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Juniata P
Active since Jan 2023
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2 reviews36 months ago
Bad idea-bad agent
The agents for this company is Dan Padyachee. I used him as an agent for my apartment to assist with leasing. Once he received his payout of 1 months rent in advance, he has never done the job he was paid for. He does not follow up on complaints, property inspections, outstanding electricity bills, and worst of all outstanding rental. He has allowed the tenant to be late of paying rental every month for a year. Which usually leads to me doing follow ups, making phone calls and sending msgs. Currently the tenant has an outstanding bill of 18k for 2 months. As the lease has expired, the tenant has made no means to pay or leave the apartment. With every excuse under the sun. This how now lead to me getting a lawyer to sue both the agent and tenant and hopefully get my money and apartment back. My advice, stay away.
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41 months ago
Not recommended
I recently got married, and I have to just say that it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. As most of the advice that goes around says, “don’t expect things to go perfectly, things will go wrong, but just make of the most of it”. So that was something I was willing to deal with. However there are certain things that you cannot unfortunately let slide. I do feel that it is my responsibility to inform other possible clients about the misrepresentation and false advertising that does go around. In order to prevent what happened to me, to happen to others. The venue that I used for my Hurdhee and Sangeet night was Umhlanga Function Venue. Been the type A personality that I am, I had met with the owner of the venue prior to booking the place. Meetings before my event, even doing a run through about how the evening will progress. The night of my event, I was still running abit late. Luckily most of my guests had also been abit late given the bad weather. I had sent the owner a play list of songs that my sister had compiled so that the dj would know what to play. When we came back into the venue after doing a ritual outside, there was distasteful music been played. So my sisters asked the dj, what music this was from and if he could change it, as it wasn’t from the playlist she had sent. The owner then called me into her office, 5 minutes before I was meant to be on stage. To inform me that her DJ was upset, apparently my sister had spoken to him in a rude manner and he was going to leave my event, leaving me with no one to play music, and do sound. As I entered her office she points to my sister on a web camera screen. Asking “Who is this?”. As if this is a school and I am been reprimanded. I told her that was not how the conversation with the dj and my sister went. She did not know that I was with my sister when this conversation happened. The owner did not confirm her story before calling me in, during my event, when I am expected to be greeting my guests and to be on stage. Her Dj then went outside and started bad mouthing my sister while my guests were entering, while my event was going on. Something that the owner cannot “remember “ had occurred when I had asked her about it after my honeymoon. That was just the beginning of the poorly run, event venue. I cannot understand, that if you are meant to be running a venue for an event that people literally pay 10s of thousands of rands to use, how can you be so rude unprofessional and unapologetic. If you could imagine this scene, you as the bride sitting on stage. Trying to give instruction to your family to please check 1,2,3 things. Having that additional stress when the venue is retailed as “event coordination “. To name a few more issues I had with the venue and the management of it. - no drinks on the table when guests came in. - no starting platters on the table (my dad had to actually wake up and ask the kitchen to bring out things) - poor sound (music was too loud, could not hear the priest, priest mic was not working) -doing venue viewings with other clients, during my event. -posting pictures of my family on social media without permission after bad management of my event. #falseadvertising The list just goes on. The worse part was that I actually confronted the owner about this a couple months later. And then I got insulted even more with no apology what so ever. Apparently, “ I am the type of bride that doesn’t look at the 90% that went well, and focuses on the 10% that didn’t”? To which my response was, “Unfortunately I am. Because I used my Fathers had earned money to hire your venue. And I did expect that at the very least I wouldn’t leave my special day with my family been insulted”. Atleast it is the guests that make the event, and we had a wonderful enthusiastic crowd. So we made the most out of a bad situation. I would not recommend Umhlanga Function Venue to anyone.
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