Things are a bit shambolic on this website right now, because I’m scrambling around trying to go on holiday, and every government organisation known to man has decided to make this week the one in which they will write to me giving me 2 weeks to reply – reasonable enough when you aren’t going on holiday for 2 weeks …………
I have a great bundle of blogs half written, all about the secrets of Housing Benefit, Deposit Schemes, Lawyers who don’t understand the Law, and Property Blogging, but they all need careful consideration, so instead I’ve decided to plagiarise. Who better to plagiarise from than new star on the Internet Jocelyn King. Earlier this year Jo appeared on the internet, and immediately registered in my conciousness as a woman who had been there and done that. If you stalk her (like I have) you will see the fresh aroma of pure experience, she doesn’t talk the marketing talk, she doesn’t walk the selling walk. She is just plain and simply a woman who makes money out of being an ethical property developer and landlord. Personally I follow every move Jo makes on the internet (aka stalking) & today I propose to steal her blog, but improve it by making it generalised.
Insert Your Variable in the field { Bank}
Dear Mr Chairman of { Bank}
I am in receipt of my voting papers and Summary Financial Statement for the year ended 4 April 2010 and despite being an extremely busy person I feel that I can not just ‘cast my vote’ without making comment on the Remuneration of the Directors.
I have studied the detail provided and it is clear from the levels of remuneration for 2009 and 2010 that there has been no acknowledgement by the Directors of the financial difficulties that the country and the banking sector are in. Whilst the Society may have contractual obligations that it is committed to from previous years when times were better, it is completely within your powers to have acted by 2010 on what was clearly a serious problem emerging in early 2008.
Whilst the Society may be one of the strongest in the sector there really is no justifiable reason why anyone on our very small and fragile planet should be worth more than £150,000 per annum remuneration. The situation is made even more distasteful and inappropriate as some of the directors are working for other companies and presumably receiving remuneration from these positions too. How can anyone give 100% to their position if they are working for other organisations too?
It is important that { Bank} Directors wake up to the real world like the rest of us have had to and accept that things are changing. I feel that I have no choice but to vote to re-elect the Board of Directors as what is the alternative? However, morally I feel it is my duty as a member to point out that I am not at all happy with the levels of remuneration or with the Directors apparent lack of acknowledgement that remuneration MUST be reduced drastically to reflect the actual work that any one person, no matter how skilled, can actually contribute.
Yours sincerely
Now if you want to see the original go to JoKing on Property, in spite of the name this is one serious babe.
Jo King










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As ever, thanks for taking the time to educate us!
Thanks David, It’s gratifying to know it’s useful.
Rich
This is such a great resource that you are providing and you give it away for free. I enjoy seeing websites that understand the value of providing a prime resource for free. I truly loved reading your post. Thanks!
You are very welcome SS. There could be a low-cost ebook in the offing eventually, with all the blogs properly collated and some extra stuff too.
BW,
Rich.
Richard.
I stumbled on your blog whilst researching other’s experiences of Roofkrete. The Company is now branded as Krete Ltd – Roofkrete Ltd was dissolved in 2009 leaving those who’d installed the product on the strength of their guarantee without any recourse in the event of problens – more frequent than the company likes to let on in my experience.
Hello,
Seems that Roofkrete was acquired because the new owner(s) were mightily impressed with the product. Especially suited to green roofs, which is the direction in which they want to expand:
“Krete Sustain Systems Ltd
The Company has been relaunched as Krete Sustain Systems ltd (Incorporating RoofKrete Waterproofing Ltd.) and to progress more quickly in the development of Green Roofs the company has partnered with Blackdown Horticultural Consultants Limited who are based in the south west of England and offer a national service … ”
http://www.krete.co.uk/who-are-we
PS: Yours is a great, great website. Simple and direct. Keep it up.
James, thanks for the feedback but I haven’t encountered any of these problems and I’ve used the product on my own properties and been very pleased with it. I did a quick Google search using [roofkrete problems] as the search terms and nothing significant came up, although curiously this blog was at number 4!
Tatty, thanks for the compliment.
BW,
Rich
Hi Richard.
Correct – I suspect mainly because they’re very hot on threatening legal action against anyone who says anything which isn’t positive. The next few months should see this reversed though as I personally know of at least 3 different people who’ve incurred serious property damage as a result of the product failing – and we’ll no doubt see these cases ending up in court.