Overview

Flat owners frequently find it productive to form a residents committee within the building to represent their interests.  Residents committees come in many forms and are sometimes also known in the building as residents’ associations, right to manage companies, and resident management companies.

In this section, you will learn all about what a resident committee is, how to go about forming a residents committee and running it effectively as well as the legal liabilities of the people running the committee.  If you have more questions, require further clarification, or want to suggest an article don’t forget to contact us, comment on an article or leave a comment in our forum.

SETTING UP A Residents’ committee

Getting a group of leaseholders together to help things run smoothly in your building is advisable. Yashmin Mistry, solicitor in the leasehold enfranchisement department of Brethertons LLP, highlights the legal need-to-knows What is a Residents’ Association?A tenants’ or residents’ association is a group of leaseholders who have been granted leases from the same Landlord on similar terms and which leases include provisions for the payment of variable service charges.To be effective, a residents’ association should be formally recognised.

The Woes of Being a Director

Within the Oxford Concise English Dictionary there are many meanings of the word ‘woe’.  Examples being: bitter grief, distress, calamities, troubles, problems, (told me a tale of woe), woe betide there will be unfortunate consequences. 

We need volunteer directors - but

... the Government is scaring them off. By Jane Barry

Q: I’ve been asked to become a Director of the residents management company for my block, but I’m not sure what the implications of this are. Can you help?

Practical banking issues facing the self-manager

One of the most immediate concerns of a residents’ board when a block goes self-managed is to keep leaseholders’ money safe. The second is to invest it prudently. By James Thomson

Payment where payment is due

Property managers frequently complain that they would be able to manage their properties far more efficiently if only lessees would pay their service charges on time. Getting lessees to pay what is due is for some property managers a full time job, leaving little time to spend actually doing what they do best (i.e. manage properties). By Shaun Jardine

Do you need a tenants association?

A Tenant’s Association is a group of flat owners who have flats either on lease or tenancy from the same Landlord on similar terms which make provision for the payment of service charges.

Create a community - Start a resident's newsletter

Stand up and be counted - Peter Nicholas explains the different ways decisions can be taken by your Residents Association Company

Do you need a Tenant's Association?

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