What is Capulet Square?
Capulet Square is an Estate complex in East London composed by 4 blocks: Bailey House, Wealden House, Shire House and Padstone House and 3 buildings with 104 Flats... a pretty big complex One of the key feature of the Estate is its location 1 min walk to the Brombley by Bow underground station The development was completed in 2006 and most of the owners bought the flats for investment reasons off-plan from the developer (Berkley). Most of leaseholders are not resident and a good part of them is resident abroad. These factors played a big role in what has happened at Capulet Square When the Freeholder - Fairhold Artemis- took over from the developer, they appointed Trinity Estates as the Building Manager. In an Estate over 100 flats it is a must to have a professional firm running the operations (including the service charge collection)
Trinity, the Rouge and the First-tier Tribunal
Back in early 2010s a burglary case happened in the Estate that together with a few (allegedly) small micro-criminal episodes created a sense of mistrust in the Building Manager (Trinity) from some leaseholders and this situation was exploit by the Rouge Director, the Rouge or the Rat for short. Back in 2013 The Rouge convinced some leaseholders (with the help of a letting agency that at that managed 40ish flats) that they had to go after Trinity to recover over paid service charges. To be noticed that at this point he was already not paying his... He collected some cash, raised the case at the Tribunal (FTT with a section 27 - aka: Service Charge reduction case) and because of his stupid behaviour in court, the applications whom he was leading ended out to pay the cost of the case (pretty unusual situation...). After waste people money and time, and arguing that they should have appealed people backed off and the case finished there. At this point, the Rat smelled that he could make some money out of the Estate and avoid paying his S/C so he engaged Urang (A professional building manager) and with their help he created the RTM (Right to Manage) company and through an application to the FTT (Section 24) the company got the right to manage the Estate from the Freeholder on behalf of the Leaseholders. For details of what is an RTM check here: https://www.lease-advice.org/advice-guide/right-manage/. The key point here is "The Right to Manage lets you and the other leaseholders take over certain management responsibilities from the landlord without having to prove bad management.". What this means is that The Rouge managed to collect the signature from the leaseholders (who didnt really understand the process) and simply apply to the tribunal. This is a fundamental point of confusion, THERE IS A TRIBUNAL CASE BUT IT IS SIMPLY AN APPLICATION TO GET THE RIGHT TO MANAGE
The beginning of the reign of terror of The Rouge
At this point the story really starts. The Rouge could start collecting the service charges on the back of the tribunal order and start controlling the bank account where this service charges were and are collected. This was the start of a total disaster for the Estate, with a single incompetent person in full command only partially controlled by Urang but impossible to stop on his pursue of stupidity. .... the story will continue in another post. Next who is the Rouge
Capulet Square is an Estate complex in East London composed by 4 blocks: Bailey House, Wealden House, Shire House and Padstone House and 3 buildings with 104 Flats... a pretty big complex One of the key feature of the Estate is its location 1 min walk to the Brombley by Bow underground station The development was completed in 2006 and most of the owners bought the flats for investment reasons off-plan from the developer (Berkley). Most of leaseholders are not resident and a good part of them is resident abroad. These factors played a big role in what has happened at Capulet Square When the Freeholder - Fairhold Artemis- took over from the developer, they appointed Trinity Estates as the Building Manager. In an Estate over 100 flats it is a must to have a professional firm running the operations (including the service charge collection)
Trinity, the Rouge and the First-tier Tribunal
Back in early 2010s a burglary case happened in the Estate that together with a few (allegedly) small micro-criminal episodes created a sense of mistrust in the Building Manager (Trinity) from some leaseholders and this situation was exploit by the Rouge Director, the Rouge or the Rat for short. Back in 2013 The Rouge convinced some leaseholders (with the help of a letting agency that at that managed 40ish flats) that they had to go after Trinity to recover over paid service charges. To be noticed that at this point he was already not paying his... He collected some cash, raised the case at the Tribunal (FTT with a section 27 - aka: Service Charge reduction case) and because of his stupid behaviour in court, the applications whom he was leading ended out to pay the cost of the case (pretty unusual situation...). After waste people money and time, and arguing that they should have appealed people backed off and the case finished there. At this point, the Rat smelled that he could make some money out of the Estate and avoid paying his S/C so he engaged Urang (A professional building manager) and with their help he created the RTM (Right to Manage) company and through an application to the FTT (Section 24) the company got the right to manage the Estate from the Freeholder on behalf of the Leaseholders. For details of what is an RTM check here: https://www.lease-advice.org/advice-guide/right-manage/. The key point here is "The Right to Manage lets you and the other leaseholders take over certain management responsibilities from the landlord without having to prove bad management.". What this means is that The Rouge managed to collect the signature from the leaseholders (who didnt really understand the process) and simply apply to the tribunal. This is a fundamental point of confusion, THERE IS A TRIBUNAL CASE BUT IT IS SIMPLY AN APPLICATION TO GET THE RIGHT TO MANAGE
The beginning of the reign of terror of The Rouge
At this point the story really starts. The Rouge could start collecting the service charges on the back of the tribunal order and start controlling the bank account where this service charges were and are collected. This was the start of a total disaster for the Estate, with a single incompetent person in full command only partially controlled by Urang but impossible to stop on his pursue of stupidity. .... the story will continue in another post. Next who is the Rouge
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