We live in a small building with only 7 flats all privately own (3 of us live here and 4 buy to let, all freehold). Buy to let owners have been mostly ok up to now (could tell you some stories, but not relevant right now) The 3 of us who live here run the building as a society and keep service charges and expenses low (lowest in the area) at no extra cost for all (we 3 do this voluntarily)
Mostly smooth sailing until the owner of Flat 1, who also owns a local chicken shop, started making copies of our garage gate (we all share a parking space in the back) to his employees. This was already spoken about in a recent owners meeting and all the owners agreed (he did too) that as the space is limited we should all subscribe a one vehicle per flat rule. So far so good but...
The greedy fucker (Flat 1) keeps using the shared space as his private business parking ( apparently something has changed in his usual public parking area) issuing fraudulent key copies and parking up to 2 extra cars (his and one of his staff) with no prior consent... He is already renting the property (doesn't live here) and his tenants already have one car.
Any advice of how to legally deal with this guy once and for all? Today I stood my ground and sent one of his guys (a first timer) back to look for street parking among shouts... but I'm afraid we need a more solid tactic
Could it be as simple as changing the locks and issuing new keys to the rest of the flat and tell flat 1 to not give a copy to the landlord? I assume the cost would be split between all the flats so arsey landlord may refuse to pay.
We already thought of those kind of options (keys, notes, removing tire pressure...) but we rather set some solid rules and precedents. Specially seeing how vulnerable our little utopia seems to be to the other (buy to let) owners' greed!
We live in a small building with only 7 flats all privately own (3 of us live here and 4 buy to let, all freehold). Buy to let owners have been mostly ok up to now (could tell you some stories, but not relevant right now) The 3 of us who live here run the building as a society and keep service charges and expenses low (lowest in the area) at no extra cost for all (we 3 do this voluntarily)
Mostly smooth sailing until the owner of Flat 1, who also owns a local chicken shop, started making copies of our garage gate (we all share a parking space in the back) to his employees. This was already spoken about in a recent owners meeting and all the owners agreed (he did too) that as the space is limited we should all subscribe a one vehicle per flat rule. So far so good but...
The greedy fucker (Flat 1) keeps using the shared space as his private business parking ( apparently something has changed in his usual public parking area) issuing fraudulent key copies and parking up to 2 extra cars (his and one of his staff) with no prior consent... He is already renting the property (doesn't live here) and his tenants already have one car.
Any advice of how to legally deal with this guy once and for all? Today I stood my ground and sent one of his guys (a first timer) back to look for street parking among shouts... but I'm afraid we need a more solid tactic