ABSTRACT
Most property managers are perfectly capable of conducting the various procedures and proceedings. If legal advice and assistance is needed from time to time during the course of a case, then by all means it should be obtained, but where matters can be progressed "in house" the opportunity should be grasped. Training opportunities abound for property managers, and this is especially apparent with the possibility of achieving specific professional qualifications and accreditation with the Institute of Residential Property Management. There is a very wide range of covenants in leases. Restrictions on forfeiture for service charges were a primary target of the Housing Act 1996. Although the fire of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 was more widespread, there were still more restraints on service charge cases. At the risk of sounding trite, it does no harm to remember that only covenants which have been broken need to be enforced.
