Holiday home maintenance agreement
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Hi
I have recently purchased a Freehold Chalet on a holiday park in Norfolk, all has gone fine & I have done the conveyancing myself.
The only issue I have come across is having informed the site owner of the change of ownership, he wants £100 to issue the maintenance agreement. I didn't expect this to be free but wasn't expecting it to be quite so much. I have asked him for the terms and conditions and a schedule of charges relating to this fee and the only reply I receive is that I should use a solicitor!
Is he within his rights to demand this fee with no further explanation?
Thanks
Chris
I have recently purchased a Freehold Chalet on a holiday park in Norfolk, all has gone fine & I have done the conveyancing myself.
The only issue I have come across is having informed the site owner of the change of ownership, he wants £100 to issue the maintenance agreement. I didn't expect this to be free but wasn't expecting it to be quite so much. I have asked him for the terms and conditions and a schedule of charges relating to this fee and the only reply I receive is that I should use a solicitor!
Is he within his rights to demand this fee with no further explanation?
Thanks
Chris
bangerturner said:
Hi
I have recently purchased a Freehold Chalet on a holiday park in Norfolk, all has gone fine & I have done the conveyancing myself.
The only issue I have come across is having informed the site owner of the change of ownership, he wants £100 to issue the maintenance agreement. I didn't expect this to be free but wasn't expecting it to be quite so much. I have asked him for the terms and conditions and a schedule of charges relating to this fee and the only reply I receive is that I should use a solicitor!
Is he within his rights to demand this fee with no further explanation?
Thanks
Chris
Im not familiar with this but will use a lay perspective.I have recently purchased a Freehold Chalet on a holiday park in Norfolk, all has gone fine & I have done the conveyancing myself.
The only issue I have come across is having informed the site owner of the change of ownership, he wants £100 to issue the maintenance agreement. I didn't expect this to be free but wasn't expecting it to be quite so much. I have asked him for the terms and conditions and a schedule of charges relating to this fee and the only reply I receive is that I should use a solicitor!
Is he within his rights to demand this fee with no further explanation?
Thanks
Chris
The site owner wants £100 of you to issue you with what i assume is an agreement to sign to confirm you will continue to maintain your part of the site? What is he printing it on to warrant £100?
we used to look after blocks of flats and freehold houses which had part communal grounds. So yes we would charge for providing information out such as answering solicitors enquiries or anybody's enquires if it relates to a sale. ie copy of insurance docs, budge plans, budgets, maintenance issues etc normally 50 questions with copies of all sorts of things and issue share certs/record this etc. and we would charge about £200/300 depending on the time/work
Im a bit confused as to what you are asking for from the freeholder? You will have a covenant to pay xyz for communal maintenance but if they want you to pay then they will invoice you? So I don't understand that?
If you want copies of "things" then yes there is normally a charge to provide this.
Have you completed/registered the title?
Im a bit confused as to what you are asking for from the freeholder? You will have a covenant to pay xyz for communal maintenance but if they want you to pay then they will invoice you? So I don't understand that?
If you want copies of "things" then yes there is normally a charge to provide this.
Have you completed/registered the title?
Edited by superlightr on Wednesday 21st February 17:07
Yes I have registered the title and it's in my name. The chalet is freehold but there is a yearly site charge which I was completely aware of. I was just a bit shocked to be asked for £100 to sign a maintenance agreement. I have asked nothing of him other than to inform him of a change of ownership. He then contacted me to inform me that I needed to sign a maintenance agreement for which I would be charged £100
Is the maintenance agreement setting out the cost they want you to pay towards the communal bits? If they want you to pay for things then its in their own interests to send you the agreement I would have thought.
is there communal water/elec or cost of such ie paying for easement for the provision of water/sewage/elc or own meters and paying the park?
Perhaps just ask them again that you want to pay your maintenance part that's due can they invoice you/send the agreement they want you to sign.
leave it in their court. offer to pay the maintenance, ask for the contract they want you to sign.
Edited by superlightr on Wednesday 21st February 17:15
bangerturner said:
Yes I have registered the title and it's in my name. The chalet is freehold but there is a yearly site charge which I was completely aware of. I was just a bit shocked to be asked for £100 to sign a maintenance agreement. I have asked nothing of him other than to inform him of a change of ownership. He then contacted me to inform me that I needed to sign a maintenance agreement for which I would be charged £100
It’s easy enough to have a chat to see why the charge is so high just to sign a document. Is it a deposit that will be returned? Is it taken off the yearly maintenance bill?Or is he just asking for £100 to print off a document for you to sign?
superlightr said:
Is the maintenance agreement setting out the cost they want you to pay towards the communal bits? If they want you to pay for things then its in their own interests to send you the agreement I would have thought.
is there communal water/elec or cost of such ie paying for easement for the provision of water/sewage/elc or own meters and paying the park?
Perhaps just ask them again that you want to pay your maintenance part that's due can they invoice you/send the agreement they want you to sign.
leave it in their court. offer to pay the maintenance, ask for the contract they want you to sign.
The maintenance charge has been paid for this year by the previous owner (whom I reimbursed) is there communal water/elec or cost of such ie paying for easement for the provision of water/sewage/elc or own meters and paying the park?
Perhaps just ask them again that you want to pay your maintenance part that's due can they invoice you/send the agreement they want you to sign.
leave it in their court. offer to pay the maintenance, ask for the contract they want you to sign.
Edited by superlightr on Wednesday 21st February 17:15
Electricity is via a meter which is emptied by the site, water is a yearly charge
When I told him I wanted a schedule of charges before I paid him, he said he would cut the water and electricity to the chalet until the £100 was paid.
He is one of these people that gets very shouty whenever you question anything he says
I have begrudgingly paid the £100 as the site opens next week and I will be renting it out as a holiday let and I don't need any issues
I did however make it quite clear in writing that it was paid under protest and if I found out he had charged the money unlawfully I would sue him for it's return
You need to look at what it says about this in the relevant transfer.
The entires against your freehold title at the Land Registry will probably refer to the transfer of part that originally created your plot out of a larger site, which will contain all the provisions regarding maintenance of the estate etc, including, most likely, what you have to do when the ownership of the plot changes.
The original transfer should be available from the Land Registry.
The entires against your freehold title at the Land Registry will probably refer to the transfer of part that originally created your plot out of a larger site, which will contain all the provisions regarding maintenance of the estate etc, including, most likely, what you have to do when the ownership of the plot changes.
The original transfer should be available from the Land Registry.
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