P L A Rents

[alruss]

Our club has just been presented with a 600% rent rise for moorings. Has anyone else had simmilar demands.

 

[byron]

Which club? Also what does 600% represent, I mean if you are paying a ridiculously low rent then welcome to the real world, if however you already pay market rate then you got reason to bitch.

 

[Andrew_Fanner]

Problem with the idea of a rise in the rent is that it may have been put up without any consideration as to what the place might otherwise get. Your club land may be very important/valuable to you, but fairly worthless to anyone else. But some beancounter with a brief to maximise asset income (and who knows, a percentage...) might not have researched that bit. "Its paid for, so its worth something, so maximise that something".

 

[kengill]

So go and get some cheaper elsewhere. If you want to stay there's a price to pay. These civil cervantes typos have to justify their salaries somehow

 

[boatone]

So which club is it and where are the moorings?

 

[alruss]

The club is the Hurlingham yacht club in Putney. The rent for our pontoon, which we installed, is to go up by 600%. The pontoon is only three years old so is not an old lease unrealistically cheap at present. What made them decide on 600%? why not 1000% or 200% there is no rime or reason to it. Perhaps the new board member, an accountant, that has turned arround several companies in the past
feels 600% is required to pay extra goveners dividends.

 

[boatone]

OK....so crass question, what is the new rent per year?

More interesting question - do you welcome visitors and could a 36 foot cruiser overnight?