A contributor to TheTruthAboutSolitaire, has kindly produced a flyer that they have distributed to neighbours to publicise the failings of Solitaire Property Management / Peverel Property Management.

Therefore, if you would like to help promote TheTruthAboutSolitaire and to gain further support from neighbours, for the Regulation of the Property Management / Service Industry – feel free to download the flyer from the link below.

Download TheTruthAboutSolitaire Flyer

Our Call For Regulation

Any avid visitors to TheTruthAboutSolitaire will be aware of the CARLEX website, who are currently promoting the Exploitation of Retirement Leasehold.

With their campaign in mind, we thought it would be of interest to promote their message of why we are also calling for a Regulation of the Property Management / Service Industry.

Source: Donald on the AgeConcern Forums

CARLEX would like to see the Leasehold Retirement Property sector regulated.

In particular they would like to see it made illegal for one company to “own” the Freehold, Management Agents, Insurance Company, Emergency Call service, etc. and use this power to overcharge leaseholders for services. Equally important is to stop the current practice of insisting that a flat is provided for a House Manager who is no longer required to be present outside office hours, and then using this to demand a grossly inflated rental for the flat as part of the Service Charge. We have been in dispute with Fairhold Homes(No2) on this last point since 2006.”

TheTruthAboutSolitaire, feels that the above message, although focused on Retirement Properties, also applies to all Leasehold Residents that have a property who’s Freehold, Management Company, Insurance Broker and Emergency Call Out service – is owned by the same company e.g. The Consensus Business Group.

It should be illegal for this type of ’monoply’ to be allowed, because at present it enables the ‘guise’ (Solitaire, Peverel, Fairhold, County Estate Management, Consort Property Management, Estates & Management) of the holding company (The Consensus Business Group) to overcharge and rip residents off. 

Whatever opinion the contributor from ‘the guise’ have to say, the above quite clearly spells it out that, at present there is a monoply that cannot be denied. 

Therefore, how can ‘the guise’, actually work with the residents funds / interest in mind, when spending the developments service charge funds on management of the properties, when they will always look to feather their own pockets.

Are Our views of Solitaire Fair?

Many visitors to TheTruthAboutSolitaire, may possibly feel that the site is focused on the negatives of Solitaire / Peverel.

That may appear to be the case, but when was the last time anyone went online to setup a website to sing the praises of a company?  Hardly never! 

People will always only ever research a company if they have had a bad experience or if they may possibly be dealing with that company in future.

We would like to remind those that may doubt, whether TheTruthAboutSolitaire is constructive, that it is only down to websites such as ourselves, that brought the ‘inter-company relationships’ into the public domain and have managed to actually promote residents issues and endeavour to get them sorted – when the resident themselves had hit a deadend with the property management company in question.

This type of information would not have been shared and we would all have just continued to pay our dues, because we didn’t know any better.

Finally, if the experiences of contributors were false, why is it that Peverel have an active role in contributing to the website and take a great interest in the website (apart from the fact that they are clearly trying to protect the corporate image of the company / group)?

With the above in mind, if you agree with our comments, calling for ’Regulation’ and ‘Why’ we are calling for it, please sign the No.10 Downing Street Petition