£900 admin / legal charges for an unadmitted breach

[Benzo]

Totally with you. I replied this morning saying they need to provide more information on these 'breaches', and with an exact breakdown of the work, plus the justification for charging arrears on somethign which was only invoiced last week. Once I get that clarity and assuming my assumption is correct...

[Benzo]

Great point. Their MA said that in his opinion it was a breach at the start of the year, I disagreed. Then six months later I got an email from the MA and the Lawyer within a day of each other. The lawyer was the first to mention S146 proceedings. Would this count?...

[Benzo]

I think you guys might be right. I will ask them what the charges are for, what work was done to incur them, ask them to remove if I'm not satisfied with their answers, and make an application to FTT if they still fail to be reasonable....

[Benzo]

That makes sense. Do you think there's any sense in pursuing the complaints procedure before going to Tribunal? Some advice I received suggested it'd make me look more reasonable than going straight to litigation!...

[Benzo]

Thanks eagle2 . This place is an excellent resource and I want to be respectful of it.

Would it be better for me to apply to the Tribunal for this determination, or should I make an offer and suggest the MA / Lawyer does so if they're not happy with it?...

[Benzo]

Sorry if I've caused offence, leaseholder64 - I only included the background for context, not to go over it again - I agree that the clause in the lease has been debated to death. There's no point discussing the dogs because the dogs are gone.

The purpose of this thread is around these...

[Benzo]

Hello everyone

About six months ago I asked to get some advice here after receiving lawyer's letters about my foster dogs, which had not previously been an issue before residents began the right to manage process. The letters were stated to have been triggered under the S146 forfeiture...

[Benzo]

It's good advice and you're almost certainly right, and I know responding to this emotionally is not usually productive. But I am so angry. In the last week alone I've had to kick out two weed smokers from our communal areas, I've had to comfort a neighbour who's been utterly terrified of two guys looking...

[Benzo]

Just got this:



I think I will be making a complaint to ARMA. I had nothing to do with this painting (in fact I'd have preferred if it weren't done) and I will not be threatened....

[Benzo]

Now there's an idea. Right now we've told them the legal costs are not accepted and that they'll need apply to Tribunal for a determination of same. Nothing incoming yet.

Honestly I just want to get out from under these people and draw a line under it. But I'll do some reading on your suggestion....

[Benzo]

Every cloud!...

[Benzo]

Hello! As a general principle, anything below 80 years gets complex as below 80 years the concept of 'marriage value' becomes part of the extension premium, and as there's no clearly defined way of stating that value, it tends to be down to lawyers shouting at each other, which can get expensive. So...

[Benzo]

We won the RTM following a counterclaim from the FH at Tribunal this September. The FH applied for leave to appeal to the FTT, which was denied, so he's logged a claim at the upper lands chamber to appeal there.

They tried to charge us £5k in legals for the FTT preparation (as RTM is ostensibly...

[Benzo]

We did actually bring this to their attention. We've been saying for years that the paint needs to be fixed, nothing doing, certainly since I've lived there (year and a half). Just seems absurd to threaten forfeiture when residents were trying to reduce the strain on the managing agents. The guys in...

[Benzo]

Hi all, me again. Received what I think is a shockingly inappropriate response from my MA a moment ago, and I'm considering complaining to ARMA about it. Could you let me know if you think this is as absurd as I do?...

[Benzo]

Good for that guy. I think most people would be too intimidated to do this as they'll only get caught elsewhere but great that the Tribunal came down on the LH side.

[Benzo]

Thanks all, and thanks eagle2 . There WAS correspondence between the leaseholder and the solicitor in which the leaseholder expressed that she would pay the ground rent / service charge but disputed the solicitors fees. The solicitor was certainly aware that their fees were disputed, which I suppose...