If you are looking for a new home, then Shropshire might be the place for you. This county is located in the West Midlands region of England and has much to offer prospective homeowners. For example, it offers affordable housing prices that will leave plenty of room leftover in your budget for all those other things that make life worth living. Shropshire boasts some fantastic countryside, but also has plenty of towns and cities for those who prefer city life!
Feeling the financial strain
The site gardeners are shockingly poor. The rent increases are becoming unaffordable. The maintenance of the site on the development and tenants is shocking. We’ve made ours a home, but most seem to be squatting. Sold a dream that didn’t exist. It looks like you are no better thought of being a long term no trouble tenant. Some items which came with the property and are now failing after 4 years of living here, are having to be replaced by us because it’s general wear and tear?! Another expense on top of the expensive rent cost. Which really worries us when it comes to carpets or flooring needing replacing due to wear and tear?!
Please review your development:
Houses are small but nice if looked after by tenants. Not worth the rent prices though. More trees should of been planted on the site, very open and bare. Most of the trees that were planted have died and not been replaced. Lots of plants and shrubs have died also and not been replaced leaving bare dirts for cats and dogs to poo on.
Please share one thing (or more) which you wish you had known before you moved in:
I wish we hadn’t been lied to and told the full facts.
How has the building management responded to any problems or issues you have raised:
Problems have been sorted quite swiftly, but sometimes we have had to repair or replace things ourselves, again extra costs on an already expensive rent price.
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Manager Response
Hi Lou,
Thank you for your feedback. We’re sorry to hear that you are not happy with your rent. The rents are all carefully considered with the view of wanting to retain our loyal customers but also needing to be in line with that of the local rental market rates.
We will feed your comments regarding planting and garden care to our maintenance team. All plants and trees should be replaced, however in some case they may be re-planted in Spring time.
We try to be as clear as possible in our welcome brochures and all the information provided in our resident app, to best manage resident expectations around what is deemed as resident responsibility and what is deemed as landlord responsibility. If any repairs are required to items that are not as a result of tenant damage, then Simple Life cover the costs to fix these items. As we are unable to identify you via the information provided in your review, we would invite you to get in touch with the team so we can investigate some of the issues you have had, to ensure that the outcome has been fairly managed by the team.
