£100 ground rent arrears - Section 146 for possession
Hello, I am a single property landlord having had to move out of my own property due to moving far away for work. I have let out my flat now for a few years and for the first time am in arrears due to...
View ArticleServing Section 22, Landlord and Tenant Act
Hello, Is it possible to serve a preliminary notice, application for the appointment of a new manager, to the freeholder (also 1st floor leaseholder) of a 2 bedroom converted house? For breaches in...
View ArticleMaintenance or Improvement?
I live in a building converted into 3 flats, and up until recently each flat was served from a common gas supply and the tenants divided the single gas bill among themselves. New tenants moved into two...
View ArticleSolicitors have started court proceedings without issuing a S146 notice
Hi, Our tenant hasn't paid their ground rent £400 including fees it's £650. We have instructed our Solicitors to start recovery, we have a hearing for forfeiture of the lease. I can't see an S146...
View ArticleEscalating Ground Rent and Purchase of Freehold
Hi, I am looking to purchase a property valued at £675,000 but am quite hesitant to proceed after learning of the ground rent provisions in the lease. The relevant provisions are set out below: Lease...
View ArticleAccess for section 42 Notice
Hi everyone, I received a section 42 notice but now the leaseholder is not giving access to my surveyor. What can I do. Any help will be most appreciated.
View ArticleUnderstanding service charge accounts
Hi all, Our lease states a covenant on part of the management company is keeping proper records of all costs charges and expenses incurred in carrying out the obligations imposed by the schedule and...
View ArticleGetting overcharged by local authority for roof repair
Hello everybody, Just wanted to see if anybody can help as I feel like somebody is really trying to pull a fast one. Couple of years a go I get a letter saying that the LA was going to resurface the...
View ArticleSection 20 contribution
When we receive the service charge the amounts are shown as a percentage, major works are being proposed and we will need to contribute. Will the amount payable divided by the amount of flats or is the...
View ArticleGuidance Please
Hi All, I am new to this. I have a leasehold property and i have owned it since 2005. I paid ground rent in the first year and then the freeholder disappeared. an issue arose where I had to trace him...
View ArticleAny pit-falls post agreeing the purchase of our Freehold?
Hello, In a block with 3 flats we have struck an agreement, as of last week, to buy the Freehold from the current Freeholder. We have agreed a price and our solicitors are following-through. Are there...
View ArticleParking Bay reallocated by Freeholder without given a reason
Hi all, I'm new here and really appreciated if I would be able to get some advice. I purchased a parking bay or say "a right to park" as it's an underground car park for the building where my flat is....
View ArticleCan a new freeholder sack a leaseholder management company?
Our freeholder is selling the freehold for a block of seven flats. He has offered leaseholders the opportunity to create a new management company, and all are keen to go for this. However, we don't...
View ArticleRTM set-up- apathetic freeholders
Hi everyone, I'm new to Landlors Zone, and would greatly appreciate your help. I, along with 5 others, own the share of freehold of a 6 flat building. The building needs to have some maintenance works...
View ArticleNo sublet clause
I'm hoping this will be an easy one for those in the know. We've let a leasehold house we (my wife and I) own and have realised following the event that we might have been required to inform the...
View ArticleBenefits of extending a lease to 999 on a share of freehiold
Hi, My neighbor and I bought out the freehold and now both one a share of freehold. The current lease has about 80-81 years remaining. Is there any benefit of extending the lease to 999 years?...
View ArticleFire safety - thoughts for Private Blocks of Flats Landlords post Grenfell Point
In the case of Grenfell Point the fire became a catastrophe, it would seem, because the cladding caught light and was not fire stopped between floors. It burnt like a torch. It may well prove to be the...
View ArticleWhat is a accumulated surplus/deficit account?
Hi All, Trying to understand Service Charge accounts and need advice as to what an accumulated surplus/deficit account is? This has suddenly appeared in our Service Charge accounts summary and I am at...
View ArticleDemise question
My boiler flu is broken and needs replacing. The external wall it runs out to is outside of my demise in my lease. HOWEVER, The following is included within the clause that defines my flat's Demise:...
View ArticleWhy no commas in long leaseshold interests
Why does each clause have no comma or fullstop!!! Are lawyers purposely trying to confuse the ordinary man?
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