Inspection Flashcards
What should you do if there are squatters?
Call police
Notify Client
What can you call the photographic evidence schedule?
Schedule of condition
What are the two ways that dilapidation can be paid for?
Tenant can do works
Tenant can pay the landlord
- breach + loss + evidence = recovery
What would have been the more formal approach to take to resolve dilapidations dispute at York?
- Check the lease terms to understand the repairing liabilities of each party
- Obtain the schedule of condition
- Assess whether Licence for Alteration was in place
Issued a ‘Final’ Schedule (as opposed to Interim or Terminal)
- outlined their repairing obligations
- stated how they could remedy the breach (remove partitioning)
- Negotiate on a Without Prejudice basis
- If agreement not reached notified of ADR mechanism to resolve issue
Gave them certain amount of days to remove the partitioning
What does a tenant have to do to amend the unit structurally? And what does obtaining this type of consent achieve?
Licence to alteration
- Protects parties in rent review
- reduces likelihood of dilapidatipns at the end of the lease
Who creates the office specifications?
British council for Offices
What is the most flexible air conditioning system?
VAV
What were you looking for at Vanston Place?
MARKETABILITY
Arrived at destination having done a risk assessment
Assessed availability on the high street updating my Goad
Arrived at property and inspected from the roof downwards looking for defects (e.g. roof tile slippage, broken windows, burst pipes on exterior)
I then entered the property
Vanston Place - What were you looking for inside the property?
Because it was an A3 I was looking for potential damage from kitchen equipment
Assessed damage from grease traps
I subsequently found evidence that the wall above the stove had been damaged and reported this to my client
What was your advice at Balham High Road?
Consulted a building surveyor
- on whether the floor to ceiling height could be increased
Advised my client that;
- by undertaking works
- they would be likely to improve the rental offer
- by increasing the total floor plate of her unit
Signs of deleterious materials?
Brown staining
What did you do when you discovered the fire at Vanston Place?
- Took photographs
- Notified my client and the building manager
- Advised they obtain a specialist repot
- Issued fire report when remarketing
Purpose of dilapidations arrangements?
To bring the unit back up to its condition at the start of the lease
- assuming there is a repairing liability
What guidance did you take when considering the dilapidations claim?
RICS GN on Dilapidations (2016)
What are the principles of RICS GN on Dilapidations (2016)?
Aims to reduce claims between Landlords and Tenants at lease expiry
- Keep to timescales
- Act reasonably in resolving issues
- Surveyor is an advisor prior to ‘litigation’ and then an ‘expert witness’ in litigation
