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Hi all,

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to handle this problem which has landed on me?

Four flats in a block and each has a different owner who in turn owns 25% of the freehold. We have our own management company. All the flats are tenanted. Serious roofworks need doing and 3 out of the 4 owners are happy to go ahead after estimates were sought.

The 4th flat (ground floor) is owned by a commercial landlord whose elderly tenant pays a very small rent having lived there since the 1960’s and has no AST. Commercial landlord never attends the annual management meeting.

This 4th landlord keeps trying to stop the work going ahead by asking for more estimates then taking months to reply. By this time the estimates are out of date or most recently the cheapest preferred roofer has moved on and Commercial Landlord asks for more estimates again rather than use the remaining estimates. The roof is leaking, the building is suffering and the tenants are not best pleased in the top flats.

Commercial Landlord has threatened me with having to get a ‘Section 90′ when I remonstrated with her- not sure what that is and should I be scared? Also is there anything I can do to insist on the works going ahead with or without her consent?

Only since this particular manager for the commercial landlord has taken over have we had soooo much trouble.

Mortitia

Talk soon,
Joe Beaven

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