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I posted this on the "in my house" board, but looks like it is best on here:
We have just recieved 10 brand new chairs for a communal lounge in our 44 block complex.
We have been told that these chairs have cost £3000 and we are going to be billed for them!! We had no consultation to whether we wanted them or not, but apparently the caretaker approached the property management company and said "the majority of residents have asked for new chairs in the lounge". This "majority" is 4 people who use the lounge for an hour each day to have a coffee and a gossip.
My question is, before I launch a verbal SCUD at the peoperty management company, who is responsible for this purchase. They have appologised for not consulting us, but an appology is not going to pay the £3000.
We have just recieved 10 brand new chairs for a communal lounge in our 44 block complex.
We have been told that these chairs have cost £3000 and we are going to be billed for them!! We had no consultation to whether we wanted them or not, but apparently the caretaker approached the property management company and said "the majority of residents have asked for new chairs in the lounge". This "majority" is 4 people who use the lounge for an hour each day to have a coffee and a gossip.
My question is, before I launch a verbal SCUD at the peoperty management company, who is responsible for this purchase. They have appologised for not consulting us, but an appology is not going to pay the £3000.
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They can spend up to £3k without consulting you I believe, check your lease.0
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£3000 for ten chairs? What are the chairs made of?!!Gone ... or have I?0
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dmg24 wrote:£3000 for ten chairs? What are the chairs made of?!!
exactly - and who sourced them at such a price, if 4 people use them for 1 hour each weekday, they are very expensive chairs and possibly even just decent second hand ones would have done.
I understand one of the main issues was that the original chairs were not fire retardent, but I also understand that if the original chairs were purchased before 1983, they don't have to be fire retardent to comply with regulations, just new ones have to be. There was nothing wrong with the old ones TBH, not for the amopunt of use that was gotten out of them.0
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