COUNTY ESTATE MANAGEMENT 3

This is a letter to Mr. D Spiro of Reality Estate Management, the freeholder of the property.

Dear Mr. Spiro

RE: THE ABOVE PROPERTY

I wrote to you on 15/11/06 informing you of my intention to start a blog re this property and enclosing a copy of letter of complaint dated 11/11/06 to Mr. P. Rayden, Managing Director of County Estate Management.
I have not received a reply from you as yet. Perhaps you are saving the contents of my letter for a little light Xmas reading . I now look forward to your response.
The blog has now started.
Mr. Rayden has not replied to my letter nor instigated a proper investigation into the complaints, and as a result of this I have written to him again, including my response to Mr Freilich's letter of 22/11/06, as you can see from the blog.
The blog can be most easily accessed at either Blogger.com or at Google Blog Search by entering 'countyestate'. Full address: http://countyestate.blogspot.com.
You are welcome to enter comments on the blog and may wish to copy any letters to the blog to ensure fair representstion.


I have however received a bill from you on 5/12/06 for 2 amounts:
1. Ground Rent. £150 for a period of 12 months from 25/12/06. I am enclosing a cheque for this amount; however, ground rent has always been previously paid at 6 monthly intervals, for the good reason that this is what the lease apparently demands. If you agree with this interpretation could you in future please send bills for ground rent and insurance at said intervals?

2. Arrears Service Charges Year Ending 25/12 /05 of £334.25. (Background for bloggers-- Reality Estate took over the freehold in December 05, close to the service charge year end of 25/12/05. Up to that point the property had been managed by a firm called Barnes Allen.)
We last discussed this issue several months ago when you said that you had someone sorting through the paperworks sent to you by Barnes Allen to find out how the amounts of arrears the latter told you were owing by leaseholders ( in my own case £334.25) had been worked out, including evidence of outgoings etc.
I have reason to believe that the only outgoings for the period in question was for insurance renewal.
Subsequent to this discussion , I wrote to you on 18/05/06 requesting you send me an itemised list of such outgoings for the year ending 12/12/05. I pointed out that I had made a cheque payment of £800 to Barnes Allen dated 7/4/05, an amount considerably more than stated in the records sent to you from Barnes Allen. I suggested that only a properly worked out service charge account for the period in question would therefore clarify the credit/debit situation. I did not receive a reply to this letter.
As the period of time in which such an account is supposed to be produced once requested has passed I would therefore request this now be forwarded as soon as possible so that this matter can be finally settled.

Yous sincerely


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