We’ve been forwarded a letter that was sent to all ARMA members by Peverel in January, pretty much saying ‘go easy on us, we know we’ve got problems and we’re sorting them’. A contributor to TheTruthAboutSolitaire had previously mentioned that this had taken place and until today, we had no evidence to back this claim. It’s interesting to have read the attached and to try and understand, why they felt the need to send this letter to all members, had it not been for the fact [...]

Following on from yesterday’s post in regards to the ‘Major Victory in Largest LVT Case Brought in Britain‘. We have read many contributors comments advising that their estate / development insurance policy is with Zurich, which has been organised via Oval Insurance Ltd, on behalf of Peverel / Solitaire. In the past we have also obtained competitive quotes and been able to reduce the ‘Peverel / Solitaire’ policy, only for them to ignore our requests and be advised that the policy in place warrants the fees! Despite the [...]

We’ve been informed that yesterday (Friday 12 February 2010), the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal published the decision in Britain’s largest ever LVT case brough in Nottingham, at City Heights Estate 126 Families living in 6 apartment blocks in Nottingham had had enough of 6 years of hell and got together 2 years ago to challenge ‘RIP OFF BRITAIN’ and the amounts they were being charged by a property management company who were dreadful. The Freeholder is Peverel and they used their own Peverel Property Management company [...]

The title to this post may seem a bit obscure, but whilst we have been putting our strategy for CALAFEX together, we couldn’t stop thinking about, when, how and why developers started to sell off the free hold and have property management companies responsible for the developments upkeep. In the area that one of the admin’s lives, there are many small ‘niche’ developments, that are marked ‘private road’ and maintained by Peverel OM – which appears to have become the norm. What happened to the day’s [...]

There’s been an increase in the number of people that have gone RTM or in the process of removing Solitaire / Peverel / Consensus Business Group, property management companies. Some have managed to remove them via RTM, others by requesting E&M (where applicable) replace Solitaire with their chosen property management company. With this in mind and to get an idea of the number of developments that TheTruthAboutSolitaire has had a factor in helping remove them, feel free to post below your development / estate, to [...]

On Monday, we asked the question as to whether TheTruthAboutSolitaire, should commence our campaign called ‘CALAFEX’ or ‘Campaign for Leasehold and Freehold Exploitation’. Following many of your comments and messages of support, we are pleased to advise that this will be happening. We’ve put together a temporary web page, explaining what our aim is and how people can contact us to tell their side of the story. Don’t panic, this won’t mean that TheTruthAboutSolitaire will not be updated! In fact, it’ll be the opposite. Many [...]

There’s been lots of lively debates going on recently in regards to Right To Manage and LVT’s, which demonstrates, that finally, residents are starting to fight back against Solitaire / Peverel. This has co-incided with a homeowner, who had managed to replace Solitaire Property Management and appoint their own chosen local PMC for their development, without going RTM or LVT. They’ve told us that despite the ‘handover’ taking place last year, the new PMC are still yet to receive all the correct paperwork from Solitaire (electric bills, [...]

Regular TheTruthAboutSolitaire contributor ‘ArchAngel’ posted the following in reference to our campaign against Solitaire / Peverel. You have done, and are doing, a fantastic job of highlighting everything that is wrong and unjust with this particular property management company. However as many of your regular subscibers and visitors know, Solitaire is but one of severel companies linked to Peverel and ultimately owned by Consenus Business Group. There are many other property management companies not related to CBG that may also require some attention. Have you [...]

We received an e-mail from an employee, who requested that we removed their name from a posting on TheTruthAboutSolitaire. What was interesting to identify, was that the format of the employees e-mail address had changed, from that which had previously been listed on TheTruthAboutSolitaire. Originally, Solitaire’s e-mail addresses were firstname.surname at solitairegroup.co.uk, but now, it appears their addresses are ‘firstnamesurname at solitairegroup.co.uk’. Therefore, if you are trying to contact your property manager, why not try the above structure e-mail address and see if it gets [...]