Tentants as directors

olisun

Grumpy_chap said:

olisun said:

I just received the accounts for 2023/2024 and they have paid over £18K for the gardenders. The gardenders had to do less work during that period because of the ongoing construction work for the last 12 months or so.

I was expecting the charges to either remain the same or go down.

That figure for the cost of gardening is not something that anyone can comment on unless the quantum of gardening undertaken is determined.

I am not sure I understand this but to give you some context, the gardeners have been here for the last 7-8 years (probably more) doing roughly the same work each year.

I worked from home 100% last year so I know what they were upto each week.

There is ongoing construction on all the blocks since more than 12 months, which has caused disruption to the gardeners and they have been doing less than 40% of the work (not their fault).

Without a contract in place, I was expecting the cost to be roughly the same last year and not increase it over 10% for doing roughly 40% less work.

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olisun said:

Grumpy_chap said:

olisun said:

I just received the accounts for 2023/2024 and they have paid over £18K for the gardenders. The gardenders had to do less work during that period because of the ongoing construction work for the last 12 months or so.

I was expecting the charges to either remain the same or go down.

That figure for the cost of gardening is not something that anyone can comment on unless the quantum of gardening undertaken is determined.

I am not sure I understand this but to give you some context, the gardeners have been here for the last 7-8 years (probably more) doing roughly the same work each year.

I worked from home 100% last year so I know what they were upto each week.

There is ongoing construction on all the blocks since more than 12 months, which has caused disruption to the gardeners and they have been doing less than 40% of the work (not their fault).

Without a contract in place, I was expecting the cost to be roughly the same last year and not increase it over 10% for doing roughly 40% less work.

I'd expect the cost to be fixed in advance, and to include some indexation to allow for inflation. 10% increase is about right.

If there was building work which got in the way of the gardening, maybe a reduction in the cost could have been organised in advance, but apparently nobody thought of that. Or, maybe the gardeners worked extra hard on the remaining parts of the garden. 

You have yet to adduce any evidence at all that the gardening cost is excessive. 

I do wonder whether you are worrying too much about this, as it's hard to find a reliable firm of gardeners (which these people appear to be), and cost is not the only consideration.