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£900 paid on 17 July £1,250 paid on 27 August £900 on 5 October
I can see that the four payments of £900 look like quarterly payments of service charge, and that similar amounts are also paid by the other leaseholders. However the additional payments you have made amount to over £28,000 and are not made by any other leaseholder. Why have you made these payments? What were you paying for?
5. There is a Pemberton Professionals invoice No: 9931 of 30 September 2015 for £1080 for “professional services rendered in connection with a payment credited to your account in respect of PR No 11944”. What is the explanation for this please?
6. Some of the payments made out of MHML Account No 23433668 read oddly for a company account kept for service charge purposes. For example:
£36.83 paid to Pizza Express on 29 January
£19.55 paid for an E-Greetings card on 23 February
£27 paid to the Land Registry on 17 March (actually nine payments of £3 each)
£9 paid to the Land Registry on 11 May (actually three further payments of £3 each).
Please clarify to what extent you have used this account for private as well as MHML corporate purposes.
7. In relation to the Service Charge Expense Detail Report for the year ended 31 December 2015, please explain how MHML’s charges were calculated where the work was actually carried out by you? For example in 2015 for gutter cleaning (£235), or rear yard drain cleaning (£142)? And what mark-up was applied by MHML when you purchased supplies – for example replacing mats (£164), or cleaning supplies, Screwfix etc (£195)?
In the meeting I would expect you to focus solely on these issues and not to try to obfuscate the issues, as you invariably do, with mountains of irrelevant paperwork and information that has not been requested.
If you wish to do so, and are willing to discuss a possible settlement of this matter, I suggest we meet at my office in Hammersmith for this purpose on Tuesday 5 February at 2pm. That gives you well over two weeks to prepare. Please let me know if you wish to do so. If you are not prepared to meet on this basis, events will proceed in the manner I have previously described.
Yours sincerely,
P.F.C.Begg Solicitor