Hi everyone,
I would highly appreciate any contribution to this post.
I'll get straight to the point: I am a leaseholder in a block of 8 flats in Leeds. One of the flats belongs to the Freehold owner (Landlord). Ever since I purchased this property we were dealing with a rather deceitful, unreliable and totally untrustworthy management property company appointed by the Freeholder.
Recently, I have received an email from the Management Company stating that the exterior and the communal interior is due for renovation as it is every 8 years or so. They went ahead and issued Section 20, appointed their own surveyor without the leaseholder's consent and consequently provided three contractor quotes which are three times higher than the ongoing rates in our area.
I went through my leasehold agreement and it clearly stipulates that the Landlord is responsible for Exterior redecoration and the Roof. And that the only responsibility leaseholder bears is to do with the internal walls of the flat. The walls dividing the flat and the hallway is the mutual responsibility of the landlord and the leaseholder respectively.
There are no clauses stipulating that the leaseholder must pay for exterior renovation works. It is also nowhere to be found in my lease agreement that in the case of Sinking and Reserved funds both having insufficient amount to pay for such works, the payment should be recovered from the leaseholder in full.
Now when I presented that excerpt from my leas agreement to the property management company they said that I am wrong, that I am in fact liable to pay for those works and that "this is how it's done in this country".
Now am I right to think that the Leaseholder and the Landlord are bound by the Leaseholder Agreement and therefore shall act accordingly within the scope of the agreement? To simplify is the property management company taking me for an idiot and should I, in this case, seek legal advice?
I would highly appreciate any contribution to this post.
I'll get straight to the point: I am a leaseholder in a block of 8 flats in Leeds. One of the flats belongs to the Freehold owner (Landlord). Ever since I purchased this property we were dealing with a rather deceitful, unreliable and totally untrustworthy management property company appointed by the Freeholder.
Recently, I have received an email from the Management Company stating that the exterior and the communal interior is due for renovation as it is every 8 years or so. They went ahead and issued Section 20, appointed their own surveyor without the leaseholder's consent and consequently provided three contractor quotes which are three times higher than the ongoing rates in our area.
I went through my leasehold agreement and it clearly stipulates that the Landlord is responsible for Exterior redecoration and the Roof. And that the only responsibility leaseholder bears is to do with the internal walls of the flat. The walls dividing the flat and the hallway is the mutual responsibility of the landlord and the leaseholder respectively.
There are no clauses stipulating that the leaseholder must pay for exterior renovation works. It is also nowhere to be found in my lease agreement that in the case of Sinking and Reserved funds both having insufficient amount to pay for such works, the payment should be recovered from the leaseholder in full.
Now when I presented that excerpt from my leas agreement to the property management company they said that I am wrong, that I am in fact liable to pay for those works and that "this is how it's done in this country".
Now am I right to think that the Leaseholder and the Landlord are bound by the Leaseholder Agreement and therefore shall act accordingly within the scope of the agreement? To simplify is the property management company taking me for an idiot and should I, in this case, seek legal advice?
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