Welcome to the sister site of Leasehold Life where I have not only written about the problems faced by our block before we secured RTM but what we have faced since then.
Taking over a block that had sustained the best part of two decades of neglect because the freeholder was inside for Customs and Excise fraud and the managing agents (family members) said the block was nothing to do with them wasn’t easy. My picture gallery shows what we inherited and what we are doing and when they say a picture paints a thousand words, they are not kidding!
Whilst we are in a better place than we were (our RMC now owns the block through compulsory acquisition), we are not yet out of the woods, far from it.
We have service charge arrears, landlord and tenant issues (largely due to the subletting clauses in the lease continually being ignored in the conveyancing process) and local authorities that don’t seem to want any involvement with us, despite housing the homeless under Private Sector Leasing and housing other benefit tenants with no checks on either the landlord or the property.
Having said all that, I am kept reasonably sane by the view from my front door, even though my neighbours might not be so impressed with theirs!