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Author	Working_on_Writing
Comment	Much as I hate factors, it's not usually their fault. The problem is that even if you have a majority of owners who want to keep a building in good condition, there's no legal recourse (AFAIK) to force slumlords/absentee landlords to contribute. I'm experiencing it in slow motion in my current tenement. The building is in pretty poor repair and needs some preventative TLC, e.g. gutters replaced. About 6/8 of the owners are behind any and all work to improve the state of the building because it's shoddy and we all know it. However, we've got I think 2 slumlords in the building, and anything over about £100 they don't want to pay. The building could literally be about to collapse and if they had to pay £500 towards preventing it, they wouldn't. This is exacerbated by the factors being fucking worthless most of the time, so I have to hunt round to get competing quotes for work until I can find the cheapest possible solution which the slumlords will hopefully agree to. If they say no, the only option is to basically carry the parasites and ask everyone else to contribute more than their fair share, which really fucking sucks because it just justifies the shit behaviour by the slumlords. Why put your hand in your pocket when you can get a free ride from the other owners? There really needs to be some sort of legal backing to majority decisions when it comes to shared-ownership buildings. E.g. if most of the owners agree we need new gutters, we should be able to take the minority to court to force them to pay up.
Reddit Link	https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/pxj1xr/strange_boarded_up_flat_in_hillhead/heph9w2/
Created	Wed 29th Sep 2021 11:47am
Status	normal ()

Much as I hate factors, it's not usually their fault. The problem is that even if you have a majority of owners who want to keep a building in good condition, there's no legal recourse (AFAIK) to force slumlords/absentee landlords to contribute.

I'm experiencing it in slow motion in my current tenement. The building is in pretty poor repair and needs some preventative TLC, e.g. gutters replaced. About 6/8 of the owners are behind any and all work to improve the state of the building because it's shoddy and we all know it. However, we've got I think 2 slumlords in the building, and anything over about £100 they don't want to pay. The building could literally be about to collapse and if they had to pay £500 towards preventing it, they wouldn't.

This is exacerbated by the factors being fucking worthless most of the time, so I have to hunt round to get competing quotes for work until I can find the cheapest possible solution which the slumlords will hopefully agree to.

If they say no, the only option is to basically carry the parasites and ask everyone else to contribute more than their fair share, which really fucking sucks because it just justifies the shit behaviour by the slumlords. Why put your hand in your pocket when you can get a free ride from the other owners?

There really needs to be some sort of legal backing to majority decisions when it comes to shared-ownership buildings. E.g. if most of the owners agree we need new gutters, we should be able to take the minority to court to force them to pay up.