Might make councils think again about some of the ridiculously tightly packed estates being approved planning round here if they had to take on maintaining the infrastructure.
It's a good idea in theory, but it only takes one or two neighbours to decide they aren't paying before problems start.
The idea being the ManCo would have the same weight as an external one - in the basic sense that there would be the same legal requirement to pay any monies owed. I've been a director of two self-policing resi management companies and they've worked just fine. Yes, you have the hassle of sorting stuff out yourselves, but you all have collective responsibility, share the work, and cut out the middleman. Equally I can see the downsides if a few players don't pull their weight and you end up in an endless cycle of litigation.
Did you have to go after people for non-payment of the management fee? One of the benefits of the management company for my estate is they have their own legal department to go after the couple of selfish ******* who try not to pay each year (and believe me, they can afford it, they're just a waste of oxygen).
Only once in my time but they ended up paying before it went to court. ManCo used solicitors when required, just as an external one would.
Well…not so much the Council’s way as the Government’s way of not having to increase funding to Councils.
this is pretty much where I was 5 years ago before buying the property. I’ll try and and add in screenshot from google earth later, the frustrating thing in our case is that the green space on the estate constitutes a small token strip of grass at the very entrance, it doesn’t go any further, to cut it with a ride on mower is about 15-20 minutes and it’s done. It’s definitely set up purposefully to milk a bit more money.
