We hope that all of the recent technical difficulties experienced in the last few weeks are sorted and do apologise for the lack of Solitaire / Peverel related posts.  We trust you can all appreciate that our efforts have been focused on ensuring that TheTruthAboutSolitaire website was stable, before we re-commenced posting stories. Despite our technical problems, it has been great to see the contributions of TTAS visitors on the web site – some of which has been incredibly enlightening. Take for instance the comment added by ‘Neil’ yesterday, [...]

Residents from City Heights (victorious in one of the biggest LVT cases in the UK) have provided us with an update on how things are going following the LVT decision. Separate from the LVT decision the team running the City Heights LVT have been trying to trace and identify missing reserve funds for the six apartment blocks at City Heights ready for a handover to a new property management company on 01/04/2010 now they have sacked Solitaire. On Thursday 11 March 2010 Solitaire sent a further statement [...]

The whole Property Management concept is a money making industry, but there are still many questions about how PMC’s have appeared to become the ‘norm’ in many new developments. Fortunately, one of TheTruthAboutSolitaire admins was in discussion with ARMA and asked the question of ‘why it appears that all new developments are managed by PMCs?’ ARMA explained that when developers started building estates that had a mixture of houses and flat’s, there was a responsibility to look after the shared area’s e.g. private roads, common areas.  Originally, this responsibility was the developers.  However, [...]

TheTruthAboutSolitaire contributor ‘Geoff’ has brought to our attention the following report, from ‘thisisnottingham.co.uk’ – that raises yet another story of Solitaire story of owe. Residents to take flat management company to a tribunal Friday, March 05, 2010, 07:00 8 readers have commented on this story. Click here to read their views. RESIDENTS of a Lace Market development are taking their freeholder to a tribunal, claiming the books have been left unbalanced following “historic mismanagement”. Last month, 126 families from a block of flats in Mapperley [...]

We’d like to thank everyone for their patience, whilst we experienced some rather serious technical difficulties, that we believe were targetted at trying to take TheTruthAboutSolitaire offline.  The evidence that we have sourced has been passed on to the relevant authorities for investigation. Therefore, the good news is – WE’RE BACK and have quite a lot to comment on. CARL Newsletter We’ve been provided with a copy of CARL’s new Spring 2010 Leaseholder Issue 29 newsletter that highlights how the political world, seem unwilling to help owners [...]

We’ve been provided with the following information by residents of City Heights in Nottingham, on how they went about winning the battle of Insurance Commissions / Kickbacks in their LVT Case. We trust that those of you considering LVT action, will take note of this essential information in your LVT battle with Peverel / Solitaire. Cue the alarm bells ringing in Peverel Towers…. You must get from Oval Insurance Brokers the full policy document, summary of facts, certificates and claim history for your block. Also [...]

Andy from Solitaire kindly contributed to the site for the first time in a long while, with his comments on inaccuracies in the post relating to the City Heights LVT To view his comments click here TheTruthAboutSolitaire only report the facts that the residents in question advise us of and your response, sounds very much like the one which Peverel issued to CARLEX, when CARLEX reported that Peverel were taking down posters promoting RTM and CARLEX meetings – which was something along the lines of “we have not informed [...]

Following on from yesterday’s post in regards to the ‘Major Victory in Largest LVT Case Brought in Britain‘. We have read many contributors comments advising that their estate / development insurance policy is with Zurich, which has been organised via Oval Insurance Ltd, on behalf of Peverel / Solitaire. In the past we have also obtained competitive quotes and been able to reduce the ‘Peverel / Solitaire’ policy, only for them to ignore our requests and be advised that the policy in place warrants the fees! Despite the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]