Stay away from Huurkor and Afhco property management

I moved into a unit at Golf Park, Pretoria West in 2017. The property was managed by Huurkor at the time. Huurkor did to me something that I find ****gish. I signed a contract with Huurkor, paid rent and deposit, after paying over R9000 they told me that they won't give me the keys to the apartment until I have signed another contract with Ismrt and pay an extra R1600 for water and electricity. All along they didn't say anything about Ismrt, they only told me about it after signing a contract with them and paying rent and deposit. What if I didn't have an extra R1600? What was going to happen?I have heard a number of people at Golf Park relating the same story. This is ****gish.

Golf Park was later taken over by Afhco property management. I have a lot to share about the service under both companies but my focus for now is this: I moved out of Golf Park, 631 Lievaart Street,in January 2020. Money was deducted for painting, and a globe. I have the checklist of when I moved in.

The main bedroom didn't have a light bulb, the kitchen was one light bulb short. I find it strange that Afhco has charged me for things that were not there when I moved in.

Secondly, the painting. When I moved in, the unit was dirty, stinky and had stains on the wall, some of which I washed. The unit was not painted. I raised this with the caretaker. Another concern is that, even before he could assess the unit, the caretaker was already saying that they will have to paint the whole unit. Painting the whole unit was a preconceived idea. Afhco effectively made me pay for the painting that was not done when I moved in, they also made a decision to repaint the unit at my expense before they assessed the unit. Stay away from properties managed by Huurkor and Afhco property management.

Afhco, please refund me the rest of my deposit.