Predatory sales tactics / s20 lies

F37A

eddddy said:

F37A said:

user1977 said:

Jonboy_1984 said:

I don’t know about the block you are looking at, but a detailed roof survey in our old block would have needed access to 4 different flats(three of which were BTL) and two additional access points over stairways.

A drone seems to be the easy way of doing it these days (or at least looking at the surface - obviously still trickier if you want to look in any loft spaces).

They outright rejected my attempt to do drone survey.

Did they say why?

They're pathetic excuse was oh the management pack will provide answers. God its so difficult to pull out of this nothing but pain. At least i have some experience of leasehold now.

eddddy

F37A said:

They're pathetic excuse was oh the management pack will provide answers. God its so difficult to pull out of this nothing but pain. At least i have some experience of leasehold now.

I think you've misunderstood.  This is nothing to do with leasehold.

• From what you've said, it sounds like a bunch of (dodgy?) joint freeholders have refused to let you survey their roof - perhaps because they are trying to hide something.

• If you were buying a freehold house, you'd be equally likely to find a dodgy freeholder who would refuse to let you survey the roof.

• If it was a "conventional leasehold/freehold" with a 3rd party freeholder , the freeholder would have no reason to stop you surveying the roof. It's no skin off their nose.

That's the big potential risk with "shared freehold" - you might end up jointly owning a building with a bunch of dodgy people, with strange ideas.

I know of BTL landlords who won't touch "shared freeholds" for this reason.