I live in an estate with around 350 houses. Since it was built in the 80s the Council have cut the grass in all the communal areas but due to cutbacks they are not doing it anymore. Title deeds of all the houses explicitly state that all the homeowners are collectivley responsible for the upkeep of these areas (so Council should never have been doing it). But crucially, there is nothing in the deeds that states rules of appointing factors (some deeds you see have a rule that state that if the majortiy of householders want to appoint etc then everyone must comply but this clause isn't in our deeds.
So I am trying to arrange something but want it to be as pain free and as informal as possible. Have had a lot of feeback from residents that they are willing to chip in to get a contractor to do this.
1.Has anyone any experience of getting a factor appointed when there was nothing written into the deeds like in this case.
2. I would like to look at the possibility of keeping things informal ie homeowners chip into a central fund and we pay the contractor direct and save on factoring. Can anyone recommend a bank/ facility / a "way" of basically collecting a tenner a month that has as little admin as possible and also as little "hoops to jump through" as possible? Idea would be we all pay a tenner a month, pay the guy at end of month, and we start afresh the next month. Thinking even of things like Justgiving type online but realise they are for charities.
To summarise, looking for as easiest way as possible to collect £10 a month without having a couple hundred folk putting envelopes through my door or me chapping every door!
Any thoughts appreciated?
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