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Run your block yourselves, with confidence
Software and plain-English guides for leaseholder-run blocks of flats: right to manage (RTM) companies, residents' management companies and freehold companies. It turns the legal jobs into a dated to-do list, so volunteer directors know what to do next, and why.
- Your money never passes through us
- Two-step sign-in for directors
- Written for England and Wales
The problem
You took over the building. Now the paperwork is yours.
A box of papers, not a system
The handover is a box file and a memory stick: leases, old invoices, a fire risk assessment from years ago and no index. Nobody is sure what's missing.
A spreadsheet and a lot of goodwill
Who has paid, what is due and which flat pays what share all live in one person's spreadsheet, with formulas nobody else dares touch.
One volunteer doing everything
The deadlines live in someone's head. When they move, fall ill or simply run out of evenings, the block's memory goes with them.
And the law doesn't wait
- Major works costing any one leaseholder more than £250 need Section 20 consultation first. Skip it and you may recover only £250 from each leaseholder.
- Costs not billed or notified to leaseholders within 18 months can be lost for good.
- Bills to leaseholders (service-charge demands) must carry information the law prescribes, or they aren't payable yet.
New to Right to Manage?
What Right to Manage is, and what happens after
- 1
Leaseholders form a company
Qualifying leaseholders set up a Right to Manage (RTM) company and invite every other leaseholder to join.
- 2
The company claims the right
It serves the prescribed notices. If the claim succeeds, management passes to the company on the acquisition date. The freeholder still owns the building.
- 3
The directors run the block
From that day the company's directors, usually volunteer leaseholders, are responsible for the budget, service charges, insurance, repairs, fire safety and the company's own filings.
How it works
From the acquisition date to the yearly cycle
- Step 1 · Day one
Take over
- Set up the company, the building, the flats and who owns each
- Record each flat's share and check they add up to 100%
- Get a dated takeover checklist from your acquisition date
- Step 2 · The first 90 days
Get the basics right
- Chase the old manager for information, funds and records
- Put insurance, fire safety and the bank account in order
- Tell leaseholders where to pay and where to send notices
- Step 3 · Every year
Run the yearly cycle
- Budget, bill leaseholders and keep the accounts straight
- Keep safety checks and insurance up to date
- Hold the AGM and keep the company's filings on time
A look inside
Built like the tool you wish you'd inherited
Leases
At launchEvery lease term, with its source
Each flat's lease is broken down into the terms that matter, with the clause and page each one comes from. A differences check shows where flats' leases don't match, before it costs you an argument.
Money
Coming later“Why is my charge this much?”
Leaseholders see exactly how their bill was worked out: each budget heading, their share under the lease, and the clause behind it. The parts always add up to the penny.
Compliance & safety
Coming laterSafety checks you can see at a glance
Fire risk assessment, electrical tests, insurance and licences in one register, each with its date and a plain status. Nothing quietly lapses.
Calendar
At launchEvery deadline in one calendar
Statutory deadlines, takeover tasks and meetings in one place, with a private feed that puts them in your phone's calendar.
Features
Organised around the jobs you actually do
Take over
Get set up from the acquisition date, with every deadline in front of you.
- Set up your company, building and flatsAt launch
- Takeover checklistAt launch
- A to-do list, not a dashboardAt launch
- Document vaultAt launch
- Import from a spreadsheetComing later
Money
Budgets, bills to leaseholders and the bank, done the way the law expects.
- BudgetsComing later
- Bills to leaseholders (service-charge demands)Coming later
- “Why is my charge this much?”Coming later
- Bank statement importComing later
- Arrears, step by stepComing later
- Year-end pack for your accountantComing later
Compliance & safety
Fire safety, insurance and checks, with reminders before anything lapses.
- Compliance registerComing later
- Deadline calendar with a private feedAt launch
- Reminders before things fall dueComing later
- Buildings insuranceComing later
Company & meetings
Run the company properly: directors, members, notices and a record of every decision.
