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MHML quotes – you mean, one presumes, our projected idea of savings to be made and then how to appropriated on the unaffordable items? Impossible i would surmise, but you only have to peruse our much maligned www.mitrehouse.com \[quotes\] to see an abundance of approx. three separate independent quotes for each and every aspect of all interior proposals including our much maligned total works quotes, £25,000, £35,000 etc And how would I know what works I would progress, how long they would take and how much I would charge. In truth, just as when we purchased the Head Lease in 2011, it was decided that we \[MHML\] would not charge any management fees as I was quite content to be an on site 24/7 concierge, but as made abundantly clear mid 2012 when Mrs Hillgarth was starting her reign of congenital complaining \[resulting in her RTM the following year 2013 to insist on her Wade contractors and their works she’d requested they quote for\] we changed our minds and decided to make a charge for the inordinate time, correspondence and sheer stupidity we were having to put up with \[we, being mainly me..\] – as such I decided to charge for my workings! When the final s.20, 22 June 2014, Notice was published, how could we have any idea of what savings could be made and from whom? This s.20 \[one of far too many thanks to Mrs Hillgarth and her RTM fiasco\] was simply announcing all final tenders with an intention and recommendation to appoint the cheapest, AR Lawrence for £105,019 as opposed to any other including Wade for £219,000, or even one of the three “internals” only costings. This s.20 Notice answers every accusation as it contains every bit of information needed to adequately see the wood for the trees most notably the disruption, contrariness and downright disreputable behaviour of Mrs Hillgarth and her virtual majority, Flats 3 and 9 6. Seventeen days later, and before the work had even started, your surveyor, acting on your instructions, contacted Tony White of AR Lawrence to reduce the scope of the project without any explanation. (You have already seen Mr White’s witness statement, and you have the letter from Isaacs to Tony White dated 14 July 2014 confirming the cancellation first advised on 9 July 2014 and reducing the contract from £105,877 to £63,822). A quote from you had never been produced or considered as part of the Section 20 process, but you deceived the leaseholders into believing the project was to be properly carried out by professional contractors, and then simply cancelled all the items you were capable of doing yourself in order to put money into your own pocket. Correspondence from our Surveyor \[copies you have\] make quite clear that if we were over budget some items could be trimmed, including some externals.... Hardly, as accused, me pleading poverty? Re-read our Surveyor’s extensive comprehensive correspondence as it answers all your petty and totally untrue observations – and “putting money in my pocket?’ – that’s pathetic – I only progressed works we could easily manage and do far cheaper than quoted – yes, you’ve had list after list but seem intent on deriding them along with Mrs Hillgarth maintaining all the works I