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tell him you'll take him to court for failure to pay and see if that shuts him up?
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A couple of years back three of us leaseholders bought the freehold, excluding the ground floor flat owner
How did you achieve that? Are you 100% sure that the deal to buy the freehold didn’t disturb the 40/15/15/15/15 deal somehow?
If he starts quibbling the charges you have to go to tribunal I suppose - as freeholder you will probably win as long as you followed procedure; in that case you can require him to pay your costs as well.
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Did you set up a management company for the block?
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This is more of a Bastard Neighbours rant than a request for advice, but if anyone has any I'm all ears.
Ask him what a 15% (or equal split) lease is worth him in £££
Actually what a ball ache that would be to sort out, ignore
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There are five flats in our building. Building expenses are split 15/15/15/15/40 with the ground floor flat (converted from a shop) paying the 40%, which is written explicitly into the lease (and the 15% into everyone else's leases).
A couple of years back three of us leaseholders bought the freehold, excluding the ground floor flat owner. He's now being arsey and complaining he's on the hook for 40%, and withholding his portion of payment and questioning every expense and threatening to take us to tribunal. I think he's bluffing and would lose any legal action over the 40%, but he has real leverage in terms of refusing to pay service fees.
(I don't think it matters whether the 40% is fair or not, but it was in his lease for him to see when he bought it, and has been since 1987)
This is more of a Bastard Neighbours rant than a request for advice, but if anyone has any I'm all ears.
Fucking landlords.