Explaining What is Tenement Management in as few words as possible:
For the rest of the article, Tenement Management Scheme will be referred to as TMS.
The TMS sets and governs procedures that not only need to be followed, about decisions made about maintaining/repairing common parts, by flat owners but buildings divided into flatlets.
When title deeds do not allow for decision making or arbitration of decisions or if different owner’s deed differs on this, the TMS steps in. Known as scheme decisions once brought to the TMS by either the flat owner’s who wanted a scheme decision as no common ground was found for problems such as:
The day-to-day tasks including maintenance work, repairs, and replacements, gardening, and painting.
Making decisions about dismissing or appointing an unsatisfactory or bad property manager misusing his delegation and running of the building powers as a factor and not maintaining the said property or faulty inspection reports.
In the absence of said manager deciding and arranging inspections for possible maintenance work and common area insurance arrangements.
If an owner already carried out an urgent repair because of non-compliance of the building manager, to approve it.
Overriding or amending previous bad scheme decisions like owners paying for maintenance which wasn’t theirs to pay.
Are there any decisions that the TMS can’t decide on?
All decisions that are not part of the maintenance or repair work agreement, demolition, alterations and improvements with alterations, above the usual maintenance contract or standards. For example, a window breaks and the owner says you can replace it and they will repay you when the job is done, but you go and replace it with double glazing mirrored effect windows which cost triple the normal price and does not fit with the flat basic look. That, unfortunately, stays your costs, and the TMS can do nothing about it.
How are the TMS scheme decisions made?
Any decisions made are binding and enforced through the court and is made by majority vote with minimum 51% votes in favor or against for that decision to be confirmed and legal
Voting works as follows:
One flat one vote even if more than one owner.
Each flat in the building will have a vote in any structural, repair, or maintenance issue.
If a flat is on common property and the decision for repairs or maintenance is on that common property then only those owners have a vote.
If more than one owner owns a flat and no agreement can be made on which way to vote, no one gets to vote unless one owns a bigger percentage then that one’s vote will count.
Everything that the What is Tenement Management decides through any vote is legally binding.
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