Permit Parking to enforce payment of fees

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GarBow

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Our Management Company has a massive cash deficit due to unpaid fees. We reletively recently appointed a new amanagement agent who have made some headway into recovering some outstanding fees and are currently persuing others through the courts.

A lenient and fair payment option has been given to all shareholders to catch up on their debts including not charging any fees this year at all in the hope of collecting enough outstanding debt to cover this year's services.

The Management Agent has recently suggested the introduction of a Permit Parking System controlled by NCPS or similar. Not that we have any major issues with parking in the estate but more so as a mechanism of ensuring fees are paid. i.e. You make no effort to pay your fees - you get no parking permit - you get clamped - you pay €150 each time you get clamped.

As the majority of the non-payers are Landlords and not owner occupiers, it will be their tenants who suffer the consequences.

Whilst I actually agree with the idea in priciple (will have to be passed at the AGM), I just wonder what peoples thoughts are on this?
 
Make sure the tenants get lots of notice of the new policy, so they can chase down their landlords and arrange permits.
 
No. But, my understanding is that the scheme could be implemented regardless if a shareholder majority votes in favour at an EGM or the AGM.

Stand to be corrected though.
 
I have heard of this as a method of collecting outstanding fees and it can be quite successful. It really riles me when landlords don't pay their fees as they are fully tax deductible for registered landlords whereas the rest of us won't even get tax relief on the refuse portion after this year.

If a tenant has a lease that includes a parking space then they can take action against their landlord if their vehicle gets clamped.

There's generally a clause in most purchase agreements that the directors can implement policies or change development rules in the interest of the Management Company should a situation arise.
 
Complainer,

There was mention of a 1 month lead in and then posting warning stickers for another month before clamping, Fair enough i think.
 
Make sure that leases do not specify a particular parking spot. If your lease has a designated space, you can't make people have a permit for it. We looked into it for similar reasons and had to abandon the idea.
 
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