We Need Your Stories of Woe
By admin | August 26th, 2010 | Category: Past Articles | 4 commentsTheTruthAboutSolitaire (TTAS) and the Campaign Against Retirement Leasehold EXploitation action group (CARLEX) have been contacted by a journalist who is looking for stories of woe – from Peverel / Consensus Business Group PMC customers.
They would really like to speak to others about the treatment they’ve received from the likes of Peverel and others, with the ultimate goal of producing more case studies to promote to the media. At present, they are acutely aware that so far the only examples they’ve got published are based in London – hence they’re keen to speak to people from outside of the south-east of the country.
Obviously TTAS is full of stories of ‘woe’ – but defining and identifying where these problems are is difficult and that is why we have setup a dedicated e-mail address, where you can send your story to with any contact details you wish to include, for the journalist to contact you direct.
The e-mail address is:
Although the e-mail address is via TTAS, the message will also be copied directly to the journalist in question, as well as ourselves and is why we have asked for contact details to be included on the message, so that they can contact you.
It would appear that finally, there is a publicist out there that is trying to fight our corner and we say – good on you!
For anyone that may have any doubt as to the legitamacy of the ‘journalist’, they were instrumental in getting the Telegraph to report on Mr & Mrs Houston, in addition to this report in the Metro newspaper, plus they have attracted TV companies to be interested in the PPMG story.
We look forward to hearing from you all and do remember to keep us updated on developments at your site!
Have just moved into a property managed by Solitaire and they will not release any information. We have paid £250 to have our names put on the lease. Our vendor had to pay £500 just to get Solitaire to communicate information to our solicitors.
Our solicitor was very alarmed at the behaviour of this company and warned us that we may be in for problems. However, we liked the property so much.
Has anybody tried to involve BBC Watchdog?
Marian Armstrong,
Heavens above – it must be some property!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There was a comment made recently by a contributor whose name I cannot recall, who “chastised” us all for not reading the leases before purchasing and there have also been suggestions that conveyancing solicitors may not have been doing a thorough job in advising their clients.
I was tempted to reply to both comments, but, quite frankly, I could not raise the energy to state that as far as I know there are no conveyancing solicitors “out there” who are qualified in both the law and “clairvoyance” (ie you will get a management company who employ site managers who behave extremely rudely to the leaseholders, can’t reply to letters of complaint etc…….but you had a solicitor who was “alarmed at the behaviour of this company and warned you that we may have problems.” BUT YOU BOUGHT THE PROPERTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Marian
I wish you luck……and oh how I wish you would have LISTENED to your Solicitor.
Let us all know please what you think of your first invoice.
Dear Marian,
Can I ask why you paid £250 to have your names put on the Lease? If your conveyancing solicitor’s done his/her job properly your names should be on the Title / Deeds (as held by Land Registry) as proof of ownership in your name(s). Having your names on the lease contract itself, as far as I’m aware (and someone PLEASE correct me if I’m wrong!) means diddly-squat! Property can change hands many times but the ORIGINAL lease; with the original buyers name(s) on it stays the same throughout the life of the lease for that property (…that way also all later buyers can get to see the original purchase price paid and what ‘mugs’ they’ve been! Doh!)
And (again please correct me if I’m wrong!) changes to any property lease can only be done by a higher power, like an LVT or the like – could you imagine the kind of nonsense we’d be in if Solitaire…ooops! Sorry I meant the Freeholder, so that’ll be E&M then (…but hey! Aren’t they part of the same Group of companies?!)
could arbitrarily change the terms of your lease (even just the names!?) when they felt like it!
For your £250 what did you get exactly? Was it just a letter on their headed paper to say that your names are now on the lease? Or did you actually get the entire original stamped legal lease document clearly showing your names (as updated) on it? If I was putting money on I’d go for the former so I would be very interested to know! Thanks. (…oh! Welcome to the ‘Club’! And prepare to be infuriated beyond your wildest dreams.)