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p) if that is considered poor management, then so be it, but only Mrs Hillgarth is of that opinion.
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m) we did not receive any further communication from Mrs Hillgarth nor indeed any other lessee regarding the 2014 accounts, until the 2015 accounts [as ever punctually] were published and sent to all lessees on 15 March 2016 and the thirteen page 23 March 2016 from Mr. Begg demanding references from the 2014 accounts and making all kinds of untrue accusations, all of which were evidenced by ourselves as being totally untrue and requesting confirmation of such. None has been forthcoming.
n) amongst many other innuendos and slurs, Mrs Hillgarth is of the opinion that MHML is not only unfit to manage but incompetent to manage.
o) for the record [and well indicated to all lessees and published on our website] lessees at Mitre House are now paying £54 [yes fifty-four] per annum more today than they were paying in 2011 to KFH the year before we took over from KFH on 1 January 2012 and that’s after a £105,877 major works programme totally funded from Reserves with capacity to spare thanks to careful husbandry of both works and funds.
I hope the above points are helpful for Mr. Belafonte’s full consideration and will form the basis of my intended meeting with him following your [Mr. Begg’s) referral to him for what we consider to be nefarious and totally unnecessary and insidious reasons which no doubt Mrs Hillgarth will be charged for doing.
As I hope we have made clear earlier, we are reluctant to employ legal assistance as those costs, which will be as usual substantial in such a complicated situation as this has turned out to be, are permitted to be charged to the Service Charge account and consequently to be paid by all lessees which does include myself and my two fellow co-directors as well as Mrs Hillgarth.
One seriously doubts that the remaining lessees at Mitre House will be either consensual or in agree- ment to having thousands of pounds added to their Quarterly Demands due to yet another attempt by Mrs Hillgarth to discredit present management as she has previously employed with previous Agents.
And all whilst totally ignoring and refusing to comply with her legally bound lease covenants to the detriment of all other lessees at Mitre House and in truth, the main reason she is yet again attempting her well documented and frequent vilification of myself and MHML.
My apologies to Mr. Belafonte as 99.9% of the above relates to the various accusations we have denied and proved fictitious but still remain stubbornly unacknowledged as agreed [or denied with supporting evidence] by Mrs Hillgarth, as indeed was our initial offer of 1 April 2016 to comply with the request for documentation which also remained totally unacknowledged by both your goodself and Mrs Hillgarth.
Please have Mrs Hillgarth [or you, Mr. Begg] confirm that once we retain Solicitors to defend our position against the slurs and innuendos perpetrated against MHML to date, all legal expenses are understood by Mrs Hillgarth to be chargeable against the Service Charge account and she will pre-advise all lessees of this possibility and the subsequent probable high costs if she continues in her vilification of MHML.
What legal actions we three directors entertain eventually against Mrs Hillgarth will be at her cost totally. And I must advise you that by your own admittance in your 23 March 2016 thirteen pager, you admit to having perused Mrs Hillgarth’s voluminous correspondence with MHML, and have quoted various excerpts from emails as well as communicating the slurs and accusations, which, seeing as we have supplied documentary evidence to disprove those accusations from that same voluminous correspon- dence as being patently untrue, would point to your due diligence being also suspect.
Yours sincerely,
Paul Brown-Constable
cc Segar Karupiah, Dima International Ltd
Please find attached for further reference: (not sent to Mr. Belafonte but will be discussed when we meet) i) Case Study references to decor quotes and MHML’s advice (published on our website since 2013).
ii) a repeat of email dated June 2014 outlining a full and comprehensive history of emails & responses,
a document you will note, evidencing everything stated and explained in correspondence to date.
iii) window repair invoices for Flat 5 (and cheques made direct to Contractor, not MHML)
iv) various May 2014 emails (items 4-16)
v) one June 2014 email (item 17)
vi) minutes of 23 May 2014 (Item 18) vii) RBK&C letter 22 April 2016 and reply to Mr Belafonte