Owning your own home

Anyone have any horror stories about freeholders (deliberately) fucking up your apartment sale?

Feel free to share. Need to know what I might be getting myself into.

Not by a freeholder, but an RTM company tried to screw up the sale of a flat by a client of mine by refusing to produce a leasehold information pack.

The RTM company was pissed off because they'd tried to gouge a swinging fee from my client - who was building a new flat on the roof of the existing building - as a result of some minor changes to the flat being built by my client, who had been granted a building lease of the airspace above the roof by the freeholder. My client managed to avoid that - and prevented the RTM company from generally making a nuisance of itself - by some fancy legal footwork (though I say it myself) which yours truly came up with. As a result, the RTM company was trying to get their own back. In the end we got most of the information we wanted, but it was a long, painful and (for the client) expensive process.

Most freeholders are sufficiently sensible and commercial that if you bung them a relatively modest amount of cash they'll play ball. But not always.

Moral of the story, as ever, is to buy a freehold house. Unhelpful but sound advice.