Joint freeholder query

Milliebear

Member

Join Date: Feb 2019

Posts: 2
#1

Joint freeholder query

09-02-2019, 19:41 PM

Hi. I wonder if anyone can advise. I live in a flat in a converted house. There are two flats, mine which is ground floor and my neighbours who live in the flat above. We are 50% joint freeholders of the building. I have been living here for aprox 4 years, my upstairs neighbours moved in a year ago.
Shortly after they moved in they found they had a leak in the roof. It turned out that a hip joint on the roof was damaged/missing (apparently it could be seen from the road). They got a quote to get this sorted and have claimed their share from their surveyor who missed it. The surveyor has stated that as I'm a joint freeholder I am responsible for half the costs.
Is this correct? And if so, how would I, as the ground floor flat owner ever be protected please.
Tags: None
Lawcruncher

Senior Member

Join Date: Jun 2008

Posts: 14507
#2

09-02-2019, 20:24 PM

It depends on what the leases say about repairing the area in question and who pays for it.
Comment
Milliebear

Member

Join Date: Feb 2019

Posts: 2
#3

09-02-2019, 21:07 PM

Yes, thought as much. The repairs are split 50/50. I should have had my own survey done of the roof when I bought the groundfloor flat. It's the first flat I've bought so I didn't realise the pitfalls. Thanks for your reply.
Comment

Previous Next

Theft from Property

LandlordBlues

Having issues with a tenant who stole from the property, how have people got on with this are the police interested or do they just call it a civil matter?
- Channel: Residential Letting Questions
29-06-2019, 20:57 PM
Reply to Theft from Property

Lawcruncher

Your best bet if you know where the tenants are is to sue them.
- Channel: Residential Letting Questions
21-07-2019, 15:13 PM
Interior Designers for Rentals?

midlandslandlord

Has anybody ever used one? What was your experience?

(I can see the relevance - maybe - for new Build to Rent developments, or certain refurbs, or for paticular requirements.)

Thoughts?

ML
- Channel: Residential Letting Questions
20-07-2019, 07:16 AM
Reply to Interior Designers for Rentals?

Hudson01

I have never used one, although my properties are well above standard in terms of decor i am still on the outskirts of Manchester and my ROI would not be enhanced by shelling out for the fees, i would say if your in London or similar in something high end ..... maybe, but otherwise i see it as a vanity...
- Channel: Residential Letting Questions
21-07-2019, 14:41 PM
Abolishing s21 - new government proposal

jpkeates

Well, this is interesting!

https://www.gov.uk/government/consul...ds-and-tenants

The government's been consulting on changing or abolishing s21 and has now published its proposed...
- Channel: Residential Letting Questions
21-07-2019, 08:50 AM
Reply to Abolishing s21 - new government proposal

Hudson01

This is the real issue with long term rent, my mortgage has an end date (well before i retire), if you rent your in real trouble with just the state pension and maybe (if your lucky) some kind of private pension coming in, The kind of low level and low income jobs out there which the current generation...
- Channel: Residential Letting Questions
21-07-2019, 14:26 PM
Reply to Abolishing s21 - new government proposal

jpkeates

When Mrs T came to power, about half of households rented.
Now it's a fifth.

She transformed landlords from social housing providers and some rich owners into something that everyone (except local authorities) could do.
And, sadly in a lot of cases, everyone has....
- Channel: Residential Letting Questions
21-07-2019, 13:17 PM
Reply to Abolishing s21 - new government proposal

jpkeates

Totally agree with this.

There's an entitled belief that housing is a human right, which is somehow conflated with the idea that a wonderful home with a garden in a nice area for little money is a human right....
- Channel: Residential Letting Questions
21-07-2019, 13:15 PM
tenants defaulting on electricity bill, landlord ends up paying !

langlin

Morning,

I had been the landlord of a flat until around 2 years ago, when I sold it. The final tenant, after they had left and had their deposit returned, we found had not paid any electricity (or gas) bills throughout their tenancy. This did not come to light until a while after they...
- Channel: Residential Letting Questions
20-07-2019, 10:43 AM
Reply to tenants defaulting on electricity bill, landlord ends up paying !

langlin

Thankyou all. You are all correct. Hudson01 hit it exactly. BG are not (yet) threatening a bailiff, they are merely threatening to pass it to a debt collection agency (my misinterpretation). After having written the original thread, I looked back at my records (my memory was hazy when I wrote yesterday)....
- Channel: Residential Letting Questions
21-07-2019, 12:52 PM

Joint freeholder query

Comment

Comment

Latest Activity