Hi there

I'm dreading my service charge this year (also am a leaseholder in a block managed by Lewisham Homes). I'm already going to complain about last years efforts. We supposed to have our lifts cleaned every day (which doesn't happen) and even when it does it's a really half-a***d job (especially when some lovely person decides to use it as a urinal on a regular basis).

Not only that but we've just had the block repainted. It was going to come to ?500 per flat, but they 'just discovered' that there is some serious concrete infrastructure that needs to be sorted out. And guess what? We can all ad ?2,770 to our initial bill of ?500...

If I'm not mistaken we're also waiting to have the lift maintenance carried out. No holidays for me for the next couple of years then...

I have already complained once and been fobbed off. My next plan is to chat to all the other residents and the CAB because I feel Lewisham Homes should be doing an annual building inspection, and if they have done it properly which they obviously didn't) then they would have picked up this concrete problem a long time ago and it wouldn't have been so expensive to fix.

I am fuming. Apologies for the rant.