Licence to sub-let - take action now

By living in Demo Block your lease requires you to licence to sub-let, should you wish to rent or sublet your property:

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Few people realize that the person in charge of the ownership registers has a duty to know who is in occupation of each property at all times. Most leases provide for this by requiring at worst the lessee to serve notice that he/she has assigned or under-let or parted with possession of their flat.

How this relates to you and your property depends on what your lease requires you to do. It is every lessee's duty to ensure that we have their correct correspondence address as this is where we will send service charge demands and is therefore your "deemed service" address so please keep us up to date to ensure that you do not fall into arrears because you have not received demands.

5 reasons why control of sub-lettings helps greatly in keeping a block to run smoothly:

1. It ensures that newsletters can be mail-merged or emailed to sub-tenants who would otherwise not know what is happening in a block or not know the rules
2. It helps in times of emergency to have the sub-tenants contact numbers
3. It helps when needing to write letters regarding noise, nuisance or other neighbour issues
4. Quite rightly the nominal registration or consent costs are borne by the party profiting from the sub-letting as opposed to the other owner resident lessees.
5. Contacting a lessee who has sub-let and asking them to regularise the position ensures that the lessee complies with the duty set out in their lease to provide an address for "deemed service" and cannot use the excuse that a sub-tenant has not passed on demands as a defence for non payment of service charge

It is everybodies duty to ensure that we have their correct correspondence address as this is where we will send service charge demands and is therefore your "deemed service" address so please keep us up to date to ensure that you do not fall into arrears because you have not received demands.