MS
Mantsororo S

1 reviews | Active since Aug 2025

11 Aug 2025, 10:52

Fungi Utilities exist to rip you off, RUN if you can.

1. Fungi Utilities charges you to top-up on their wallets. For a R1000 top-up you remain with R950 in your wallet before using any electricity or water.

2. You will be charged management fees of up to R200 after they charged you wallet fees.

3. I stay at an M&T property and the Hot Water billing doubles every six months. When they took over in Oct 2023 their daily rate was around R7.45, 2024 the rate increased to about R16.20 and today (2025) our daily rate is at R32.39. The rate at which we take showers has not changed but their billing escalates every month and their agents tell you it is prorata while there are fewer tenants occupying and using hot water now.

4. You pay for communal sewarage, communal electricity, communal water on top of your own Sewarage, Electricity, Sanitation and Water that you consume in your apartment. I don't understand why i am paying for the Secutiry Guards toilets and heaters or their staff rooms and garden water when i have already paid rent. Surely the upkeep of the property should be their own corporate expenses.

5. On days when there is no electricity due to cable theft, you are still billed for the nonexistent electricity so is the hot water, and this is happening at least once a week.

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Replies (3)
Fungi Utilities (Pty) Ltd
Fungi Utilities (Pty) Ltd's reply11 Aug 2025, 11:55
Official
Good day Manstsororo,

Please note that we have an open ticket for your query, and we will provide feedback on ticket #61443.

Kind Regards
MS
Mantsororo S's update11 Aug 2025, 16:35
Reviewer Update
A certain Thembelihle responded and cited a billing of R2.6972 to R2.9723 per kWh on hot water. We are told that the boilers uses gas and provides hot water even when there is no electricity.
Question is since when do we measure gas by kilo wattage, from the municipality for that matter? The lease agreements says nothing about paying for communal water and sewerage and in fact they still refer to the RMS Smart meter billing system.
MS
Mantsororo S's update11 Aug 2025, 17:04
Reviewer Update
All common area water taps are locked and yet we pay for some mysterious common water usage on a daily.
We pay for communal sewerage amounting to hundreds of rands per apartment when there's not even common ablution facilities around our Blocks.