Bills
Joy, get back this weekend and find an £800 service charge bill for the house. I was rather hoping they’d ask for quarterly or 6 monthly payments, not all of it up front. Hey well. I also got a reminder from the electricity company for my meter readings. I tried to enter them but it would appear a proper meter reader has been round already and entered the wrong values for my meter so I am now unable to put the real figures in as they’re lower than what’s in there already. Why do I get the impression this one is going to take weeks to sort out? ‘Tis the season to get hacked of with people demanding money from me.
£800 for a whole year? Blimey, I knew there must have been a reason for living so far from civilisation!
Don’t forget my teeny tiny mortgage and my minuscule £150 ground rent.
Actually, my ground rent is a measly £146. Don’t want to think of the mortgage too much though.
What ground rent again?
I be all pleased about it but for the fact that I have to pay city taxes despite not being hooked up to even mains water
Ground rent is that thing you have to pay when you’re umbered with a leasehold property. We can’t all be well paid managers and vets in the yoonited states
That said, when the development is finished apparently the management company buys the leasehold off the construction company and, since I am a shareholder in the management company, I should, technically, be paying myself the ground rent. I’m sure it’s not going to work like that though. I’d go look it up but my brain hurts.