4 years ago
By far the worst rental experience I've ever had. ...
By far the worst rental experience I've ever had. The day we moved in we had rat droppings, mould on blinds, in built in wardrobes and the bathroom, hundreds of dead bugs in the light fittings (feel free to contact me for photos), and the place had an infestation of cockroaches like I'd never seen. I had to go over the property managers head to talk to someone more senior before anything was done. I didn't have a remote for the automatic garage door for a full two months (I returned a defective remote to them in the first week of our lease), the property manager kept banging on how he thought the neighbours had it by mistake, but I spoke to the neighbours on several occasions and they said that they'd explained to him many times that the remote they had was for their garage and worked fine. It's 2 hour parking out the front of our house so this proved problematic. My property manager looked me square in the eye and said that a window that would not close and had the screen sticky taped in place was not a security issue. We had repeated issues with sewerage bubbling at the front door due to a tree root growing into the pipe, and whilst later on during our time there they became more prompt in sending someone out to unblock it, it took several days and often the better part of a week early on before they started taking it more seriously, and they refused to implement a more permanent solution like replace the pipe. We reported a rat in the roof early on in the lease, it was still there when we left and I have video of it eating a hole in the kitchen ceiling. After leaving we received a letter from the department of fair trading dated the 6th of September saying that we would have $250 deducted from our bond, however we didn't move out until the 7th of September (we successfully got our entire bond back in the end). Also after leaving they charged us a full fortnights rent and they refused to reverse it, I was advised to wait until the funds bounced then they'd return to my account, as my account was overdrawn leaving us no cash to pay bills and potentially adversely affecting my credit rating (we're aiming to buy a house soon so this simply will not do). We had to survive off credit cards until my bank reversed it at my request. I don't know if they're malicious or incompetent but the outcome for us was the same, a bad experience. If you already rent through them do not exercise patience, you'll be ignored, we tried that for the first few weeks and it got us nowhere. CC everything to the senior property manager, (truth be told the only shining light in this whole experience was the professionalism and courtesy Yvette showed us, the 3 property managers we had to deal with over our stay there were useless and I'm surprised they've still got jobs). We are glad we have no more dealings with them and never will again.