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A Mummy Scorned…
Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by darnonymous.
Categories: Uncategorized.
My little dude is still sick. The poor little thing was up all night with a fever, we are back to the Doc today.
I lay the blame for this FULLY on our dumbass Real Estate agent! I shouldn’t have had to drag my poor little guy back & forth in this shitty weather to sort out crap with them!
They never did get back to me on Monday as promised (big surprise!). He called yesterday, & told me there was no way we were getting any money back from them. Their reasoning was that;
a) We had signed the lease based on the condition it was in, &
b) If we were not happy with the condition of the place we should have notified them right away so they could have done something, not gone ahead & organized cleaners ourselves.
Ok, so;
a) It says right there in our lease that upon signing the lease, ‘the landlord agrees to make sure the premises are reasonably clean & fit to live in’. The agent argued that 1 persons idea of ‘reasonably clean’ differs from the next persons. I asked him ‘based on the photos I showed you, would you live in that?’. His answer? ‘No’. &
b) Considering we signed the lease on Saturday & saw that the place was DISGUSTING, they are closed on Sunday, had a sick baby on Monday, went to the apartment on Tuesday to take photos & fill out the condition report (& pull down the filthy mouldy curtains), went to the Agent on Wednesday but of course nobody was able to see me & I had to make an appointment for Friday. Considering we were s’posed to be moving in on the Saturday my priority was to have a clean place for my baby, so I had to organize the cleaners for Friday! So realistically, this WAS letting them know straight away!
Also, if I went by their ‘I’ll get back to you on Monday, but really I won’t bother to call ‘til Wednesday ‘ standard, we’d still be waiting to hear back from them about organizing the place to be cleaned!
Ok, so I accept that they aren’t going to give us any money back. It just means I don’t have to waste any time cleaning the place when we leave (it still won’t be left in as shitty a condition as it was though, we just don’t generally live like PIGS)! Then the rest of the conversation went like this;
Me: So about the balcony door which you didn’t give us a key for?
Agent: Yeah I’ll have to track it down.
Me: Soooo, can I expect to hear back from you soon?
Agent: Well we don’t have it here so I’ll have to find out.
Me: Soooo, should I expect to hear from you before the weekend?
Agent: Well I’ll do my best but I can’t make any guarantees ok?! See ya later…
Me: And about all the leaking taps? (Every tap in the place is pouring water!)
Agent: Yep.
Me: So is that going to be fixed soon?
Agent: You have to fill out the formal repair enquiry form & bring it in.
Me: Right.
Agent: See ya… hung up!
If anyone out there in the land of the www is looking to aquire some Real Estate, DO NOT use;
PETER SHIPWAY REALTY of WEST RYDE
(I’m not sure what the legalities of posting this are, perhaps it comes under slander? If I could get myself into trouble for posting this please tell me so I can remove it!! But until then hopefully this will drum up some bad publicity for them! & of course please pass on this info to anyone you know looking to get into the Real Estate market! Aaah, the beauty of the www!)
Have a nice day y’all!
2 comments.
I think you should write them a letter of complaint - pretty much what you’ve written in this blog post - and post it to them (minus the part slamming their real estate on the WWW (lol)) just so you have it in writing that you werent happy with their CRAPPY service!
I hope Kaia is okay?! Give him some cuddles from us!
Xx
Thats unbelievable!! I agree with Jess - or is there some higher authority you can contact about it, because if their standards of a ‘clean and fit premises’ are shown in your photos, then thats disgusting!! And you have a sick bubba too! Hope he gets better soon and hope you can start to relax in your new ‘home’!! Poor things!!