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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.
NickCJ-
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?
We trusted an expensive solicitor to sort it all for us, so obviously they will have taken care of that...
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.
Alas our charging regime has been a bit shambolic, so we might have a problem there.
grams
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.