Unreasonable charges from management company

Dai.Webb

Hello.


My wife and I purchased our new build freehold house 6 years ago. We were advised by the sales lady at the time that we'd have to pay about £60 a year to maintain some acquacells for drainage (not in our garden), which we thought was reasonable.


It took about 2 years for us to receive a letter from the management company introducing themselves; they included a letter and an invoice for far more than we had knowingly agreed to (road maintenance, public liability insurance, etc).


Over a period of time these have all been removed from the invoice (the acquacells don't need maintenance as they are buried and inaccessible, the council have adopted the road so no maintenance required).


Now the only item on the invoice is "Bank Charges" at a cost of £70 per year! As they don't provide any tangible services how on earth can this be fair? While they do provide minimal services to other houses in the development (hedge cutting, etc) why should we have to pay for bank charges?


Is there anything we can do to get out of this? I don't really want to go down the route of setting up our own management company.


Thanks in advance!
Dai

G_M

You need to read your documentation.


What atters is not whether your house specifically receice a service, but whether you have agreed to sharing the cost of communal services (eg the hedge cutting).


If you quote here the full wording in your Property Title, and/or any other dcument you agreed to, then we can advise.