10amwalker
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For what it's worth, our management company (for a c. 140 unit townhouse development) annual report always lists the addresses of units in arrears as a matter of course. It does not mention names or addresses of householders who do not live in the estate though. It is up to the management company or the management agent on their behalf to chase up arrears as appropriate including charging interest/costs and, if necessary, sending solicitors' letters or instituting legal proceedings. In most or all cases the management company lease legally binds the householders (resident or otherwise) to pay the management charges. Note also that when it comes to reselling a property the fact that there may be management fee arrears on it could jeopardise the sale until the liabilities (and any interest/costs/penalties) are discharged.10amwalker said:Living in apartment for 1 year, owner occupier but very disillusioned with investors not paying their service charges. How do they expect the cleaning, gardening, lobby lighting, lifts to be paid if they do not pay their service charges. Someone suggested naming and shaming them when it comes to the AGM. Has anyone experience of how to make these people pay ?
Not just apartment developments - a large and growing (as far as I know) number of housing developments are managed privately in a similar way. Note that there are many threads dealing with management companies/agents already which contain some useful info relating to the topics that you mention. Perhaps somebody could volunteer to collate a list of these and maybe the useful information could be consolidated into a single thread, FAQ or list of useful topic links?I am setting up this thread as I feel that people new to apartment living have a lot of questions that could be answered by people who have learnt the hard way.
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