Service charge
Discussion
I'm in a new build estate still under construction. (moved in a year past Christmas)
Ever since then we've been paying a factors fee for general grounds keeping etc except this hasn't been getting done.
I phoned up the estates company to find out when they were coming to do some weeding and grass cutting only to be told they aren't.
It seems that our part of the estate hasn't been handed over yet and we are in fact paying for the upkeep of some of the more established parts of the estate. The burden of grounds keeping it seems is still with the developer.
I'm wondering why we are being charged a. For work not being done and b. For something they don't even have a contract for.
Any ideas about the legality of this?
Property management companies can be a nightmare sometimes.
We weren't in a too dissimilar situation to yourself, whereas we had received the invoice to pay for the maintenance to the grass area's etc but it turned out this maintenance wouldn't start until all houses were complete in this section of the estate (1 years time) BUT we still had to pay this as it was within their contract even though nothing was getting done at our part of the estate but on the finished part of the estate they were getting the grass cut etc..
Eventually i got letters threatening to go legal if i didn't pay regardless of complaint letters from myself and neighbors so paid up!
We weren't in a too dissimilar situation to yourself, whereas we had received the invoice to pay for the maintenance to the grass area's etc but it turned out this maintenance wouldn't start until all houses were complete in this section of the estate (1 years time) BUT we still had to pay this as it was within their contract even though nothing was getting done at our part of the estate but on the finished part of the estate they were getting the grass cut etc..
Eventually i got letters threatening to go legal if i didn't pay regardless of complaint letters from myself and neighbors so paid up!
AbzGuyGTI said:
Property management companies can be a nightmare sometimes.
We weren't in a too dissimilar situation to yourself, whereas we had received the invoice to pay for the maintenance to the grass area's etc but it turned out this maintenance wouldn't start until all houses were complete in this section of the estate (1 years time) BUT we still had to pay this as it was within their contract even though nothing was getting done at our part of the estate but on the finished part of the estate they were getting the grass cut etc..
Eventually i got letters threatening to go legal if i didn't pay regardless of complaint letters from myself and neighbors so paid up!
Exactly our situation. It’s not a lot of money in the grand scheme of things but it would be nice to get the grass cut .We weren't in a too dissimilar situation to yourself, whereas we had received the invoice to pay for the maintenance to the grass area's etc but it turned out this maintenance wouldn't start until all houses were complete in this section of the estate (1 years time) BUT we still had to pay this as it was within their contract even though nothing was getting done at our part of the estate but on the finished part of the estate they were getting the grass cut etc..
Eventually i got letters threatening to go legal if i didn't pay regardless of complaint letters from myself and neighbors so paid up!
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