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Belvoir - York

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1.00 /5

After 3 years living in one of their managed apartment in East Parade I can unfortunately share my negative experience I had as tenant with Belvoir and its owners. Claire attitude has been very difficult throughout my experience. As tenant I never felt respected despite I was adhering to all my duties as tenant (e.g. Paying my rent always on time, taking good care of the house and never created any issues throughout the tenancy period). There were a couple of issues I experienced such damps in living room which were never sorted during my tenancy despite reporting issues multiple times. Single thing which was done was to paint over the damps which came back after few days. Another issue was related to the fact that during covid period I was forced to accept the visit of their electrician to my property despite I had never agreed to the visit. I was threatened to be obliged to pay the electrician fee if I hadn't accepted the visit despite I had explicitly asked them to arrange any maintenance work via call phone instead of message due to my impossibilities to answer text message unless WhatsApp. The electrician private message to organise the visit was never answered and the electrician remembered just the day before (at 10 pm) to remind me about his compulsory visit which was never agreed to. Claire fully supported his supplier instead of trying to empathise and understand why I could not let him in after few hours notice (i.e. I had to work the day after). Apart from the total lack of support over the 3 years as tenant, the last issue was related to the deposit. At the end of the tenancy they came out with really petty excuses (dirty skirting board, light switches and bathroom panel dirty after they took the pic with flash and light off in the bathroom) aimed at holding a cleaning fee of £150. Fortunately, I had enough evidence about my good faith and for a principle matter I decided to go through an independent adjudicator through the DPS. and guess what? The adjudicator stated that the cleaning fee of 150 pounds????? is unreasonable and unjustified in her/his report where he/ she awarded me of the entire deposit fee they were trying to claim. A genuine tips for all tenants leaving the property, keep record of all communication during the check in and take good pictures and videos of the house when leaving the property. I wish I could have left a positive experience/ review to a local business but unfortunately due to how I felt during the tenancy I am forced to share this experience with the hope to help future tenants to be treated better! Update after answer of the owner: hopefully Belvoir answer can show the difficult attitude I was mentioning and how they live in a delusional world. PS. Please check the review I left to local businesses to see how untruthful their comment is 😉

Reply from agent

Hi Lucio, I am quite surprised to receive this review although looking at your google profile it seems you have quite a hobby of leaving negative reviews for local businesses. I disagree with all your comments, but I’ll try to make my reply brief as I do not have the same benefit of time on my hands and it seems whatever the situation you would have left a bad review. The facts are you occupied a property for over 3 and half years (of which you could have left had you felt so upset with its condition or our service), at below market rent with no rent increases throughout the tenancy, no maintenance issue refused or unacted upon and no deposit deductions despite the property being left in a subpar condition. We allowed you to vacate the property several days later than you should have, for no further rent and remove furniture that really should have been replaced. The damp work was carried out in September 2021 (during your tenancy which you seem to have forgotten) It was not a case of ‘just’ painting the walls, this was part of much larger damp proof work as you know. Unfortunately, after the work was done it became apparent that the issues were caused in building and as you live in a first floor flat, and we do not manage the whole building then this was for the management company to arrange, again you were well aware of this and seemingly happy to occupy the property for a further 2 years. Unsure why you feel the need now to complain about something you never raised issue with during your tenancy. The electrician visit you refer to was to carry out the EICR, a legal requirement for the property. We were not in lockdown when the visit was carried out so I’m not sure why COVID is relevant. You were notified by the electrician as well as by us and tried to cancel the appointment last minute which of course would have brought in a cancellation charge by the electrician as he is self-employed. I’m sure if we had not carried out the EICR then this would have also made you unhappy cause you to leave a negative review. As was pointed out to you several times, we do not make the decision on what to deduct from the deposit, we are an agent working on a landlord’s behalf. As you seemed to understand at the time this was the reason for deductions to be referred to the DPS adjudication service so that they could make the decision an option which Claire suggested to you, and you seemed very happy to accept. It seems unfair to leave a review for us based on a decision we did not make. Regards, Charlotte Baron(Belvoir York)

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