"Househoppers" play on property owners frustration dealing with councils in blatant profit scheme.

Househoppers is a company that supposedly helps homeowners cut through red-tape to sort out council issues relating to property valuations and rates issues. However, they draw you in with an initial non-refundable payment to start the work on your issue/problem, spend many weeks "dealing with councils directly" and after about 6 weeks, they send you a long and extensive list of exactly what the council has charged you for which anybody can easily obtain on their own in about ten minutes going on-line to your own account. They then suggest that if you want to continue with your complaint/problem/issue, you need to send even larger amounts of non-refundable payments which steadily increase by about R1000 per option. There is no question in my mind that "Househoppers" found online at www.househoppers.co.za is a **** and a *****ulent company that is either in bed with the councils they deal with, or just using the council as a means to entice unsuspecting property owners. I handed them absolute proof of why I needed to question my re-evaluation on my property, being that the council is charging me for my neighbours property value who's house is on a double stand and 700 square meters larger than my own, which is also on video and with blatant proof of their error, and with the return result I got from Househoppers, it's blatantly obvious they did not even look at my submission. Do yourself a big favour - stay away from "Househoppers" and rather keep trying to work on the council yourself even though we all know what a nightmare it is.