John Dayal

Review of Harbor Real Estate

Im going to share one of the worst real estate exp...

Im going to share one of the worst real estate experiences I had in Dubai.

Renting my own place im the city for the first time, I visited the offices to lock down the apartment I had viewed and loved.

Since I was new to renting and the HRE agent didn't inform me that I had to carry the money for the first cheque, I visited with all my documents. The HRE agent told me that he needed the money now to book the apartment. I told him that I didn't have the money with me now, but I can come back tomorrow with the money or transfer it directly to them.

In his words he said, there are tons of people that want this apartment, i need you to arrange the money now if you want this apartment, or else forget about it. Shocked by his arrogance but also stressed out about having to look after another apartment(bear in mind that I was younger and hence intimidated by the process), I rushed to my bank to withdraw the money.

The experience doesn't improve at all when I moved out... I've never been so stressed when moving out. Despite me spending my budget to refresh the wall paint, they refused to return my security deposit. I had to visit their offices and upon insisting that the apartment is in mint condition with no damages, they only returned a tiny percentage of the deposit back stating that you should consider yourself fortunate that you've received this much, most other tenants get close to nothing back.

The 5 star reviews are by fake profiles, that are reviewing companies across the world and aren't even based in Dubai. They've clearly hired an agency to generate 5 star reviews. I have attached an example of the fake profile that has given HRE 5 stars.

I had to put down this warning for anyone looking to deal with HRE