{"id":55899,"date":"2012-09-22T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T22:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-i-ditched-my-managing-agent-and-saved-money\/"},"modified":"2017-05-25T09:59:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T02:59:15","slug":"how-i-ditched-my-managing-agent-and-saved-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-i-ditched-my-managing-agent-and-saved-money\/","title":{"rendered":"How I ditched my managing agent \u2026 and saved money"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nLeasehold property owners faced with huge service charges can go it alone under Right to ManageThousands of flat owners across Britain are handing over vast sums to managing agents to cover service and maintenance charges \u2013 but it doesn’t have to be that way.My story explains how it’s both possible and practical to break away from these companies using a simple process which, in our case, cut the service charges by more than two-thirds. In the summer of 2009, as a single man in my mid-20s, I moved into my perfect home: a waterfront flat in Cardiff Bay on the top floor of a block of three flats. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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