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About Your Building
Number of full time staff
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Communal Hot Water
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Number of lifts
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Number of entrances
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Communal Garden
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Car park spaces
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Approx age of building (years)
Ownership type
RTM
Share of Freehold
Single Freeholder
Other
Do you suffer from service charge arrears?
Yes
No
Building postcode
Number of units in block
Approx service charge per unit per year (£)
Your Service Requirements
Inspections
Monthly - For buildings with new management or have suffered from historically poor maintenance and are implementing improvements
Quarterly - For buildings without permanent staff which need detailed inspection across large communal areas
Yearly - For buildings with active leaseholders (who are able to report issues) and with easy visibility
How often managing agents should make a detailed review of the building
Reporting
Monthly - For buildings that have experienced financial difficulties and require close monitoring
Quarterly - For larger buildings where the costs could spiral out of control
Every 6 Months - For smaller buildings with small budgets
How often formal reports reconciling all incomes and costs should be made to the RTM board from the managing agent
Frequency of financial updates
Weekly - For building that have experienced financial difficulties and require close monitoring
Quarterly - For larger buildings where the costs could spiral out of control
Yearly - For smaller buildings with small budgets
How often full statements of account should be provided
Tenant management and licencing
Complete a full register which is checked on a monthly basis
Optional licencing scheme for leaseholders which is NOT legally enforced
No licencing and tenant monitoring
How closely each tenant moving in and out of each flat should be monitored
Minimum discretionary spend
Maximum - £250
Medium - £100
Zero – all spending decisions are made by the RTM board - £0
The amount of money that the managing agent can spend on building necessities without asking permission of the RTM Directors. The legal maximum is £250 per flat and the lower the threshold the more time the managing agent will spend on reviewing spending decisions with the RTM Directors
Cleaning
Daily - For large and busy buildings with a large amount of footfall
Weekly- For buildings with a low use of communal areas
None - For building with their own cleaning staff or which do not require cleaning
The regularity of basic cleaning of the internal areas
Leaseholder updates and communications
Monthly updates showing the frequent building changes
Quarterly updates detailing the changes to the building
Single updates once a year at an Annual General Meeting (AGM)
The regularity of building communications to the leaseholders – these are often required more frequently when the building in investing in improvements
Staff management
Weekly - Close management of staff (e.g., completing the payroll and HR compliance tasks and providing weekly instructions)
Monthly - Medium management of staff (e.g., completing the payroll and HR compliance tasks and tracking monthly activities)
Quarterly - Light management of staff (e.g., completing the payroll and HR compliance tasks and completing quarterly reviews)
How closely the on-site building staff should be managed and how often instructions provided
Gardening
Yearly landscaping reviews and very regular tending - Weekly
Basic maintenance for none-complex garden - Monthly
Tidying of artificial grass, hanging baskets etc - Quarterly
The expertise required to design and maintain the garden and outside areas
Care of specialist buildings and estates
Quarterly - For buildings where a large part of their value is dependent on maintaining specialist materials
Yearly - For older buildings with problems such as erosion, water ingress
Expert reviews and recommendations to maintain old buildings and estates built using specialist materials
Step (for form control)
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Post code
Email Address
Energy Contract Review
Energy Contract Review
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No
Frequency of cleaning
Frequency of cleaning
Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Quarterly
Frequency of calls with agent
Frequency of calls with agent
Weekly
Fortnightly
Monthly
Quarterly
Yearly
Secretarial services
Secretarial services
Yes
No
Approx floor area of building (sq meters)
Insurance review
Insurance review
Yes
No
Phone number
Basic Details
Post Code
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Yearly service charge per unit (£)
Number of units in block
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Email
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What are you looking for?
Block management
Major works
Service charge
Estate management
RTM or Share of Freehold
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Service level needed
If known, what is the level of service that you require?
Basic - low touch
Medium
High - Fully Managed
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Number of lifts
Number of entrances
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