Alessandro F

Tenant beware!

<p>The Company I work for rented a property in Woodhill, Pretoria, via Property Shop, where I lived from August 2013 to September 2016. Some aspects of the house were in need of attention, the carpets were stained, a door was cracked. Everything was duly reported, in writing, to Property Shop, but no improvement was carried out. Record of the communication exists and is available to Property Shop. At the time of leaving the house, Property Shop deducted the cost of repairing the door and cleaning the carpet from the deposit. Not only, they also surreptitiously deducted the amount of the last utility bill from the deposit, despite the well known arrangement in place whereby I was paying the utility bills directly to the landlord. Despite the repeated request of refund and explanation, Property Shop only returned the amount for the electricity bills, and did not have the decency to reply to my request for explanation. This was a corporate rental and I assume that Property Shop tried their cheap stunt in the knowledge that after expatriating from South Africa I would have no time nor the possibility to chase the extorted deposit. A despicable behaviour, a stain on the otherwise exceptional South African hospitality.</p>