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range 02 of 03

hybrid

You keep the keys. We take the phone calls.

The middle range, for directors who do not mind running a building but have stopped enjoying being the person their neighbours ring at nine on a Sunday. Everything in admin only, and then we stand in front of you.

no site visits anywhere in england and wales
a flat, a year £150 £1,250 minimum · + vat the price it prints is the price you pay
the shelf

what you get

Everything on this list is in the price unless it says otherwise. There is no other list, and there is no extras schedule waiting in year two.

money and accounts

annual budget

A proper one, built from last year's actuals and agreed with you before any demand goes out.

included

service charge demands

Every flat, correct apportionments, on time, and carrying the statutory summary of rights that makes them enforceable.

included

arrears chased

Reminders on a schedule, then escalation up to the point where it becomes a solicitor's job.

included

bookkeeping

A full year of transactions recorded and reconciled against the bank, packaged for your accountant.

included

year-end accounts produced

Us drawing up the service charge accounts themselves rather than handing them to your accountant. Cheaper than an accountant, and optional on every range.

+£100

section 20B notices

The eighteen month notices that keep costs recoverable when a bill lands before the demand does.

included

reporting to directors

Budget against actual, arrears position and reserve balance, quarterly.

included

designated client account

We hold the service charge in a designated client account, separate from our own money and held on the statutory trust that Section 42 puts it under. It is the block's money, it is never mixed with ours, and it does not move without a reason you can see in the books.

included

payments made from the account

Contractors, utilities and the insurer paid out of the client account once you have approved the spend, so a director is not out of pocket waiting to be reimbursed.

included
company and statutory

confirmation statement

Filed at Companies House on the deadline, every year.

included

companies house accounts

Prepared and filed for the management company.

included

director changes

Appointments, resignations and address changes filed as they happen.

included

register of members

Kept up to date as flats change hands, so the company register matches the Land Registry.

included

agm notice and minutes

Notice drafted and circulated, minutes written up afterwards.

included

sales packs and lpe1

The pack a solicitor asks for when a flat is being sold, answered off the register rather than rebuilt from scratch. Normally paid by the seller, not the block, and quoted when one is needed.

quoted per pack
compliance

compliance calendar

Fire, electrical, gas, lift, water and insurance renewals tracked, with reminders before anything lapses.

included

certificates stored and chased

Held in one place and chased off the contractor when they are late, which they usually are.

included

assessments commissioned

Fire risk assessment, EICR, legionella and the rest booked in and paid for out of the service charge.

included

contractor competence checked

Insurance, accreditations and references checked before anyone works on your building.

included
leaseholders

leaseholder letters

We write the awkward ones so you do not have to fall out with your neighbours.

included

leaseholders deal with us direct

They write to us, not to you. Queries, complaints, arrears, the lot.

included

consents

Alterations, subletting and pets, handled against what the lease actually says.

included

complaints procedure

A written procedure, run by us, with the redress scheme as the backstop.

included

section 20 consultation

Major works consultation run properly and on the statutory timetable, so the bill is actually recoverable. Getting this wrong caps what you can recover at £250 a flat.

included
building and contractors

contractors found and quoted

We source the trades, get the quotes in and put them in front of you to pick.

included

contractors chased

The three week wait for a callback becomes our problem instead of yours.

included

invoices checked against quote

Nothing gets paid at a number nobody agreed to.

included
insurance

renewal tracked

You get told before it lapses, on every range.

included
the software

servanda, at no extra cost

The compliance software we run your block on, included in the fee on every range. Most agents either have nothing like it or charge you for the portal.

included

your compliance position, in traffic lights

Every requirement on your building, red amber or green, with what was last done, when it is next due and the certificate attached. No more wondering whether the fire alarm test happened.

included

file your own certificate

On admin only you book the checks, so you record the check as done and drop the certificate straight in, in your own name. It lands on the register the same second, which is the phone call to the office that never has to happen.

included

works and inspections in hand

What is booked, who is coming, and what we are chasing them for. Contractors get chased automatically and the chasing stops when they answer.

included

authorise invoices online

Suppliers' invoices come to the board to approve, with the quote beside them. We can see whether the board has opened it, so silence gets a phone call rather than another email.

included

vote on resolutions, minutes written for you

Directors vote in the portal, the outcome is worked out against your articles, and the minute writes itself. A tie is called a deadlock and the minute names the ways out of it.

included

residents report issues themselves

A link your leaseholders can use to report a problem, which lands as a tracked issue instead of a text message to a director on a Sunday.

included

section 20 on the clock

Consultations tracked against the statutory timetable, with the notices drafted and the deadlines counted, so a major works bill does not get capped at £250 a flat on a technicality.

included
not on this range

what you do not get

£50 a flat more than admin only buys you out of every conversation you did not want to have, and puts the Section 20 paperwork on us. That is the whole difference between the two ranges.

compliance

higher-risk buildings

Buildings over 18 metres or seven storeys carry the Building Safety Act regime and a named Accountable Person. We do not take that on, on any range. If that is your building you need a specialist, and we will say so rather than take the fee.

not included
building and contractors

site visits

A walk round the building, written up the same week with photographs and a list of what needs doing.

not included

extra site visits

More than the four, or an unplanned one when something has gone wrong.

not included

works supervised on site

We meet the trades at the building, check the work and sign it off before it gets paid.

not included

out of hours emergencies

A number that gets answered when the roof goes at eleven at night.

not included

keys held

So a contractor can be let in without a director taking a day off.

not included

cyclical maintenance plan

A written plan for decorations, roofs and plant, costed, so the reserve fund has a job to do.

not included
insurance

cover placed for you

We get the quotes and put the policy on. We take nothing from the premium.

not included

claims handled

Reported, evidenced and chased through to settlement.

not included
the honest bit

what we never charge for

Agents make most of their money after the fee is agreed. That is the part we took out, and it is taken out of all three ranges equally.

£0.00

works mark-ups

A £4,000 roof costs you £4,000. We pass the invoice through at what it says on it.

£0.00

insurance commissions

You see the broker's figure, not the broker's figure with ours added to it.

£0.00

contractor kickbacks

No panel, no referral fee, no reason for us to pick the dearer quote. So we do not.

£0.00

exit fees

Three months' notice and your files back. Leaving costs nothing, which is how it should be.

who buys this one

is this your block?

→Directors who want the building but not the correspondence
→Blocks where one volunteer is quietly doing everything and is about to resign
→Anyone who has worked out that the awkward conversations are the actual job

Anywhere in England and Wales. We deal with your leaseholders and your contractors by phone and email, which works exactly as well from here as it would from an office down the road.

price your block

The till already knows this range. Tell it how many flats and it prints the price, with the whole formula on the receipt so you can check our maths.

open the till

no discovery call · no callback form · anywhere in england and wales

the other ranges

not quite right?

Same paperwork underneath all three. The only thing that changes is how much of the building we take off your hands.