Hi there,
I hope some of you can offer some advice. Myself and other residents are at our wits end. We live in an apartment complex of which there are four blocks. We are on our third managing agent. We have a major problem with illegal dumping. The bin sheds are an absolute disgrace. It's not unusual to go to the bin shed and find a bed or a bath. We tried to resolve the issue by locking the sheds and having keys allocated to each resident. Bins are now being left outside the shed. This is just one problem we have.
The managing agents are not doing anything. Unfortunately there are residents who are not paying fees. They're not paying because nothing is being done. Anyone with an ounce of cop on would realise that's just going to make the problem worse. I called the MA a few weeks ago after being inside one of the other blocks. They are an absolute disgrace. If I lived in one of those blocks I would be heartbroken. Holes in the walls, doors hanging off hinges, broken letterboxes etc. I asked why legal action had not been taken against owners who had not paid fees. He said it had. I told him I knew that they could get a judgement which would allow them to enter the property and take goods to the value of the money owed. He said they were in the process of doing this. I said I wanted to see all correspondence between MA and solictors.
I've just had a phonecall from another resident to say that the MA are now refusing to remove the rubbish at all. The bins are piled outside the bin shed as we speak. It looks like they are refusing to do any work here at the moment.
I could go on and on here but I hope this gives some sort of idea of what we have to put up with. I heard from one resident that another resident had suggested that if this MA goes the council will take over. Can anyone tell me if this can happen? I would be happy for the council to take over but is it possible. A resident called the council a while ago to ask if they could help and they said they couldn't because it's private property.
What can we do? Is there any point going to a TD? It is beyond me why the government can allow this to happen to people. We've just put our apartment up for sale and I wouldn't let anyone come to view the place the way things are. : (
I hope some of you can offer some advice. Myself and other residents are at our wits end. We live in an apartment complex of which there are four blocks. We are on our third managing agent. We have a major problem with illegal dumping. The bin sheds are an absolute disgrace. It's not unusual to go to the bin shed and find a bed or a bath. We tried to resolve the issue by locking the sheds and having keys allocated to each resident. Bins are now being left outside the shed. This is just one problem we have.
The managing agents are not doing anything. Unfortunately there are residents who are not paying fees. They're not paying because nothing is being done. Anyone with an ounce of cop on would realise that's just going to make the problem worse. I called the MA a few weeks ago after being inside one of the other blocks. They are an absolute disgrace. If I lived in one of those blocks I would be heartbroken. Holes in the walls, doors hanging off hinges, broken letterboxes etc. I asked why legal action had not been taken against owners who had not paid fees. He said it had. I told him I knew that they could get a judgement which would allow them to enter the property and take goods to the value of the money owed. He said they were in the process of doing this. I said I wanted to see all correspondence between MA and solictors.
I've just had a phonecall from another resident to say that the MA are now refusing to remove the rubbish at all. The bins are piled outside the bin shed as we speak. It looks like they are refusing to do any work here at the moment.
I could go on and on here but I hope this gives some sort of idea of what we have to put up with. I heard from one resident that another resident had suggested that if this MA goes the council will take over. Can anyone tell me if this can happen? I would be happy for the council to take over but is it possible. A resident called the council a while ago to ask if they could help and they said they couldn't because it's private property.
What can we do? Is there any point going to a TD? It is beyond me why the government can allow this to happen to people. We've just put our apartment up for sale and I wouldn't let anyone come to view the place the way things are. : (