Residents at Cotswold Court, Chipping Sodbury, Glos, need to be very cautious.
They have a RTM company and are in the process of appointing a new managing agent. That is their absolute right. That Keith Edgar is a director of the RTM company indicates the management contract is on its way to Freemont Property Managers.
The Freemont website advises potential customers to undertake background checks on any potential managing agents. About Peverel agrees.
The most cursory of checks will reveal Keith Edgar's lamentable conduct when associated with Peverel.
It is all too easy to find out about the systemic price fixing fraud carried out against the elderly.(please refer to the OFT report into the scandal)
It is all too easy to find out about the record refunds for fraudulantly demanded service charges. It is all too easy to find out about when David Cameron called in Keith Edgar and ordered him off a development(such was the Prime Minister's disgust at Mr Edgar's conduct, David Cameron did not even need a refurendum before acting!)
It is all too easy to find Mr Ed Davey(the former cabinet minister) describing Peverel/Firstport under Mr Edgar as being a "monstrous company"
It is all too easy to find insurance commissions of up to 40%, generating profits for the then connected freeholders.
And it is these close connections with the freeholder that is behind the potential appointment of Freemont.
Freemont is the preferred choice of the freeholders, having been closely connected and both parties having been complicit in deceiving vulnerable residents.
Due to severe financial problems being experienced by the freeholders an appointment that would assist revenue generation would suit them.
Please feel free to ask Mr Edgar if Freemont are offering a 15% incentive (or contribution to expenses) to the freeholder in return for the management contract?
By all means residents of Cotswold Court should excercise their right to manage.
They should appoint whoever they wish. They should be wary of any offer to avoid a RTM action by a willingless on the part of a freeholder to appoint a new managing agent, thus avoiding the need for any RTM action.
After even the most basic research into the activities of those currently running Freemont, could anyone ever in any circumstance appoint Freemont Property Managers?
With tighter regulation those people would have received lifetime bans from ever working in the property industry.
if anyone reading this lives anywhere near Chipping Sodbury, could they kindly pop in and show the residents this article?
