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Say these freeholders aren't aware of their privilege to ignore a poor waif like myself, what phrases could I drop into conversation so, how you say, shit them up a bit?
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Say these freeholders aren't aware of their privilege to ignore a poor waif like myself, what phrases could I drop into conversation so, how you say, shit them up a bit?
You could always point out that section 1 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1988 imposes statutory duties on landlords where the tenant wishes to assign (i.e. sell) their lease. Those statutory duties might not arise in your case - it would depend on the drafting of the covenant against alienation in your lease - and even if they did apply then they wouldn't require the landlord to fill in an LPE1 form. They might well not know that though.
Brommers
One of the many problems with the current leasehold system is that the law and lease-drafting practice hasn't kept up with conveyancing practice. Lenders and buyers invariably want the vendor of a leasehold property to get their landlord to complete an LPE1 form. That's perfectly understandable, but the problem is that I've never seen a lease which requires the landlord to complete an LPE1 form on request, and there's no statutory duty on them to do so. So if you can't trace the landlord, or if the landlord simply says 'fuck off, shan't, don't wanna wanna' there's not a great deal you can do about it.