Friday Feeling…
It’s September, it’s been a four day week, following the Bank Holiday – but thank goodness it’s Friday!
Last week was quite frankly ‘manic’ and all of the updates that we had to post, certainly kept us busy and the reaction that we have had from many of you has been astounding, so thank you to everyone that has sent us information we requested.
This week we have seen lots of activity on TTAS in regards to the revelation of who / what the ‘IRPM’ (Institute of Residential Property Management) is and yesterday’s post by ‘Nirmal’ – which listed the names of each of the PPMG Employees, who hold a qualification with them, was very much of interest.
If you haven’t seen the list – click here to see Nirmal’s post.
There are many names that are familiar and it’s also good to see that management within PPMG also hold these qualifications.
However, it’s a shame that despite these qualifications – that as Charles Roberts also commented- are there to “help provide better knowledge and experience” – none of the PPMG / CBG Property Managers (PM’s) seem to bother to use the information that they have learned.
Maybe so many PPMG employees hold the qualification, because it covers things such as ”how to avoid contact with serial complainers”, “how to source contractors, that give the PM’s benefits” – things that PPMG excel at. (we jest)
Clearly, there is a lot of sceptism about this qualification, with some contributors mentioning that this organisation was setup by ARMA – which if true, demonstrates that they at least ‘tried’ to regulate the industry at least.
It’s a shame that because these organisations are setup by members of PMC’s – that they all preach the gospel, but actually never put the words into action. Therefore, when things go wrong, there isn’t anyone there to punish the company in question.
In fact, the way some PMC’s are running, in our eyes is very similar to the banks and some higher profile football clubs. They can do what they want, beit – getting into massive debts, to try and achieve glory / profits and when it all goes wrong and they end up owing money to HMRC (football clubs) or needing loans from the Government (the banks).
That they get away with it and the only losers are us – the general public, because when we’ve bailed them out, their back to their old tactics again, but with a little more caution shall we say.
What needs to happen is for the Government to clamp down on this type of trading, discipline / fine / punish the traders of the larger companies – even if it puts them on the brink of going out of business or in fact, as most of us would like – put them out of business, so that the small – caring and trustworthy PMC’s can step in and reap the real benefits.
If all the PMC’s provided a good service, your homes were looking neat / tidy – we’d all happily pay reasonable service charges….
When will PPMG realise that to stop the complaints, residents money needs to be spent on maintaining the development in question and not lining the pockets of the group, to make the portfolio look attractive to backers of Mr Tchenquiz, so that he can buy up more property / land and charge more of us extionate rates, so that the whole process starts again.
[ADMIN EDIT - 10.41]
We’ve just received message from ‘Andy’ – who surprisingly e-mailed us from his corporate e-mail account which was related to Marlborough House Management (m-h-m.co.uk) and confirmed his identity to us (don’t worry Andy – we wont publish it).
He asked for the post by Nirmal to be amended and not list the names of Peverel Group employees who hold the IRPM qualifications, because it was not appropriate to the ‘context of the thread’
We’ve replied to Andy to say that this information is already in the public domain via the IRPM website and that if the PPMG employees didn’t want their names listed on the IRPM website for others to find, they should have requested them to be removed / not published.
In addition to the fact that PPMG should be proud for us to publish this information, because at least it demonstrates that PPMG employ qualified PMs and not just any random person who applied for the job off the street!
Therefore, until IRPM remove reference to these employees – Nirmal’s post will remain unedited. However, in the event that we do have to remove the names, we’ll publish a link for everyone to visit and look up the employees for yourselves.
We haven’t posted this message to provoke a reaction from PPMG, but we feel that TTAS visitors should know that PPMG are trying to moderate information that is published on TTAS and unless it is deemed as litigation or is libellous, we try not to edit visitors posts.
We do not see how posting this information, is any different to posting information that is available on websites such as Companies House about PPMG companies.



