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“HOW DID YOU THINK MHML WERE FUNDING THE NEW LIGHTING?”
“Just turning to the works to be done in your flat, there is clearly some concern that works done in your flat are coinciding with the works to common parts, in your email of the 12th August you mention that the works to your flat are being carried out by A and R Laurence, but in the email below you say that you are carrying out the works yourself.”
“Without doubt this is leading to concern that there could be some sort of benefit in kind with the Contractor and Management of Mitre House, of which the lessee's are unaware.”
“| would suggest that you need to confirm to everybody concerned that this is not the case, and that any works being carried out for you, or any other member of Management, by A and R Laurence, or indeed any firm contracted to do works at Mitre House are not as a benefit of larger agreed contractual works for the building as a whole.”
If ever proof were needed of your client’s irresponsible and despicable misinformation to other lessees this is a perfect example. Her initial email to me on 12 August 2014 requesting: “can you please tell us (NOTE “us” not me?) who will be doing the refurbishment of your flat?” was copied in to ALL lessees, hence the various comments back.
Mr Karupiah replied to her impertinent request saying: “as a Director of MHML she was entitled to request of me as a fellow Director but not to copy to all lessees unless attempting as she was to cause alarm, and my reply to Mrs Hillgarth’s email stating quite understandably sarcastically, that both Benitor & AR Lawrence were employed after hours and at week-ends was no more or no less as ridiculous a response as to her ridiculous innuendo, having no basis of truth - but still communicated back to all lessees by Mrs Hillgarth, so the damage she intended on doing was achieved stirring up other lessees quite understandably had the situation been as Mrs Hillgarth still believed and hoped it was.
I mention this episode as just one example of many that Mrs Hillgarth communicated to other lessees to cause the same type of mischief, use of basement as office, vote rigging etc, that we (MHML) had to endure whilst she remained a Director of MHML, in breach of her lease covenants and demanding both a budget that was totally unaffordable from existing Reserves without a substantial (£7500 - £12,500) call on lessees to adequately fund (Interior & Exterior) utilising her preferred contractor, Wade (a call which not one lessee including Mrs Hillgarth agreed to contribute and insisting the internals & externals to not run concurrently as no savings could be made by doing so and the works (internal/external) required differing skillsets, and sec- ondly MHML should be replaced by an external “professional” agent - and she maintained that there was a majority of lessees that agreed with her which was totally untrue or unproved de- spite MHML constantly asking her to provide written evidence from each lessee as indeed was possible as she organised the “non” to using Benitor as previously described.
Mrs Hillgarth’s virtual majority consisted of herself, and Flats 3 and 9 joined somewhat bizarrely by Flat 8 in the final stages of 2014. That left a silent majority of five lessees v her four?
This was again evidenced in a recent vote taken by our present Agents, Maunder Taylor, who requested of all 9 leaseholders whether they preferred a concurrent workings for the upcoming 2020 Interior/Exterior and again a majority voted for concurrent, with almost the same minority of Mrs Hillgarth and her minority allies voting against?
Maunder Taylor also insisted on advising lessees of works’ costs/budgets to include vat & fees in exactly the same way that MHML did on all s.20 notices which Mrs Hillgarth considered unprofessional and misleading and advised all other lessees of her gripes? We rest our case.
As for allegedly not responding to query emails or requests from Mrs Hillgarth or lessees (as witnessed by Mrs Hillgarth’s own Witness Statement @ para 73 where she admits neither she nor any other lessee requested nor were denied access to our YE2014 accounts documenta- tion), or indeed sending innumerable conflicting or confusing emails to her and other lessees might I remind her that I only ever replied/responded/answered received emails and rarely if ever, save for the letter that always accompanied the Quarterly Demands with an update on cur- rent news at Mitre House, did I instigate email correspondence.
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