🗨️ "I am trapped in a shared-ownership flat, which is proving ­impossible to sell because the fire safety engineer who surveyed the block is accused of forging fire safety certificates (...) This is my first home, but it’s beginning to seem like a prison" https://t.co/0LU5BUqFeS

Anyone else fallen victim to this utter bastard recently? My family and I were gearing up to move imminently. Now my baby daughter has to continue sharing her bedroom with her parents. Shame on you, Adam Kiziak.

UK housing: tell us how your service charge has changed over the last year

Thought I will provide updates on my lease extension I am currently going through for the benefit of other leaseholders in similar situation. #leasehold I have had 2 sales not go through on £195,000 flat in Teesside because the ground rent is £390 a year classing it as an AST

After a bit of time offline, sadly I’m back with all my leaseholder woes! L&Q leaseholders - have you had any deficits on your service charge final bills this year? Ours comes out soon (we’ve never had deficits before) and I’m nervous…

"According to the government’s own data, the average service charges leaseholders pay is now £3,634." Mine is now £6k pa @RFAssociation and your "professional freeholder" member E&M has been exclusively focused on frustrating building safety remediation for the last 7 years.

🗨️ "I’m one of the millions of people caught up in the cladding scandal after the Grenfell Tower tragedy." "The issue I care about has been ignored by Sunak and Starmer." #GeneralElection2024 @UKLabour @Conservatives @LibDems @TheGreenParty https://t.co/nZ2ddrGnQG

Cracking ‘paint match’ job from @LQHomesMatter here. Only had to wait three YEARS for this. Please tell me you’re coming back to sand it down and do it PROPERLY soon?? @LQcontactus

13/ My dad was the one who gave me the money for my deposit on this place. Now he’s gone, his ‘legacy’ to me is in absolute pieces. Shame on you for letting this sort of thing become the everyday for leaseholders. ‘Homes matter’? Evidently profits matter more.

12/ Everything about our flat has been done on the cheap and is shoddy as hell. Case in point - our floor tiles ‘move’ and have cracked because of some strange underlay that’s been used. Great.

11/ We had to move out immediately as it was a health hazard - black mould climbing the walls for weeks which, unknown to us then, was actual human excrement.

10/ And this isn’t the first issue I’ve had with L&Q. Three years ago, we were forced to leave our home for almost A YEAR due to a horrendous leak from the communal waste stack that cracked/burst in our flat. Lots of possessions ruined.

9/ Our service charge is up 18% this year alone, and for what? An inflated management fee, buildings insurance for a development that already has EWS1 B1 status, front doors that break constantly, a baby-trap of a lift and grass so overgrown you can’t see your feet in it.

8/ I’m PAYING for this experience in every sense of the word. It’s wrong and bloody exhausting fighting it.

7/ It was terrifying. And now I’m back at home, I’m trying not to dwell but I feel so angry. Angry that it happened; angry that WE, the leaseholders, will be billed to fix this lift that keeps breaking down because L&Q can’t provide us with a decent engineer to fix it properly.

6/ The engineer turned up around the same time as the fire service. He was excellent and climbed into the lift shaft just as the firemen and my husband forced the door to get us out. In total, it took 4 caretakers, 4 firefighters and 1 lift engineer and 1 husband to get us out.

5/ Caretaker then rightly called the fire service and kept me and my husband (who was on the other side of the doors) updated. I have nothing but good things to say about our caretaker.

4/ They called the caretaker to assist - he then called three other caretakers who turned up very quickly (he’s a great guy). But none of them had the tool needed to open the lift door. How is that safe?!