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Housing association rent decrease and service charge

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  • Our service charge is for eligible services but after reading the link it would seem that House of Lords/parliament can't agree on what's right so although we end up paying more this year with the 1% coming off combined rent/service charge maybe we will benefit next year if our service charge goes back up again.
  • t0rt0ise
    t0rt0ise Posts: 4,656 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Write to them and don't explain it the way you have here because that is confusing. Simply say that as you are supposed to get a 1% reduction in the rent which was £157.70 last year, should it not therefore be £156.12 this coming year and not the sum they state. Forget about the service charge, that just confuses the issue.
  • Minniemegs
    Minniemegs Posts: 5 Forumite
    edited 4 March 2016 at 9:04PM
    Yes that's what I'm going to do, think I've confused enough people lol !
  • Shelldean
    Shelldean Posts: 2,449 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    our rent and service charge have reduced. So I'm actually quite pleased.
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