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Howard
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.