Freeholders being taken for a ride?

ha ha wise to be cautious, I am not an axe murderer but if you send email details I will give you more info – you can even set up one so that I don’t know your normal one.

Reply to the comment left by “Puzzler ” at “10/05/2016 – 15:31“:

Puzzler
The owners are 98 percent absent – the flats are all let otherwise I would. I understand the resident owners are family of the manager.

£9000 on self management to the 4 directors must be wrong!

Please Let me know when u r in my area: [email protected]

If there is a charge of more than £250 per flat then it is necessary to issue a Section 20 notice detailing alternative quotes obtained and giving leaseholders an opportunity to comment. If correct procedure is not followed then leaseholder’s cost limited to £250 in respect of that expense.
You should contact Lease as a leaseholder and ask about this, also a lot of information on their website.

I sent the real McCoy J’get it?

Off to tesco

Reply to the comment left by “Ingrid Bacsa” at “09/05/2016 – 19:08“:

“£500 fee” equals £9000 across all flats.

Reply to the comment left by “Puzzler ” at “09/05/2016 – 19:32“:

“£12000 per year” is approximately the £700 per flat per year..

Reply to the comment left by “Michael Barnes” at “11/05/2016 – 10:06“:

Yes Michael but should u read the chain here we also pay 500 each of 18 flats, providing a £9000 fee just for the manager as well, he is also a flat owner !

Reply to the comment left by “Ingrid Bacsa” at “11/05/2016 – 11:48“:

I have read the whole thread.
My 10:06 comment was to puzzler who was querying if £12000 was a typo (I assumed a reference to your original post).
My 10:00 post was a reply to your post where you said “we were told the new manager would only charge a £500 fee“. I was attempting to point out that he may have meant “additional £500 per flat” which gives the £9000 about which you are (rightly) concerned. On re-reading your post, I can see that you probably had already twigged this.

I think the actions you describe by that person are outrageous, but I do not have any advice beyond that already given.

So far, replies have been very helpful … but
I sTiLL have no idea whether i have a LEGAL right to receive access from the Limited Company Management to the contact details of the 17 fellow freeholders of the apartment complex, of which we are all registered shareholders and leaseholders and freeholders – or which body or organization would know the answer, so that I could throw this at the Manager.

Ok. Will go the land registry route – and charge for my time. Who will then tell the Manager I cant legally do this?

I’ve only just seen this thread. Regarding establishing who the other freeholders/leaseholders are: the other posters are correct in saying you would need to get this information from Land Registry, as the management company is likely to be in violation of data protection legislation by passing you this, whereas Land Registry data is available to the public under the Land Registration Act 2002, which saw the introduction of the open register.

However, getting this from Land Registry is as you say likely to be expensive, as it’s £3 per registered title. Also, the property owner’s contact address is often wrong on registers as most solicitors simply either give their client’s current address (that they’re moving out of) or assume they live at the property, when (for example) they’re a BTL landlord. LR do some bespoke mass searches, but for ownership information I understand these are currently only available for large organisations.

I would therefore suggest either printing off a short note you post through the doors asking the owners to get in touch with you, and for any tenant to pass it to their landlord, or perhaps use a site such as Street Life, asking any freeholders to contact you.