One of the many irritating things about this shared-ownership thing was (is!) the fact that it classifies me automatically as riff-raff, in terms of rights as an owner and as a tenant. I wasn't allowed to use the main entrance to the building (it was built with two, one for the 'private owners' or their tenants, on Fortess Road, another much ( Read more... )

Was replying to Rhona when she commented about the service charge situation and thought it needed to be a wider post. At this point, somebody from the housing association emailed me to say 'don't pay that bill, it is in error' but the charge still appears in my account on their web site and I have received no official communication from them after ( Read more... )