Leasehold property - parking problems

Fire_Fox

continualdiamond wrote: »

I don't pay anything else except the £15 ground rent each year.

The management company also sends me a bill for buildings insurance and its paid yearly.

So who pays to maintain communal facilities like the roof? And how is the management company covering it's costs for organising insurance and fielding phone calls about parking?

g_attrill

You really need to find what the colours on the plan mean. If you have excusive use of a certain space then it is definitely a good idea to put up a sign and/or paint the flat number on the space (get permission for both), it will solve all your problems. Then if people do park you can leave a note explaining that your lease gives you exclusive use of that space.

The problem is that your OH probably has no right to park on the grass, and if the management company take a close look at the parking you might find he has to park elsewhere.

continualdiamond

We dont have any communal facilities and as nothing of the roof is mentioned for my flat i assume upstairs is responsible for it.

This is a pic of a property like mine to show what all the flats are like.



I don't mind if my OH has to park elsewhere, he can easily park around the corner.

I have no idea where the management company gets its cover costs from, my letter regarding building insurance will state that they've heard from the freeholder and £££ is my portion of the cost.

techno12

continualdiamond wrote: »

We dont have any communal facilities and as nothing of the roof is mentioned for my flat i assume upstairs is responsible for it.

Nope. Everyone is responsble for it as it's part of the 'fabric' of the building. I'm in a leasehold basement flat, yet still had to pay £4k a few years ago as my share of the cost of re-roofing the entire building. Annoying, but that's how it works. The £750 you're paying in maintenance each year ought to cover things like this as well as insurance for the building (in our case we had to stump up that extra one-off cost as it was a very expensive job and we had a useless management company who weren't doing regular maintenance, but that's a whole other story!)

continualdiamond

Do you mean the £750 that is collected from all the properties paying £15 a year ground rent? I myself do not pay £750.

Just: £15 a year ground rent + £188.83 for buildings ins in Sept which is for 1 year.

None of the residents control building insurance, it is all sorted by the freeholder and then obviously the leasehold company sends us all a bill. We've been here 3 years but way before we moved in apparently every owner was able to insure the building with whoever they wanted, but then that option was taken away.

Fire_Fox

continualdiamond wrote: »

We dont have any communal facilities and as nothing of the roof is mentioned for my flat i assume upstairs is responsible for it.

This is a pic of a property like mine to show what all the flats are like.

I don't mind if my OH has to park elsewhere, he can easily park around the corner.

I have no idea where the management company gets its cover costs from, my letter regarding building insurance will state that they've heard from the freeholder and £££ is my portion of the cost.

Do you mean the £750 that is collected from all the properties paying £15 a year ground rent? I myself do not pay £750.

Just: £15 a year ground rent + £188.83 for buildings ins in Sept which is for 1 year.

None of the residents control building insurance, it is all sorted by the freeholder and then obviously the leasehold company sends us all a bill. We've been here 3 years but way before we moved in apparently every owner was able to insure the building with whoever they wanted, but then that option was taken away.

Have you read your long lease? It will say who is responsible for maintaining the roof/ walls/ guttering/ foundations/ windows - usually (but not always) this is shared between all the properties. The freeholder can't just remove an option to insure individually, again who organises what will be specified in your long lease.

continualdiamond

Will have a read of it firefox, just going on my old next door neighbour telling me that she used to insure her property for both building/contents ins thus being able to have a saving with being with 1 insurance company, then she said the leasehold management company started sending bills for building insurance.

She lived at the property from 1991 until a year ago.

marcg

Maybe over-petty but:
http://bollardwarehouse.com/img/img_home_rgt.jpg
(collapsible bollard)
You'd need managment company approval to install but all should be cheap. I'd be worried about someone taking offence to the van on the communal grass though.