Very poor experience with this property management company who is supposed to facilitate the rental experience. Communications was easy (they do pick up the phone and answer emails relatively fast), however don't expect to solve any problems with your property manager. Multiple times I've flagged a broken wardrobe that has not been repaired for 6 months. Take extra care when moving into your room and take as many photo as possible to document the condition of the property, as they tried to charge me for a stained carpet and blinds that were already damaged when I moved in. Would not recommend: charging above market rate for an overall poor experience.
Lived in their new building in Camden i.e. 140 Camden Street for 10 months and had the worst letting experience ever! The flat itself was nice but I want to speak about all the other problems that came with it. Property manager Gareth is by far the most incompetent human I have ever come across. He's not one bit empathetic, he doesn't try to understand tenants problems, would give you copy paste ChatGPT responses all the freakin time. You'll have to follow up on your email to remind him to give you a more humanly reply. Would take weeks to get even the smallest problems fixed - that too if you're lucky. He doesn't know how to sync your issues to the relevant departments internally, again, he's incredibly incompetent. This person managing the building lives in a different country far from the ground reality of what's going on in the building. For the 10 months that I lived there, the bin room downstairs got broken into dozens of times by violent homeless people and they would stay there for days by locking the doors from inside. Yes, DOZENS OF TIMES. During my stay here, I've heard of countless parcels(including 3 of my own) being stolen from the building. All these problems and many more were never resolved during the 10 months that I stayed there. If you are paying anywhere between £1.5k-2k FOR ONE ROOM in this building, you should at least get a physical concierge especially in an area like Camden which is literally the second most dangerous borough in London, and having to worry about your and your belongings' safety on a day to basis is just ridiculous.
Worst shared living experience I have ever had. There was no consideration on who I was paired up to live with and when I begged and pleaded to be removed from an extremely horrible situation, I received little to no help and had to suffer through the rest of my tenancy agreement. Would not recommend.
I would not recommend using London Shared; I unfortunately had a horrible experience and here’s why: 1. Bathroom situation: From the commencement of my rental contract there was an issue with the basement bathroom. Specific emphasis will be placed on the shower here. The shower basin would fill up with water after only +/- 30 seconds of water running meaning you couldn’t take a proper shower. Further to this, as the water took long to sink, the floor of the shower filled up with dirt and grime and was disgusting. We raised multiple requests for this to be fixed continuously for about 9 months but there were continuous excuses for this not happening. 2. Fast forward these 9 months, the works eventually started. We were instructed not to use bathroom during this time. (This was the only shower that was available to me in the house as the rest were en-suites). However only a part of the job was done and this left me without a shower for 3 months. They made ‘arrangements’ for me to use one of the other bathrooms in the house. This was one of the en-suites which came with the following complications: 2.1 I had to walk through peoples rooms to get to it. While my roommates were very accommodating; this was an invasion of their privacy and resulted in me having to plan when I used the bathroom. (For example, when I worked late and they were sleeping, I had to go to bed without showering). 2.2 The bathroom didn’t have a shower at all. It was a bath that was very cramped (loft room) and only had a shower handle with a very light trickle of water. 3. I requested reduction on my rent to account for this lack of a basic amenity and they didn’t even consider it. 4. Towards the end of my rental contract they then increased my rent by a substantial amount. While this is a normal occurrence for the end of the rental contract, I requested that my rent didn’t increase until the situation was sorted. Again, they didn’t budge. 5. After the above, I made the decision to move out. They started showing my room to people. When I mentioned the bathroom situation to the two agents showing potential new tenants around the property; they had no idea there was no shower facility available. Either they were just trying to save face or they did not know about it, showing how little care was being put into this service request. 6. Lastly, and the absolute icing / cherry on the cake: 3 days before I moved out, they started the works to fix the bathroom. An absolute joke and one final slap in the face. Clearly they couldn’t fill the room and as they say, money talks. There were other minor issues that occurred during the year as well, but I thought I would place emphasis on the main one. I have a trail of continuous follow ups using their maintenance site and via email, so this can 100% be verified. I am not a big fan of raising bad reviews. However, my treatment by London Shared was so absurd and ridiculous that I felt I had to write this as a warning to anyone considering renting with them. I was engaged in a contract with them and they came very short in the deliverance of their end of the contract. Very disappointing!
I moved into a property expecting a friendly mix of roommates as described in the listing—3 girls and 2 boys, all non-smoking professionals. However, the reality was starkly different. The house was dirty, inhabited solely by guys, and littered with cigarette butts on the patio, despite being advertised as non-smoking. The stench of leaking drainage permeated from the basement, and when I raised concerns to London Shared, they brushed it off and suggested I involve the police with my new housemates, whom I barely knew. It's disheartening how little they cared about the living conditions they placed us in as long as we were under contract. The problems didn't end there. The ceiling leaked, ruining my clothing collection and leaving me with damp belongings. London Shared's staff proved unhelpful, offering no solutions and only adding to the issues. They even had the audacity to blame other tenants and charge us for the problems. I would give this experience 0 stars if possible. While I don't typically write reviews, this situation demanded attention. London Shared needs a reality check, and prospective tenants deserve to know the truth about the monstrosity of this place. Their insistence on receiving reviews within the first week is suspect; they know most people won't bother to revise them. My attempts to address these issues were met with superficial listening, with no real effort to resolve them.
