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Lauryn P

1 reviews | Active since Sept 2022

12 May 2026, 08:03

10 reasons NOT to stay at Barlow Park

If you were looking for a reason to move to Barlow Park, here are 10 why you should NOT. If that isn’t enough there’s 784 more reasons just under their 1 star reviews. Also watch how the admin team will respond to my review with a ChatGPT written response with no real answer given to my problems. It’s under every review here.

1. Your power gets cut off even when you pay your rent because their office is in a mess. 2. there’s constant water cuts, and no indication of when this will happen. 3. They have maintenance guys who will verbally assault you as a female because they did not do their homework on the background of these people. 4. There is an infestation of ****roaches in their blocks, and they currently have a little competition going on for the residents to call pest control and then send a chance to win a prize. How cute. 5. Their so called block A is family oriented. There are people constantly walking past at early hours of the morning screaming and laughing. 6. Trying to get ahold of the building manager to sort out something? Don’t bother, they only say they will sort it out, it never gets done. 7. They have *********** agents sorting out your lease. You’ll end up seeing 5 different apartments before you get to one that’s for you because they don’t answer your calls or messages when trying to get ahold of them and the apartments become unavailable. 8. They give you a hard time to get your family and friends access into the building but there are constant shady characters who walk around in the building and at the bottom by checkers, who also FOLLOW YOU TO YOUR APARTMENT, and there is never a security guard in sight. 9. The refuse area is infested with ****roaches and if your apartment is next door to it, it will definitely become infested too. 10. There is an entire informal settlement that is right next to the building which is never mentioned when you move here.

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Ithemba Property Management
Ithemba Property Management's reply11 Jun 2026, 15:02
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Good day Lauryn,
 
 
Utility cuts

We are unfortunately at the mercy of COJ. The building has back-up utilities to mitigate the outages. Communication is relayed to the residents as and when we receive it from COJ.


Maintenance

We could not find any outstanding maintenance work orders logged by your unit.

In addition to this, we have processes in place to monitor quality control. Residents are more than welcome to escalate any issues they have to management.


Pest Control

Regular communal space treatment is carried out. In the past 2 months we have increased our service intervals on the refuse areas to manage any potential infestation. This exercise has yielded very good results and feedback from the residents.


Visitor access
 
All residents have the Ithemba App, they have full control on generating visitor codes.
 
We have security at all entry points to assist visitors and monitor who enters / exits the building.
 
 
The concerns will be investigated further and addressed through the appropriate channels.
 
 
Kind Regards
Ithemba Property Management