the front of my car bottoming out.
I've voiced my concerns with the property management company who have spoken with the builders / developers. They have advised that I do not drive above 5mph and they believe the road is fit for use.
I have mentioned that I intend to recover my costs for repair, if it gets to that, but I'd rather it not get that far.
Is there anything else I can do?
I few months ago they started building another block of flats in an area near the private car park. In doing so they have stopped us using the road to access the car park and have instead built a non-dig road (temporary road plates) over a grass verge.
This was fine at first until the road started to deteriorate due to the amount of traffic going over it. The non-dig road is now very bumpy and dirty and I can not drive over it without the front of my car bottoming out.
I've voiced my concerns with the property management company who have spoken with the builders / developers. They have advised that I do not drive above 5mph and they believe the road is fit for use.
I have mentioned that I intend to recover my costs for repair, if it gets to that, but I'd rather it not get that far.
Is there anything else I can do?
No damage so far, my point is I'd rather something be done before it got that far. A resident has already ripped their front bumper off using this non-dig road.
The developers believe the road is fit for purpose, if I can't drive over it without scraping the front of my car then I don't believe it is fit for purpose.
The developers believe the road is fit for purpose, if I can't drive over it without scraping the front of my car then I don't believe it is fit for purpose.
Diablos-666 said:
This was fine at first until the road started to deteriorate due to the amount of traffic going over it. The non-dig road is now very bumpy and dirty and I can not drive over it without the front of my car bottoming out.
Is everybody else managing to use this alternative route without problem?Is your car unusually low? If so, has it been lowered from standard?
If you're going to try and claim back damage to it, then you're going to have to prove that the road wasn't fit for use, rather than it being your car unsuitable for an otherwise acceptable road.
I have great sympathy for the OP having refused to offer on a few properties personally over the last 12 months as the state of the acess to them was not conducive to multipal TVR ownership.
That said looking at that picture that is a roadway 1001 times better than those we have to traverse at Le Mans most years and not once have we left a pice of Tiv on the floor.
I would be making a bit of nise about it all but unless the right of way you have over that road is unusually specific there is little or nothign you can legally do about it.
If you care about the state of your access (beyond passable by your average family car) once you have turned off the public highway, like if you care about your view, there is only one way to make sure it is to your likeing and that is to own it.
That said looking at that picture that is a roadway 1001 times better than those we have to traverse at Le Mans most years and not once have we left a pice of Tiv on the floor.
I would be making a bit of nise about it all but unless the right of way you have over that road is unusually specific there is little or nothign you can legally do about it.
If you care about the state of your access (beyond passable by your average family car) once you have turned off the public highway, like if you care about your view, there is only one way to make sure it is to your likeing and that is to own it.
To be honest (and I am a developer!) I'd go and talk tot he site manager who are doing the build, ask him to witness your inability to get over the road and ask him to do something about it. The property management company are likely just agents hired by the legal mgmt co which is propbebly owned by the residents.
When this doesn't progress keep badgering the site manager, maybe parking in the site entrance while you do so will bring the fact you can't park in your space and can't access it a bit like their site to their attention...
At the end of the day a legal route won't solve it as that will take longer than the construction works so they will be finished and road removed by then!
When this doesn't progress keep badgering the site manager, maybe parking in the site entrance while you do so will bring the fact you can't park in your space and can't access it a bit like their site to their attention...
At the end of the day a legal route won't solve it as that will take longer than the construction works so they will be finished and road removed by then!
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