“We had our rental property managed by Holland......”
1 Star Review
Mar 23,2022
By:
'Peter'
Mar 23,2022
Branch: London, 429 Westferry Road
Services: Lettings (as a Landlord)
Rent PCM: £885
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode: RM16
Branch: London, 429 Westferry Road
Lettings (as a Landlord)
Rent PCM: £885
Postcode: RM16
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We had our rental property managed by Holland Properties since we purchased it in 2008, and we received a good standard of service and communication. A complete senior management change was instigated in summer 2021 and almost all the original staff left the business within a couple of months. From this point the communication became sporadic and the management process began to fall apart and we ended up in effect self-managing our property due to the incompetence of Holland Properties.
Our property manager was very reactive with us and our tenant when dealing with problems, and addressing issues took months rather than days in a couple of instances. We had to source a new boiler, a new kitchen and liaise directly with the contractor as our property manager was distant when needing to do her job.
When tasked with new storage heaters being required in our property, we were sent a number of website addresses to look at; that is not property management! A reported bathroom water leak took HP two months to send a contractor to rectify the issue. At weekends there was no point of contact or emergency contact numbers for our tenant to access a staff member at HP, or an emergency contractor. When our property manager was away on leave or sick, there was no HP staff members able to deal with any issues either from the tenant or us.
We have now moved our property away from Holland Properties and so has a colleague who also had a property being managed by HP, with the same management issues and a distinct lack of their involvement in the management process.
Some contractors used have not been vetted or had due diligence checks made prior to being used.
Landlords beware, you won't receive the level of service you will expect or need.
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I see that the "Head of Client Service" has now moved on after only seven months.