Rent and Service Charge Enquiry Case Management
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What is Rent and Service Charge Enquiry Case Management?
A Rent and Service Charge Enquiry is any resident or leaseholder question about what they pay — from a routine query about a rent statement through to a formal Section 21 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 request for a summary of relevant costs, a Section 22 inspection request, a challenge to a variable service charge, or a question about a Section 20 consultation. The legal framework is dense: the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 (LTA 1985) governs service charge transparency, the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 sets demand requirements, and the Regulator of Social Housing’s Transparency, Influence and Accountability Standard expects landlords to give residents clear, accurate, timely information about charges. The First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) decides disputes when residents and landlords cannot agree.
The operational challenge: an enquiry can move from a five-minute statement query into a full Section 21 request that needs the audited service charge accounts, supplier invoices, apportionment methodology and consultation history within a month. Without one shared record linking the enquiry to the rent account, the service charge ledger and any open Section 20 consultation, the response is inconsistent, the deadline is missed, and the case escalates needlessly to the tribunal. A single record holding the query, the answer, the evidence and the resident communication keeps cases from escalating and gives the regulator the audit trail it expects.
Rent and Service Charge Enquiry — End-to-End Workflow
- Logged — rent or service charge enquiry captured from any channel into one Rent and Service Charge Enquiry case in the Propsys360 Case Management module on Microsoft Dynamics 365.
- Triaged — routine statement query, Section 21 LTA 1985 request, Section 22 inspection request, service charge challenge, Section 20 consultation question, or rent setting / formula query; routed with the right statutory clock.
- Linked — joined automatically to the resident’s Tenancy, Rent Account, Service Charge ledger, any open Section 20 consultation and any prior Disrepair / Repairs casework that may affect a charge dispute.
- Investigation — relevant costs, apportionment methodology, supplier invoices and audited accounts attached to the case from the finance system, not retyped.
- Statutory response — Section 21 LTA 1985 summary issued within one month; Section 22 inspection arranged within the statutory timescale; rent statement reissued; Section 20 question answered.
- Resident communication — every update logged on the case in time order; preferred channel honoured; tone consistent across enquiries.
- Tribunal preparation (if escalated) — full bundle exports in one click in the format the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) expects; nothing rebuilt from notes.
- Closed — outcome recorded; learning fed into the next year’s service charge budget and consultation; resident satisfaction captured.
Rent and Service Charge Enquiry Case Management in Propsys360
- One record, one version of the truth — every Rent and Service Charge Enquiry lives in a single record in the Propsys360 Case Management module on Microsoft Dynamics 365, replacing finance-team email folders, leasehold-officer spreadsheets and the contact centre’s call notes.
- Linked across Propsys360 — joined automatically to the Tenancy, Rent Account, Service Charge ledger, Section 20 Consultation, Disrepair and Complaints records.
- Section 21 LTA 1985 workflow — one-month statutory clock built in; summary of relevant costs generated from the live service charge ledger, not retyped.
- Section 22 LTA 1985 inspection — appointment booked from the case; resident, supplier and accountant attendances logged.
- Section 20 consultation linkage — questions about an ongoing consultation answered with the consultation notice, schedule of works and tenders’ summary already attached.
- Demand-validity check — Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 demand requirements (statutory information, summary of rights and obligations) verified before any demand challenge response.
- First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) export — full bundle ready in one click in the format the tribunal expects, with no manual reassembly.
- Reporting — enquiry volume by category, Section 21 turnaround time, escalations to tribunal and outcomes; board and regulator transparency returns from live case data.
Teams Helped by Rent and Service Charge Enquiry Case Management
Contact Centre / Customer Service Advisor — sees the rent account, service charge ledger and any open consultation on one screen; resolves more queries at first contact and never asks the resident to ring back tomorrow.
Leasehold Officer / Service Charge Officer — handles a Section 21 LTA 1985 request with the relevant costs, apportionment methodology and audited accounts already attached; one-month statutory clock met without overtime.
Income Officer — answers a rent statement query with the full account, payment history and any housing-element data on one screen.
Finance / Service Charge Accountant — picks up technical queries with supplier invoices and apportionment methodology already on the case; nothing chased by email.
Legal Services / Tribunal Coordinator — exports the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) bundle in one click in the order the tribunal expects.
Director of Customer Services / Head of Leasehold — sees enquiry trends, statutory turnaround compliance and tribunal outcomes on one dashboard, with Transparency, Influence and Accountability Standard evidencing always to hand.
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