The Wall is terrible to deal with. I lived in a block of flats in Al Saad from 2006-2008. I was one of the first tenants into the place and always paid on time and in cash. During this period, rents were going up fairly consistently. By the time I was looking to renew in fall of 2008, they wanted to hike the rent up even further.
The kicker was, they always advertise in Gulf Times and the exact same flats were being advertised at the usual price. When I confronted them with this, they said when a customer renews, they must increase X%. I replied "Let me get this straight, a new customer would get the old price, but me as an existing tenant will have a higher price!?" The joker at the office gave me a half-shrugging smirk!
I moved out as soon as the contract finished and would never consider dealing with them again.
As for little things, they would let the garbage pile up in the summer time and the smell would waft up the garbage shutes in the hallways. Many complaints and they never did a thing about it. The maintenance people were fairly useless as well. On a couple occasions I had to tell them how to do their jobs. Not that I blame the maintenance staff, but the cheap landlords that want to cut costs everywhere possible.
The Wall is terrible to deal with. I lived in a block of flats in Al Saad from 2006-2008. I was one of the first tenants into the place and always paid on time and in cash. During this period, rents were going up fairly consistently. By the time I was looking to renew in fall of 2008, they wanted to hike the rent up even further.
The kicker was, they always advertise in Gulf Times and the exact same flats were being advertised at the usual price. When I confronted them with this, they said when a customer renews, they must increase X%. I replied "Let me get this straight, a new customer would get the old price, but me as an existing tenant will have a higher price!?" The joker at the office gave me a half-shrugging smirk!
I moved out as soon as the contract finished and would never consider dealing with them again.
As for little things, they would let the garbage pile up in the summer time and the smell would waft up the garbage shutes in the hallways. Many complaints and they never did a thing about it. The maintenance people were fairly useless as well. On a couple occasions I had to tell them how to do their jobs. Not that I blame the maintenance staff, but the cheap landlords that want to cut costs everywhere possible.
Good riddance!