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Why is it never simple? Everything else moving on quite well then my solicitors email me to say they can't get hold of our freeholders' solicitors. Sure enough, no answer on the phone number and other flat owners now saying the same thing. Despite being in contact with them last year. Feck. Solicitor's paralegal then asks me what to do next so I suggest they write to each of the freeholders (a group of siblings who I imagine inherited the freehold) as their names and addresses are all listed on the paperwork from when we extended the lease a couple of years ago. "Oh, yeah, I'll do that". Tempted to rock up on one of their doorsteps as he lives in Sevenoaks.
I asked what the worst case scenario would be and the solicitor didn't seem phased, being sure she could get in touch with them but did say we could get an absent landlord indemnity policy if necessary. Which I wouldn't mind doing, but it's not the landlord(s) that's absent, it's their solicitor.