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Most 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 [...]
TTAS contributor ‘Archangel’ brought to our attention that the Downing St Petition Deadline has been extended until the 3 June 2010, following the announcment of the forthcoming General Election on the 6 May 2010. Due to the General Election – the ePetition has had to be closed to new submissions and signatures until after 6 [...]
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 [...]
Firstly, we’d like to say a big thank you to all the ‘newbies’ that have e-mailed us in the last few days with their stories and were pleased to know that the TheTruthAboutSolitaire, is ‘helping’ you to deal with Solitaire Property Management / Peverel. A very big thank you to ‘Jon Dyson’, who has been [...]
TheTruthAboutSolitaire is not only related to bringing to the attention of others, Solitaire Property Management’s failings, but also highlighting how other ‘Peverel Group’ companies operate. We’ve been forwarded a letter and accounts that by a ‘Peverel Retirement’ homeowever, which Peverel have sent to try and allay the fears of retirement homeowners and disway any residents that maybe [...]
The BBC has broadcast another piece focused on Peverel and CARLEX (Campaign for Retirement Leasehold EXploitation). The BBC Politics Show aired today (13 December 2009), covered the recent CARLEX regional meeting in Yeovil, in addition to an interview with a resident from Weston-super-Mare, who’s development has saved almost £20,000 by removing Peverel via Right to Manage. [...]
CARLEX have posted a note on their website to advise that on Sunday at 12.30pm, the BBC Politics Show will be running further coverage of the CARLEX campaign and the reasons why Right to Manage is the way forward. CARLEX held it’s regional meeting in Yeovil on the 10th December and the BBC, plus many radio stations [...]
As reported on Tuesday, Peverel are currently running a ‘Satisfaction Survey’ that is being undertaken by an independent market research company called ‘The Research Factor’ Our understanding is, only a ‘selected’ number of residents appear to have received these questionnaires…. possibly to ensure that their ‘research’ reports a positive response to make Peverel / Solitaire or [...]
Those of you that are readers of The Times Newspaper, may have read within the ‘Money Section’, yet another report on how Peverel / Consensus Business Group appear to be ripping off their retirement homeowners. However, as leaseholders of CBG / Peverel properties - we drew many comparisons of the cases highlighted, with our own. Retirement home [...]
Following the recent media coverage of Consensus Business Group / Peverel, an apology was issued on the 19 November and is documented below:- You may have seen a report on BBC Breakfast News this morning about service charge costs in retirement properties that we look after. The report was in some parts accurate but in other regards [...]
