Developments that ****** Money, Maintain poor communication with tenants

This experience is regarding The Junction by Central Developments: 1. Constant cable theft: One of the primary issues with residing here is that you have to brace yourself for unexpected power cuts. The cables get ****** every second week and it takes 2 to 3 days until the municipality gets around to fixing it. So apart from loadshedding, you still have no electricity half the time because the cable gets cut.

2. Constant frivolous fines and Poor Management s****s regarding communication:

Management s****s are utterly poor in the sense that they do not communicate openly with the tenants and really seem to ****** money from the tenants throughout the rental agreement. They issue fines without clarity or just cause on a regular basis and any contention to those fines are met with autocratic responses.

3. No water Meters: The water meter just automatically cuts without warning when the water gets low. They have no proper app or meter to measure water content and notify you when the water is low. This is so 19th century and technologically crippling.

4. Noise Levels: The noise levels are an absolute constant in the estate. There are people screaming the entire day and on the weekends, kids running around constantly and screaming. The music levels are never low with people drunk throughout the weekend and for some reason the people who play loud music and are causing disturbances when they drink and get roudy are never fined. It appears management is too scared to deal with these types of situations.

5. Cleanliness: The complex is not cleaned regularly and always in a mess especially the staircases. It is only cleaned once a week on Thursday when the trash is taken out and in this instance the maintenance staff takes the trash bins and places them in the parking spots which makes it difficult to park your car because the trash falls all over the place and starts to smell. Often the trash flies to the stairwells and that's not cleaned by the maintenance staff. Not to mention the lights in the stairwells are always out and ***** to walk into. Expecially at night or when there is trash all over the place.

6. Regular rental increases even during your 1 year lease: We moved into the apartment complex and signed a 6 month lease during July 2019. We then extended the lease after 6 months to another 6 months. On the lease extension, management told us that there is no rental markup when we signed the lease extension because we were still within a year. In the first month of the lease extension they sent us an sms telling us we defaulted because there is a top up fee and rental increase.

I forwarded all the emails confirming my communication with the representative at the Junction who confirmed there was no rental increase even on the document I signed and they point blank told me that they cannot see that on the communication even though they signed off on the rental extension which says specifically there is no increase.

This place increases the rental every few months without any justification. This is just a horrible way to exploit tenants. They use the excuse that every every few months they have their financial year and are entitled to increase rentals based on that which is ridiculous because what does that have to with us as tenants?

There is absolutely no communication s****s between the management and the tenants at all. If there are any changes in the rules governing the property - they do not inform the tenants.

They also promise you a one month free wifi at the apartment which they do not deliver on dispute informing them that they have not delivered on the promise of wifi.

We all expect a certain standard of professionalism and cleanliness especially if we pay exorbant amounts in rental and are constantly exponged and ******ed for money. I would not recommend living here and we are honestly very misled by the adverti*****ts about living in this sort of complex.