Leasehold Management Company legal costs

G_M

venomizer wrote: »

My willingness to volunteer my time depends on how much of my time it might take up. With no prior experience of this I'm fairly in the dark.

How long is a pece of string!? Factors include

* How big is the building - number of flats?
* how many flats are let on tenancies by overseas landlords (leaseholders) and how many are resident leaseholders?
* what kind of people are they? Well-off, busy, don't care about the costs, or time-rich, cash-strapped so willing to save money by volunteering
* do any of them have relevant expertise eg is one a solicitor? Accountant? Estate agent etc

In an active building, where jobs can be shared around and a few people have specialist knowledge, your own input could be useful but negligible - turn up to some meetgs, help make some decisions.

Or you could end up doing everything yourself. Not uncommon and often a thankless task!

eddddy

G_M wrote: »

Personally I'd be advocating the bill be sent in full to the leaseholder who brought and then withdrew the case, thus incurring these legal costs.

Which is a nice idea, except that the leaseholder doesn't have to pay it - so they probably won't.

The leaseholder only has to pay what their lease says they have to pay.

As I'm sure you know, you cannot make the other party pay your legal costs - unless a court orders it, or you have some kind of agreement from the other party.

NeilCr

G_M wrote: »

How long is a pece of string!? Factors include

* How big is the building - number of flats?
* how many flats are let on tenancies by overseas landlords (leaseholders) and how many are resident leaseholders?
* what kind of people are they? Well-off, busy, don't care about the costs, or time-rich, cash-strapped so willing to save money by volunteering
* do any of them have relative expertise eg is one a solicitor? Accountant? Estate agent etc

In an active building, where jobs can be shared around and a few people have specialist knowledge, your own input could be useful but negligible - turn up to some meetgs, help make some decisions.

Or you could end up doing everything yourself. Not uncommon and often a thankless task!

To be honest if you get the right connection with the management company it’s not that onerous

We have four directors meetings (plus an AGM) a year and keep in email contact at other times. Specialist knowledge helps but it’s not essential. A dose of common sense and a strong feeling for what other residents want is more pertinent in my opinion

G_M

eddddy wrote: »

Which is a nice idea, except that the leaseholder doesn't have to pay it - so they probably won't.

The leaseholder only has to pay what their lease says they have to pay.

As I'm sure you know, you cannot make the other party pay your legal costs - unless a court orders it, or you have some kind of agreement from the other party.

Indeed. But still no reason not to ask that leaseholder to pay. Morally they should, and there's always the possibility they will.

But if they refuse, I don't recommend starting legal action against them!