Protect Yourself Against
Agressive Dilapidations Claims
As expert dilapidations surveyors, Edgeworth Street works
for some of the largest and most successful landlords and
property managers in the UK.
Having been retained to undertake dilapidations surveys on
behalf of these clients, we understand exactly where tenants
are at their most vulnerable at the end of a lease.
The only defence you have available to you at the end of a
lease, is to engage a competent commercial builder surveyor and
hope that the landlord is not going to be too ambitious with
their dilapidations claim.
Unfortunately, successful landlords know that if their lease
is sufficiently well compiled, that they can claim a whole lot
of money from their outgoing tenants.
This is simply because few companies take any botice of the
repair and redecoration clauses in the lease when they first
sign it.
Many fail to spend money on the maintenance of their
buildings and the surrounding grounds and therefore leave
themselves open to attack at the end of the lease.
Attack is probably the right word, often with tens, if not
hundreds of thousands of Pounds at stake at the end of the
lease.
If you are just taking out (or renewing) a lease, you
can defend yourself by engaging Edgeworth Street Chartered
Building Surveyors to carry out a comprehensive,
photographic schedule of condition.
Whilst some companies believe that just a few general
photographs will suffice, we treat the schedule of
condition survey differently, using the "poacher turned
gamekeeper" approach, looking for all of the things that we
would look to exploit in a dilapidations survey.
Our schedule of condition survey also includes
commentary so that there can be no doubt at the eand of the
lease as to the condition of the property in question.
A good quality schedule of condition is essential if you are
to defend an aggressive dilapidations claim at the end of your
lease.
For a free and confidential
discussion, without obligation, please call Robert Street or
David Carter on 0121 733 8686.
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