Thread: Holiday Park - Ground Rent

Not sure if anyone will be able to help me but its worth a shot.

I own two holiday chalets on a holiday park site, and have done since 2006, they have increased the rent and are refusing to give me a Breakdown of the ground rent and service charges. I have been to LVT and they have said because it is a holiday chalet they are unable to help. I was under the impression that all the time a fee was under dispute payments could not be requested further?! yet i have now received further letters demanding ground rent and a threat of county court.

Does anyone know who has jurisdiction over holiday homes or where i can obtain advice?

i work on a park, but not chalets. all i can suggest is the british holidays and home parks association (bhhpa), national association of caravan owners (naco) or trading standards. i dont know the answer to your problem though, good luck

Last August my sister decided to buy a holiday caravan home, before she did I checked out this site and others.

I tried in vain to warn her not to bother but she did. She paid a total of £14000 for a 6 birth caravan. However in January she decided she did not want to keep it and asked the site management if he would buy it back (as he sold it to her).

He advised her that due to the recession he could offer her £1400.

I fail to understand how the recession is far worse now than in August?

So in 5 months she lost about 90%!

When she sought advice from legal sources she was told that all the information is in the small print and totally legal although unfair!

Please do not buy these holiday homes without having the documents SCRUTENISED by a solicitor and having all the small print explained to you.

My sister has learnt her lesson though expensive and rather than give the pleasure to the site management of a cheap bargain (which I am sure they would re-sell at £14000 again), she has sold it at great reduced cost but far higher than what was offered!

Whats actually in it for the buyer of these holiday carvans/chalets? You pay ground rent, pay for the upkeep of the caravan, the gas ect ect. The holiday park takes all money for bookings ect and all the buyer gets is to occasionally get a free stay, (in a holiday park in the uk which prob only cost a few hundred a week tops anyway) and to eventually own the caravan, which by then will be old and rotting anyway. I dont understand what attracted people to do this in the first place????

Well said, and they are stuck in the same place,puzzling.