CARLEX Update
By admin | June 20th, 2010 | Category: Past Articles | 2 commentsMost of the regular visitors to TTAS will be aware of CARLEX which is short for the Campaign Against Retirement Leasehold EXploitation and may have noticed that their website has been offline of late.
We contacted CARLEX to bring this to their attention and they told us that their website is currently undergoing reconstruction.
Although the CARLEX campaign is targetted at injustices for retired leaseholders, many of the issues are exactly the same as those being challenged by TTAS, and the companies are all in the same Group – Consensus Business Group.
We are therefore are more than happy to help spread the word, and as information becomes available from CARLEX, they have given us permission to publish it on TTAS.
In doing so, we hope to fill the void that is currently in place, due to the CARLEX website being revamped and are happy to receive any messages from CARLEX supporters / receive enquiries on their behalf, which we will forward onto them on your behalf.
Therefore, if you do have correspondence to send to CARLEX, please email the usual address (which can be found on the ‘contact us‘ page) with the subject of CARLEX.
I wish to thank TTAS for the helpful information I have received by reading this web site, especially the latest entry by Landmark Leasehold Legal Services.I have not missed a day that I have not read TTAS since the link appeared on the CARLEX web site. I hope CARLEX and TTAS will continue to highlight the many injustices that owners of leasehold flats have had to endure from some management companies.
We have just had a letter from Peverel telling us that our ground rent has increased by more than 100%. We are fully aware of our obligations under the terms of our lease but isn’t this just a bit greedy? With the financial situation as it is, was it necessary to demand (yes, that’s the word they use), a cheque for £174.48 on top of the £125 we have just paid, plus our half-yearly maintenance fee. Those of us existing on state pensions are having a tough time as it is. And what do we get for our money? To whom does it go? We should be given far more information about this money-grabbing scheme. Once again, we have no recourse. Also, is it legal to increase this by more than 100%?