Estate Management Co Rules

[avantarklu]

Recently moved into a new estate, mix of apartments and houses. Everyone is being charged a management fee for the upkeep of the estate, block insurance and bins for the apartments etc. Management Co is to be handed over to the residents in the near future.
Anyway, I bought a house (freehold) with a "lease of easement" (I think that is the term) which gives me the right to use the roadways within the estate, i.e. to access my home from the main road.
Under the terms of this lease, there are a number of stipulations such as no appendages to the outside of the building, no clothes to be hung in sight of common areas, noise, animals etc. Now I understand that these terms also apply to the apartment owners but, importantly, refer to their leasehold interest in the apartment ('not simply a right of way' lease).
We have received a mailing from the management co agents "reminding" us of the terms of the lease and specifically, have informed us that all satelite dishes, tv ariels etc must be taken down by the end of the year or they will do it themselves (I'd like to see them try). While I have my own opinions on the matter, I would appreciate any comment anyone else has on the subject or if anyone has had a similar experience.

 

[ClubMan]

We are in a similar situation in that all householders when buying their properties signed a legally binding lease which committed them to observe certain rules and regulations. For example satellite dishes are not allowed and the management agent (under the auspices of the management company of which all householders are members/shareholders) recently wrote to people reminding them of these rules and also stating that dishes will be removed by the company/agent if necessary and the householder billed for any expenses. The management company/agent are completely within their legal rights to enforce these rules which householders have signed up to. If necessary they could resort to legal means to enforce them with the householder liable for costs if (as would be expected) the householder loses any case. This is just the way things work with management companies/agents and people need to apprise themselves of the obligations that they sign up to when signing a management company lease associated with a property that they purchase. Of course members/shareholders can always lobby and campaign for changes to the rules (and consequently the underlying leases) but that may involve some effort and cost to convince people.

 

[contemporary]

Write back to the management company and tell them that you are unhappy with the upkeep of the estate and asked them to recify the situation before X date, they never do and when they next write to you telling you to take down your dish, politely inform them as they have still not responded to your letter that you will not comply with their requests, this worked a treat for me in the past.