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From: Graffiti Editions Ink/Designers studio@graffiti.biz Subject: Re: Accounts queries answered_2
Date: 14 October 2013 at 18:21
To: Michele Hillgarth mhillgarth@gmail.com
Bcc: Karupiah Segar & Lindy And Sacha segar_9@hotmail.com, Raby Lorna lornaraby@me.com
Dearest -
You are very strange - here's me trying my best to both save you money left, right and centre by controlling costs - AND - making you money by utilising our facilities and abilities.... or at least mine, to best advantage. Were you to tell me you had an idea to make me money I doubt I'd complain too much... so long as we continued living apart!
Note carefully our name, Mitre House Management Limited.... it's true that it was formed, as a legal entity and requirement, to purchase our Mitre House head lease.... but that doesn't restrict us from purchasing a hundred head leases and managing those blocks - think of the money we could be making if we were all pulling together instead of infighting over a few plants and pictures, the colour of walls and garden gnomes etc....
You are an integral part of Mitre House Management Limited - not Flats 1, 3, 4, 8 and 9 - they have nothing to do with it, or it's fortunes or its running. But you do have, or at least until you bizarrely decided to throw your passions and privacy in with them, so totally alienating yourself from your company, Mitre House Management Limited and all its prospects.
You really must make up your mind which you want to be part of as you cannot be party to both ourselves and your fellow complainers any more.
When you came to my flat to discuss various items, most notably the various lighting options, just before the meeting of 13 July, you agreed with me (I thought) that we at Mitre House Management Limited would decide how Mitre House would be decorated, not outsiders and certainly not people who'd only been in the building 18 months or even less. You agreed with me that black lift doors (which Flat 9 wanted) were not wanted. You liked the Tiffany lighting as opposed to Brass Lanterns - you even liked, as I certainly did the initial Christopher Wren/Peter Jones lighting I originally purchased - but Flat 9 called them cheap looking!!!) I think I could also have persuaded you that the whole place should be different, unique, arty- farty and not pseudo Sloane Ranger, bland and boring.....
But for some extraordinary reason you immediately that same evening started canvassing other Flats, namely Flats 4 and 8 with totally opposing views as those discussed with me? This resulted in chaos at your 13 July meeting, with me accused of fiddling the vote and then all the subsequent mayhem, quotes for £60,000 etc etc and a total 100% breakdown in relationships and worse still schedules - the summer was totally wasted with a vicious winter about to start by all accounts.
God knows how all this now gets sorted, but I do know how I'm sorting it - or indeed have! All the best of British Luck though - Paul
On 14 Oct 2013, at 17:44, Michele Hillgarth wrote:
Paul,
Thank you for finally replying. Points 1 and 2 are accepted.
Point 3 – this is news to me that you intend to extend to the management of other buildings, that has never been discussed as far as I am aware. I do not think given that the company was formed solely for the purpose of purchasing the Head Lease that this is appropriate. With regards to the £1079, sending two invoices a year to 8 flats sounds rather excessive. You have decided to all sorts of logos and cards which I think are rather irrelevant to the running of Mitre House. It also seems a rather large sum for a printer, toner and bits and bobs as you call them. Similarly the £1029 for paint and equipment seems to be rather extravagant as apart from the cupboard for housing cleaning materials I have not noPced any change or improvements to the common parts. On the contrary, you seem to drill holes