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service charge bills

Posted by gary on August 8, 2007, 9:34 pm

i have still not received my service charge bill for 2nd half of 2007 - when is this due to be sent out?
also when can i expect the additional service charge fee payment request?

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Posted by DavidL on August 8, 2007, 11:39 pm, in reply to "service charge bills"

Should have had both early July. You may need to contact R&R (good luck!)

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Posted by AndyS on August 9, 2007, 7:06 am, in reply to "Re: service charge bills"

Bills went out in July. Drop Elaine a line at Rendall and Rittner. I have notified her that you haven't received it.

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Posted by StefanN on August 10, 2007, 9:52 am, in reply to "service charge bills"

I received the service charge bill in July and sent a letter with a cheque beginning of last week. But the money had not been taken from my bank account yet. I also contacted RR to confirm the receipt of the letter.

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Posted by Mike on August 11, 2007, 8:52 am, in reply to "Re: service charge bills"

I’d encourage people to use the bank transfer option to pay the service charge. That way, you can control when the money goes out of your bank account. You have no worries about letters/cheques being lost in the post. You also have the electronic audit trail as evidence that you paid the service charge on time, in the event of a dispute.

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Posted by StefanN on August 12, 2007, 5:56 pm, in reply to "Re: service charge bills"

R&R informed me that they received the cheque and the account is clear.
Since more then 10 years I pay the SC by cheque and I never had any problems.
Mike, some people don't want the "electronic audit trail" and prefer the old fashioned way

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Posted by Mike on August 12, 2007, 6:27 pm, in reply to "Re: service charge bills"

That’s fair enough, although manual handling of cheques is a relatively expensive process if you consider all of the cheques that flow through the banking system. I think we will see more and more encouragement to dispense with paper cheques in the coming years. My bank is already offering to plant a tree on my behalf if I convert my account to a ‘green’ account and do without a cheque book.

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Posted by StefanN on August 14, 2007, 7:10 pm, in reply to "Re: service charge bills"

My bank is Bank of Scotland. They offer me Online Banking but PIN/TAN or even iTAN is unknown to them. Instead they query questions like "What is your fathers name?" to confirm the transaction.
Online banking is completely useless whet it gets to international transfers. If you try to transfer money abroad it always offers you a form asking for sort code and account number. There is no way to state an IBAN/BIC which is the standard in europe now. If I try to transfer money from the UK to europe I can only dust off my good old cheque book and send a cheque to the receiving bank.
I think it is up to the banks to improve their security policies and international standards before I can get rid of my cheque book.

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Off topic: EU payments

Posted by Fred on August 22, 2007, 3:11 pm, in reply to "Re: service charge bills"

Some years ago I booked holiday accommodation in Austria. The owner asked me to transfer the payment to his account and gave me his IBAN number.
It took me 3 visits to 2 bank branches, as well as another phone call, to get someone at my bank to agree to take the considerable leap of faith required to do something as outlandish as sending some money abroad.
And even then they didn't know what that IBA-whatsit-thingy was; only my assurance that the relaying bank that would eventually send the money across the channel would know what to do with it persuaded them; and the agreement that I would bear any charges if it went wrong.

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Posted by Nigel on August 10, 2007, 11:51 am, in reply to "service charge bills"

No, I haven't received mine yet, either.

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Posted by Mike on August 11, 2007, 9:07 am, in reply to "Re: service charge bills"

I assume that all of the service charge demands go out at the same time. Perhaps one of the directors could take on the task of posting a notification message here, when the service charge demands are sent out. That way, everyone would know when to expect them and could act accordingly, if they don’t arrive.
It might avoid the cost of some unwarranted solicitors’ charges for late payers who are unaware that they are late payers.

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Posted by gareth Frith (BWFL Director) on August 12, 2007, 8:09 pm, in reply to "Re: service charge bills"

Service Charges are due as per your lease on 1 January and 1 July. Bills normally go out very early Jan or early July so if you haven´t received one by the end of the respective months you should contact Rendall and Rittner.
Contact details are on the web site.

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