I moved into a property expecting a friendly mix of roommates as described in the listing—3 girls and 2 boys, all non-smoking professionals. However, the reality was starkly different. The house was dirty, inhabited solely by guys, and littered with cigarette butts on the patio, despite being advertised as non-smoking. The stench of leaking drainage permeated from the basement, and when I raised concerns to London Shared, they brushed it off and suggested I involve the police with my new housemates, whom I barely knew. It's disheartening how little they cared about the living conditions they placed us in as long as we were under contract. The problems didn't end there. The ceiling leaked, ruining my clothing collection and leaving me with damp belongings. London Shared's staff proved unhelpful, offering no solutions and only adding to the issues. They even had the audacity to blame other tenants and charge us for the problems. I would give this experience 0 stars if possible. While I don't typically write reviews, this situation demanded attention. London Shared needs a reality check, and prospective tenants deserve to know the truth about the monstrosity of this place. Their insistence on receiving reviews within the first week is suspect; they know most people won't bother to revise them. My attempts to address these issues were met with superficial listening, with no real effort to resolve them.
I would not recommend using London Shared; I unfortunately had a horrible experience and here’s why: 1. Bathroom situation: From the commencement of my rental contract there was an issue with the basement bathroom. Specific emphasis will be placed on the shower here. The shower basin would fill up with water after only +/- 30 seconds of water running meaning you couldn’t take a proper shower. Further to this, as the water took long to sink, the floor of the shower filled up with dirt and grime and was disgusting. We raised multiple requests for this to be fixed continuously for about 9 months but there were continuous excuses for this not happening. 2. Fast forward these 9 months, the works eventually started. We were instructed not to use bathroom during this time. (This was the only shower that was available to me in the house as the rest were en-suites). However only a part of the job was done and this left me without a shower for 3 months. They made ‘arrangements’ for me to use one of the other bathrooms in the house. This was one of the en-suites which came with the following complications: 2.1 I had to walk through peoples rooms to get to it. While my roommates were very accommodating; this was an invasion of their privacy and resulted in me having to plan when I used the bathroom. (For example, when I worked late and they were sleeping, I had to go to bed without showering). 2.2 The bathroom didn’t have a shower at all. It was a bath that was very cramped (loft room) and only had a shower handle with a very light trickle of water. 3. I requested reduction on my rent to account for this lack of a basic amenity and they didn’t even consider it. 4. Towards the end of my rental contract they then increased my rent by a substantial amount. While this is a normal occurrence for the end of the rental contract, I requested that my rent didn’t increase until the situation was sorted. Again, they didn’t budge. 5. After the above, I made the decision to move out. They started showing my room to people. When I mentioned the bathroom situation to the two agents showing potential new tenants around the property; they had no idea there was no shower facility available. Either they were just trying to save face or they did not know about it, showing how little care was being put into this service request. 6. Lastly, and the absolute icing / cherry on the cake: 3 days before I moved out, they started the works to fix the bathroom. An absolute joke and one final slap in the face. Clearly they couldn’t fill the room and as they say, money talks. There were other minor issues that occurred during the year as well, but I thought I would place emphasis on the main one. I have a trail of continuous follow ups using their maintenance site and via email, so this can 100% be verified. I am not a big fan of raising bad reviews. However, my treatment by London Shared was so absurd and ridiculous that I felt I had to write this as a warning to anyone considering renting with them. I was engaged in a contract with them and they came very short in the deliverance of their end of the contract. Very disappointing!
AVOID Charlie Jeffery, a part-time DJ who describes himself as 'A charismatic people person from West Sussex', booked me in for a viewing. Arriving at the viewing, he told me the property had just been let and explained "sorry mate, this is the market". I reminded him that the market consists of buyers/sellers transacting. In other words, WE are the market (me, him, possibly you, the reader, at some future point in time). We can operate in any manner we see fit. I respect the frenetic pace of the London property market, and a young man operating to targets etc.... I don't think that lining up viewings all day at the same property and cancelling on the later ones as they arrive is appropriate. Charlie, if you are reading this, I would suggest the following: "I can book you in for 1200, but I also have an 1130 which might take the room on the spot; if you are able to work from home and be on 'stand by' I can call you if they don't take it." If this reads as too much effort, Charlie, I would suggest spacing viewings to allow an appropriate cool-off period so you can give people some notice (1 hour, perhaps?). Cramming in viewings back-to-back and letting people down on the doorstep is not going to build your rep as an estate agent in London. Keep that charisma up, 'mate'.
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http://londonshared.co.ukWhen the history of London property gets written, we'd definitely like to be seen as the early visionaries of co-living, the first to really "get it right". Landlords We’re not an estate agency, but we are lettings experts. The basic model is simple enough: we lease a property from a landlord on a 3 to 5-year agreement, and then we rent out the rooms to working professionals. We do all the hard work so the landlord doesn't have to. Tenants For tenants, it's a new-and-improved "2.0" version of communal London living. For instance, all of our properties have flat-screen TVs and free Wi-Fi, and we send a cleaner every week. For professionals wanting to make their mark in London, it takes away a lot of hassle to not have to sit around the kitchen table figuring out who owes what for the heating.
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