********* behaviour

Met with the estate agent and a representative from Weinprop on site of a northern suburbs residence. Discussed repairs to be made and who was responsible for maintaining what. Asked for a copy of the lease to see if we were happy. Received a fully executed copy of someone else's business lease. POPI Act? Eventually got the lease document for the property under consideration, and suddenly the rental is 12% higher than advertised, and all the maintenance items we were told were the landlords responsibility, were now ours and the duration was different in different places! Sent back the lease with corrections. Waited for feedback and was told idiotically that it was not urgent as we had until the 31st when the rental agreement was due to start from the 1st!

Eventually we were told the lease was not accepted due to the changes. Changes necessitated by their negligence and ********* changes to the verbal agreement. Correspondence with the representative and the owner of the company elicited no joy. They had reneged on the advertised and accepted rental, now wanting a higher price. No one had the ***** to actually have a telephone discussion with us, hiding behind the office clerk and terse emails to the estate agent

They subsequently engaged another agent marketing the property 33% higher for 3 days before dropping 5%. Clearly no idea what they want. . If you have to rent from this company, good luck, and read your lease extremely carefully. Strangely, the property was not rented by the beginning of the month.

PS: one of the 5 starcreviews on this site is from a staff member.