Complaint from another leaseholder

[Participant]

Reason number 387 why blocks of flats and any kind of communal living is normally rubbish.

 

[Relentless81]

Yep, been there and never again. Communal living and management companies are completely unnecessary stress

 

[Martynt74]

Its not just the management company its quite possible the council requested it as well.

Honestly i cant see too much drama happening on a balcony, but the shared spaces seems daft to think its ok to hang washing there.

Yeah i see this. no one wants to go and sit outside in a communal garden and have someones undies flapping in the wind next to them!

 

[Distracted]

Yeah i see this. no one wants to go and sit outside in a communal garden and have someones undies flapping in the wind next to them!

Depends on the undies and whether they have just been removed or not surely? For example, if Scarlett Johansson were standing beside me, undies flapping in the wind because she had just taken them off, I can't say I would object.

 

[fez]

Nanny state gone mad. I'd continue drying my clothes outside. It's better for a number of reasons including the environment as I bet they are expecting everyone to have tumble dryers.

Hate leasehold/property management companies. They are up there with estate agents and letting agents, bottom feeding scum.

Paying some company a yearly fee no doubt so they can tell you what you can and can't do. Absurd.

You pay them a yearly fee to manage the flats and provide an impartial third party for any disputes and issues. They handle maintenance, paying things like communal electricity and water, taking care of communal areas etc. I agree that they are usually scummy and **** at their job but the work needs to be done. Like with all things, there are good and bad examples. The company that managed our flats was utterly awful and then they were bought out by another company and since then they were brilliant. Same with estate agent. we used purple bricks and they were **** but our sellers estate agent was really good.

 

[SeatIbiza]

It's called a restrictive covenant...it's there to stop your flat(s) and grounds looking like some council estate, ***** hell hole*. That being said, it's unusual for them to enforce it (but in this case someone with nothing better in their lives has complained) so they are doing their job and whomever it is that is doing it is in breach of the covenants in their lease. That being said, to enforce said covenants would mean court and I cannot see anyone in their right mind going to court as the judge would likely throw it out and award costs against the claimaint for being a tool. Saying that, most managing agents are complete jobsworths far, far out of their depth i.e. they're idiots!

*which it may well be!

 

[Psycho Sonny]

We had restrictions regarding commercial vehicles in our estate. As in you can't park vans with advertising on them overnight in visitor spaces. i complained to the people who built the estate and they said they are no longer responsible for it and to contact the council.

so i contacted them and they did nothing. it's one neighbour with around 10 vehicles in his household 4-6 of them being commercial vans. so he takes up all the spaces. it's madness clothes drying is being attacked like this yet someone who is actively disrupting all houses around them isn't.

 

[theukmoog]

I used to live in a block of flats that had a dedicated drying area but you weren't allowed to use it on Sunday!
And it was enforced!

 

[LeeUK]

We had restrictions regarding commercial vehicles in our estate. As in you can't park vans with advertising on them overnight in visitor spaces. i complained to the people who built the estate and they said they are no longer responsible for it and to contact the council.

so i contacted them and they did nothing. it's one neighbour with around 10 vehicles in his household 4-6 of them being commercial vans. so he takes up all the spaces. it's madness clothes drying is being attacked like this yet someone who is actively disrupting all houses around them isn't.

I hate seeing commercial vehicles at home too. It's a great cop out for companies to wash their hands of being responsible for having somewhere to park and store their vehicles at night/weekend... We'll just send them home with the employees who techinally don't have anywhere to store them either. So they end up parked on pavements on the corner of cul-de-sacs blocking the view of the road etc.

 

[KillBoY_UK]

So today all the people in the block of flats we live in got an email from the property management company.

Someone has complained that someone was drying clothes out in the sun on the communal garden area. Unbelievable!!

"Following a complaint from a leaseholder at ***** Court I would just like to remind everybody of the following clause contained within your lease…..

‘not to hang out or expose for airing or drying or for any other purpose any clothes or washing outside the demised flat’

I can't believe there is a clause stopping someone from airing clothes outside. Our previous block of flats provided us with clothes driers and actively promoted airing clothes outside to prevent mould and damp issues brought on from drying indoors.

We use our balcony to dry with a clothes drier as we get the sun from 8am to 3pm.

Is there anything we can say or do to change this in the lease

I've got better, I have a elder neighbour (one who I've saved after she fell near the bins and was screaming for help) who complains that I dry my clothes on a clothes horse in my living room and apparently its a eye sore as my living room is above the main entrance of the block.

I think she lose her "poo" if I dried them outside lol

 

[fez]

Ahh the joys of living in flats. When we moved into the flat about 4 years ago there was loads of space and parking was never an issue. There was a company across the road that clearly told their employees to park in our spaces if their car park was full but it was never that bad. By the time we left there were hardly any spaces, a number of vans seemed to live there taking up more than a space each and then we had some ***** who had spent loads of money on new Mercedes who purposely took up two spaces to protect their babies from damage in the narrow spaces. Hopefully some has accidentally hit their car by now. So many of these places were built before cars were as popular as they are now and people are also selfish ***** who only consider themselves.

 

[touch]

Nanny state gone mad.

It's nothing to do with the state?