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Large bill from management company
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How does the lease define the Building, the common parts, and what are the services in the Third Schedule?CleverFable said:I'm not sure if they've loaded
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I appreciate that I will also have to contribute to bills and have done in the 8 years I've lived here however I really think here that I should not be paying to replace windows that I have already paid to have done, with consent from the management plus they even state that they don't cover it. And they read my Leasehold in order to get the consent.Here are the bits I think you requested. I will have to do a separate post for each as it doesn't seem to like it when I add them together.The building:
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Common parts:
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Third schedule:
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Thank you
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Oh and I'll just add, in 8 years I've never had my windows cleaned!0
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The windows are defined within the term of the building, only the glass is excluded.
The shot from the website is a generic page from the council website or explicit to your building?0 -
There seems to be a distinction between 'the windows' and the 'glass within the windows'.
Having said that, S3 (ii) defines what the council is responsible for and specifically excludes 'the windows', whereas S2 (iii) makes the tenant responsible only for the glass.
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There's no definition about the windows.The shot is from Metropolitan's website - it lists what "the homeowner" in a flat is responsible for - and here it states window glass, locks, catches and frames.I will also note which probably complicates the situation is that out of the 12 flats, 4 are "owned" and 8 are "tenants" of Metropolitan. So according to their own website it would be those 8 that would have the work done (I and the other 3 owners would pay for the communal windows).
Further to this, when I moved in they replaced the tenant doors with new ones but the owned flats did not get new doors. Plus I noticed that the owned flats had much older windows than the tenant flats so they'd obviously been replaced at some point.0 -
You need to source your quotes from your personal lease, not from a generic website.0
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