Orion's Belt
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Is there anything I can do about this case of sharp practice:
Last October, I bought my first home, a one-bedroomed apartment. Before doing so, I rang the management agent to check the management fee, and to query whether it would rise. The agent said I should anticipate a 5% increase for 2008, payable quarterly. I expected a bill from the management agents in December. No bill arrived.
Last Friday evening, the management agency hand-delivered emergency notices full of exclamation marks and block capitals to our mailboxes informing us that our power would be cut off this Friday if we did not pay €10,000 to the ESB on the 11th of January. Our fees have been increased by over 50%, payable immediately. There is apparently a large outstanding ESB bill from 2005 that has never been settled.
The developer who built the apartments is also the management company director, along with his accountant. About a third of the apartments pay no management fees, according to the management company’s annual report which sets outs how much each apartment pays. I know that at least one of these apartments belongs to the developer, as I viewed it. I do not know whether he owns the rest of them, or why they are exempt from fees. The unpaid ESB bill dates back to 2005 when the apartments were being built. It strikes me as possible that this was the electricity used to build the apartments, not light the communal areas etc.
There was an AGM in November, which I foolishly did not attend. No minutes were subsequently sent out. If there’s a residents association, I don’t about it.
Anything I can do about this?
Last October, I bought my first home, a one-bedroomed apartment. Before doing so, I rang the management agent to check the management fee, and to query whether it would rise. The agent said I should anticipate a 5% increase for 2008, payable quarterly. I expected a bill from the management agents in December. No bill arrived.
Last Friday evening, the management agency hand-delivered emergency notices full of exclamation marks and block capitals to our mailboxes informing us that our power would be cut off this Friday if we did not pay €10,000 to the ESB on the 11th of January. Our fees have been increased by over 50%, payable immediately. There is apparently a large outstanding ESB bill from 2005 that has never been settled.
The developer who built the apartments is also the management company director, along with his accountant. About a third of the apartments pay no management fees, according to the management company’s annual report which sets outs how much each apartment pays. I know that at least one of these apartments belongs to the developer, as I viewed it. I do not know whether he owns the rest of them, or why they are exempt from fees. The unpaid ESB bill dates back to 2005 when the apartments were being built. It strikes me as possible that this was the electricity used to build the apartments, not light the communal areas etc.
There was an AGM in November, which I foolishly did not attend. No minutes were subsequently sent out. If there’s a residents association, I don’t about it.
Anything I can do about this?