Following Friday’s LVT decision at City Heights, it has sparked an interest in media coverage and our source from City Heights has just informed us of the following:- The BBC came to City Heights yesterday afternoon and did some filming. Our judgement is today all over local news and radio. Peverel yesterday banned the BBC from filming on any land at City Heights owned by the Freeholder! So to get round that Residents were filmed walking around the communal areas! As we have 999 year [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Following our post on Wednesday offering Solicitors and Property Management companies who specialise in Right to Manage / removal of Peverel - the opportunity to advertise on TheTruthAboutSolitaire, we are pleased that already a number of companies have contacted us. We’d like to assure all visitors, that as part of the requirements of advertising on TheTruthAboutSolitaire, they must be able to demonstrate to us, that they have had successes in removing property management companies, who are associated with / part of Peverel Group or Consensus Business Group. TheTruthAboutSolitaire take great [...]

Thanks to ‘Annoyed Landlord’ for contacting TheTruthAboutSolitaire to bring yet another Peverel Group company to our attention. This time, it’s a company called ‘Marlborough House Management‘ – which is ironic, when Solitaire Property Management’s address is ‘Marlborough House, Wigmore Place, Luton…. nothing like coming up with a unique name eh! ‘Annoyed Landlords’ message to us was:- The accompanying letter gave 5 reasons for their poor performance (sending the invoice late). It would be amusing if it didn’t feel like they were clutching at straws to [...]

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 contributing some excellent information in regards to Right to Manage and the correct procedures / processes to follow when instigating RTM.  We take a lot of pride in seeing this [...]

Nicky Vogg has been a frequent contributor to TheTruthAboutSolitaire and in December 2009, at her request, we published the posting ‘The Story of Nicky Vogg‘. Despite this posting, not much has changed for Nicky and she’s asked us to publish Part II of her plight, which we have listed below:- Nicky Vogg’s plan was to move abroad in 2007 after selling her rented flat. After 3 years, she is still fighting to clear her flat as not the source of flooding the lift shaft, demanding [...]

TheTruthAboutSolitaire does help residents with getting their complaints heard from Solitaire / Peverel. In the last few weeks, we have been informed by a few contributors that having had their cases highlighted by TheTruthAboutSolitaire, they were suddenly contacted by Solitaire and some are finally getting their problems addressed. One contributor sent us the following:- Thank you for the wonderful job that you are doing. The measure of your success is that I have had a letter from my property manager (who?????) offering to meet me  [...]

On the 18 October 2008, we highlighted the plight of TruthAboutSolitaire contributor ‘A N Onymous’, with the posting titled ‘One Year of PeverHell‘ ‘A N Onymous’ provided photograph’s with a time and date stamp on them, as evidence that Solitaire / Peverel were not maintaining their estate.  ‘Andy’, Solitaire’s Online Feedback manager, responded to ‘A N Onymous’ story by quoting that they would contact, the contractor to remove the damage hinges, etc.  and here’s an extract of ‘Andys’ original comment:- The bin store shown in one of [...]

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. If you missed the broadcast, we’ve uploaded it to TheTruthAboutSolitaire YouTube channel for you to watch.  (We recommend that you turn the volume up on your PC, as the sound [...]