Daleen N

Bogus Real Estate

I live in one of the buildings managed by Zulberg and their utilities rates have been crazy since day one. I complained at some point and one of the employees scheduled a meeting in their office we managed to iron some things out and the water bill came down with about R600 but the electricity bill never came down I even asked why it's fixed, his response was they don't have money to put prepaid meter in every unit and right now for both electricity and water bill the amount is shared amongst the number of units in the building, it doesn't matter how many people live in that unit. We are three working adults who are never home and we put the gyser on for 2 hours in the morning when getting ready for work. The electricity bill has been +R900-R1300 a month, this month is R1994 I don't understand how and why. I have tried all avenues to get the matter resolved coz even the person I had the meeting with later denied about how the bill is split. Numerous times they've been memos on the main entrance from Joburg water about the amount they are owed by the building, just yesterday there was no power coz Eskom came saying they are owed by the building so they had to cut the power off. This morning was when I got the statement of owing almost R2000 and my neighbor who stays alone owes 2243