McNeil Commercial has built up a bit of a reputation for resolving commercial property service charge disputes.
How have we done this?
Well a lot of our work comes via solicitors or accountants and they contact us because they need someone who is a niche specialist to analyse in detail their clients concerns over service charge sums demanded.
We get a hold of the lease, details of the issues in question and visit the property. In our opinion a service charge analysis cannot be done without listening carefully to the client and visiting the property to complete an inspection.
We look at what has been charged and make up our own mind on the correct charging scheme at a property. In preparing this report we look at not only the service charge clauses in the lease but also all of the other terms so that a proper strategy can be formulated and the big picture is not overlooked. We use our proprietary service charge checklist, which has more than 150 points, to be checked.
Only after all of the above do we produce a concise easy to read report for our client on our findings, conclusions and recommendations. There are times when our clients are being undercharged or where the charges absolutely spot on. In these cases we would recommend monitoring expenditure going forward and explain the reasons why.
We report our recommendations to our client and follow through for as long as it takes.
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