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Service Charges and Leaseholds

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  • anon_private
    anon_private Posts: 171 Forumite
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    BrassicWoman wrote: »
    My lease precludes those. It'd be a right PITA if everyone was taing their cars to bits and getting oil on the tarmac and revving engines - not really an activity suited to flats. If tinkering with cars is your thing, best get a garage?

    In practice, it would be an occasional activity for those residents capable of doing the work, and it does not need to involve mess. There are many mobile mechanics who work on the premises and never leave any sign that they have even been present.

    Why do you associate car repairs, etc, with mess?
  • NeilCr
    NeilCr Posts: 4,430 Forumite
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    anon_private wrote: »
    In practice, it would be an occasional activity for those residents capable of doing the work, and it does not need to involve mess. There are many mobile mechanics who work on the premises and never leave any sign that they have even been present.

    Why do you associate car repairs, etc, with mess?

    Thing is that may be true of you and mobile mechanics but may not be so for other residents. Those who think they know what they are doing but actually don't.

    If they see someone breaking a covenant they will feel completely justified in joining in and, quite likely, making a mess

    I've no idea what the parking bays are like at the property you are thinking of buying. Ours are actually in a car park and, practically, it would be very difficult to do a lot of work on a car
  • anon_private
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    NeilCr wrote: »
    Thing is that may be true of you and mobile mechanics but may not be so for other residents. Those who think they know what they are doing but actually don't.

    If they see someone breaking a covenant they will feel completely justified in joining in and, quite likely, making a mess

    I've no idea what the parking bays are like at the property you are thinking of buying. Ours are actually in a car park and, practically, it would be very difficult to do a lot of work on a car

    I assume that you check and topup your oil and water, and keep the car clean.
  • NeilCr
    NeilCr Posts: 4,430 Forumite
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    anon_private wrote: »
    I assume that you check and topup your oil and water, and keep the car clean.

    Yep

    Which is why I said it would be difficult to do a lot of work on a car - not no work
  • BrassicWoman
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    anon_private wrote: »
    In practice, it would be an occasional activity for those residents capable of doing the work, and it does not need to involve mess. There are many mobile mechanics who work on the premises and never leave any sign that they have even been present.

    Why do you associate car repairs, etc, with mess?



    Because I've lived next to pistolheads. In fairness the management company invoiced them for cleaning up the oil stains, but they were NOT good neighbours with their baked bean can exhausts speeding off to work at 6am... so very very happy when they moved!


    Quiet neighbours and tidy neighbours are good neighbours :)
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  • kingstreet
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    BrassicWoman wrote: »
    Because I've lived next to pistolheads
    Hopefully you meant petrol heads...?
    I am a mortgage broker. You should note that this site doesn't check my status as a Mortgage Adviser, so you need to take my word for it. This signature is here as I follow MSE's Mortgage Adviser Code of Conduct. Any posts on here are for information and discussion purposes only and shouldn't be seen as financial advice. Please do not send PMs asking for one-to-one-advice, or representation.
  • anon_private
    anon_private Posts: 171 Forumite
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    I have just been looking at the adverts for flats in the same block. The service charges appear to vary by a factor of two. It is the same block. can anyone explain?
  • BrassicWoman
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    anon_private wrote: »
    I have just been looking at the adverts for flats in the same block. The service charges appear to vary by a factor of two. It is the same block. can anyone explain?

    No. Ask the freeholder.
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  • BrassicWoman
    BrassicWoman Posts: 3,202 Forumite
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    kingstreet wrote: »
    Hopefully you meant petrol heads...?

    Brain melted in the heat!!
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  • TrickyDicky101
    TrickyDicky101 Posts: 3,513 Forumite
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    kingstreet wrote: »
    Hopefully you meant petrol heads...?

    Sometimes the blood stains can be even more difficult to get out than the oil stains ;)
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