Increasing awareness of Leaseholders plight is essential in trying to force regulation of the PMC industry and when we were approached by the Daily Mail three weeks ago to tell our side of the story, we were more than happy to help. It’s been a hard secret to keep from visitors but we trust that today’s report in the ‘Money Mail’ section of the Daily Mail goes some way to promoting awareness. If you haven’t read the report, we’ve copied it for those of you that may [...]

Who was it that said that Peverel OM never inflated the cost of their service charges and that this was ‘unique’ to Solitaire Property Management? We won’t answer that one – but three guesses to those that may know! Anyway, we’ve been doing some digging to try and identify developments that are managed by Peverel and we found the website ‘London SE1‘ which has a forum and contributors to have frequently referred to Peverel a number of times. We found this forum post which was originally posted [...]

Thanks to contributors to TTAS, we will shortly be making a ‘How To RTM Guide’ available for anyone that is contemplating going the Right to Manage route. In preparation for this, we would like to hear from anyone that is about to go ‘self managed’ or has recently gone ‘self managed’ having gone the RTM route, to ‘test’ our guide. The primary reason for this request is to ascertain whether the processes that TTAS contributors have taken also applied to your case / could be applied, [...]

We all know that the issues we experience with Peverel Property Management Group are the same throughout which ever ‘guise’ is responsible for your development. However, how common is this type of treatment within the industry as a whole? With this in mind, we are opening up TheTruthAboutSolitaire to not only focus on Peverel Property Management Group, but to focus on all the ‘Rogue Traders’ that operate in the same way that PPMG do. Therefore, we urge anyone who lives in a leasehold property and [...]

Having taken onboard the comments that were posted on Wednesday’s report titled ‘The Non-Committal Developers‘, we thought we’d put together some of the aims of TTAS to try and help residents / potential owners of new properties, in addition to bringing everyone up to speed with other things that have been going on in the background. Creating awareness is an essential part of our campaign and although our plight is experienced by pretty much every owner of an OM Property managed property, it’s amazing that more [...]

Afternoon everyone, we’ve just got back from another tour of the regions and this time we were in the South West, looking at developments in the Gloucester, Cheltenham, Bristol and Weston-Super-Mare area. What has surprised us with many of our visits, is the fact that new developers are very coy with giving details about the management fees and who the management company are. Are the developer’s sales people not revealing the management company on purpose, because they know it could affect potential sales? Okay, there [...]

With the assistance of a property management company that has previously had success in removing a Peverel Property Management Group from a development near to their offices, they have published the following information to help explain ‘Right to Manage’ to prospective visitors, which we are happy to also publish. Right To Manage Explained Introduction When the Government introduced the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 it provided leaseholders with a right to take control of the management of their building. This process is known as [...]

Last week, TheTruthAboutSolitaire started to reveal the way in which the Peverel Property Management Group / Consensus Business Group was structured. These posts attracted a lot of attention and we were asked to see whether we could obtain how ‘Rotch Property Group Ltd’ was also structured, as this was the company that ‘Robert and Vincent Tchenquiz’ had setup in 1980. Therefore, as always – when TTAS contributors ask, you get and here’s the structure of this company for your perusal. Rotch Property Group Ltd Interesting, [...]

Yesterday we published a message from a potential buyer of a property that was managed by OM Property Management, who was asking for advice as to whether they should proceed with purchasing the property, following her Solicitor bringing to her attention that they were aware of OM Property Management. We’d already given our advice to the contributor in private, but we also asked others to comment on what the lady in question should do. Judging by the comments that were left on the ‘What Would [...]

Something must have happened in the last few weeks, because TTAS has started to attract many new contributors to the website, so we’d like to say ‘Welcome’ if you are new to us. For those of you that aren’t familiar with what TheTruthAboutSolitaire is about, we thought we’d introduce ourselves to you all properly, because our initial intentions for TTAS back in 2008 have changed over the last few years so here we go…. In 2008, the website was setup to ascertain whether the service [...]