- Two-step sign-in for directorsAt launch
- The right access for each roleAt launch
- Tamper-evident audit trailAt launch
- Notices served the valid wayAt launch
- AGMs and members' meetingsComing later
- Resolutions and votesComing later
- Companies House deadlinesComing later
Repairs
From a reported leak to major works, with the lease saying who pays.
- Report a repairComing later
- Who's responsible?Coming later
- Major works and Section 20Coming later
Residents
Everyone sees what's theirs: their flat, their lease, their actions.
- Leaseholder directoryAt launch
- Lease library with sourcesAt launch
- NoticeboardComing later
- Statements for every leaseholderComing later
Security and trust
Other people's homes and money deserve care
You're trusted by your neighbours. We built RunYourBlock so that trust is easy to keep.
Your money never passes through us
Leaseholders pay your company's own bank account. We never hold, move or take a cut of service charges.
Two-step sign-in for directors
Directors sign in with an emailed link and a code from an authenticator app. No passwords to leak.
A record of every change
Every change is logged with who made it and when, in a tamper-evident chain: useful at the AGM, essential in a dispute.
Your data stays yours
Customer data will be held on UK servers, under UK GDPR. Not paying never blocks access to your records or a full export.
Pricing
Free until your first bill to leaseholders
Free plan
£0
No time limit, until your block issues its first service-charge demand.
Then, from
£19/month + VAT
up to 6 flats; larger blocks pay a little more.
Founding members: £19 a month, locked for 2 years
For the first 50 blocks, any size up to 30 flats. Joining the list is free.
See full pricingWhy we built it
Built by someone doing the job
RunYourBlock is being built by Phil, a leaseholder and director of his own block's RTM company. He and his neighbours took over their building using free official guidance and the prescribed forms.
Then came the question nobody had answered: now what? A lease to decode, deadlines to keep and other people's money to account for, all on volunteers' evenings. Phil is a software developer, so he's building the tool they needed, and his own block will be the first to run on it.
Phil, founder
Read the storyQuestions
Frequently asked questions
Is RunYourBlock available now?
Not yet. It's in development. Our guides and free tools are available now, and founding members can reserve a place at a fixed price. Features marked “At launch” are built and being tested now; features marked “Coming later” are planned, and we update the labels as they ship.
Who is it for?
Leaseholder-run blocks in England and Wales: right to manage (RTM) companies, residents' management companies and companies that own their freehold. It's not built for managing agents.
What is Right to Manage?
Right to Manage (RTM) is a legal right that lets leaseholders of flats take over the management of their building through a company they set up, without buying the freehold and without having to prove the landlord did anything wrong. From the acquisition date, the RTM company's directors, usually volunteer leaseholders, are responsible for things like the budget, service charges, insurance, repairs and fire safety.
Do we need software to run our block?
No. Plenty of blocks start with a spreadsheet and a shared folder. RunYourBlock is for directors who would rather not carry the lease, the deadlines and the legal rules in their heads, and who want records the next volunteer can pick up.
Does our money go through RunYourBlock?
No. Leaseholders pay your company's own bank account. We never hold, move or touch your block's money, and our fee is billed to your company separately.
What does it cost?
Nothing until your block issues its first service-charge demand. Then £19, £29 or £45 a month + VAT, depending on the number of flats; for 31 flats or more, contact us. The first 50 blocks lock in £19 a month + VAT for 2 years.
Is this legal advice?
No. RunYourBlock is software and plain-English information, not legal advice. Our guides link to the law they are based on. For free, independent advice on leasehold law in England and Wales, contact LEASE (the Leasehold Advisory Service).
Can we leave and take our records with us?
Yes. Not paying never blocks access to your records or a full export of your data, and you can download everything if you leave.
Start reading
- GuideYour first 90 days running the blockA checklist for new directors after any takeover (RTM, freehold, developer handover or leaving an agent): insurance, bank, records, safety, first bill.
- GuideWhat is the right to manage (RTM)?The right to manage lets leaseholders of flats take over running their building from the landlord through an RTM company. What it covers, and what not.