My elderly father lives in a block of apartments. He is the only owner ocupier living in the entire block of about 16 apartments. The remaining apartments are owned by the developer/builder and rented out. He is there more then 8 years.
There was originally managemnt fees, I think for the first year only. After that no bills came so my father did nothing.
The place hasn't been painted outside since it was built and overall it looks shabby. As he is paying no fees he can't ask to have it done up.
As my father is comfortable and feels secure there we don't want to move him.
We tried to get insurance recently for the apartment but were told we couldn't as the management company would have the whole block insured.
Is this the norm, is there any way we could insure the apartment building ourselves?
Also is there anything else he should be worried about given the above situation?
Thanks
There was originally managemnt fees, I think for the first year only. After that no bills came so my father did nothing.
The place hasn't been painted outside since it was built and overall it looks shabby. As he is paying no fees he can't ask to have it done up.
As my father is comfortable and feels secure there we don't want to move him.
We tried to get insurance recently for the apartment but were told we couldn't as the management company would have the whole block insured.
Is this the norm, is there any way we could insure the apartment building ourselves?
Also is there anything else he should be worried about given the above situation?
Thanks