About Abri Homes

The building also has a issues with its utilities! Repeated outages of internet due to a poorly designed junction into the building. The hot water shuts off at least once a month, and has stayed off for up to 3 days! The hot water issue is BY DESIGN to shut off when the fire alarm goes off, which is tested every month!!

The building is also currently undergoing renovations to fix improper fire cladding, so it’s been in construction for about 2 months, and will remain so for the next 2 years.

The topping for all of this is the management company, they are horrible. Nothing like a massive rental management company to make you feel like a worthless number instead of a valued tenant! The have consistently ignored issues with the building, and pretty consistently tells tenants to ‘boil the kettle’ when the boiler is shut off.

Lastly, the building is backed by a massive car park, which consistently houses rough sleepers, which by itself is understandable, but they have left used needles and drugs in the stairwells, and with the broken exterior doors have repeatedly broken into the block of flats and tried to get into apartments. The car park also tends to be loud friday and sat nights, so there’s that too!

You also get all the noise from all the clubs on old christchurch road from wednesday to sat nights if you live on the back side of the building.

Please tell us what you like and dislike about this area:

Easy walk to the beach and Town Centre! Wonderful for getting out and being social.

Very near bars and clubs so in the evenings between Wednesday and Saturday it can get very noisy. Additionally any alarms set off in the public car park or town centre can easily be heard.

Please share one thing (or more) which you wish you had known before you moved in:

Construction from 8am to 4pm every day. Not you professionals in the building, it’s students.

How has the building management responded to any problems or issues you have raised:

For interior repairs to our flat yes, for building issues they are slow and consistently require multiple reports to fix an item. Fixed items are done shoddily and *always* re-break

Please tell us what you like and dislike about this area:

Convenient location for getting into Southampton city centre and some good restaurants & bars near by. Despite residents having parking permits for car park it can be difficult to get a space, especially on match days – would be easy for wardens to come round. Lack of green spaces is disappointing and being so close to the docks the polution is pretty bad

Please share one thing (or more) which you wish you had known before you moved in:

That the bike shed was NOT secure and that multiple thefts had occurred previously and on a regular basis

How has the building management responded to any problems or issues you have raised:

In general building management have been slow to respond.

Please tell us what you like and dislike about this area:

The local area is great but expensive except from Wetherspoons. It is an upper class / higher end area therefore the bars and restaurants tend to target that range of cost. Lots of nearby transport and open spaces. Nice and quiet. Bins get very full

Please share one thing (or more) which you wish you had known before you moved in:

Abri haven’t revamped the flat in 10 years despite there having been a new tenancy put on (with 1 same tenant), and they haven’t responded to the obsolete heaters

How has the building management responded to any problems or issues you have raised:

They’ve responded ok to minor issues, but major issues like a leak in the roof they have not been responsive at all until I have contacted multiple times

Cons; Parking can be limited depending on the times. The communal bin area is poorly maintained. The communal areas can be updated e.g carpets peeling of paint on the walls

Please tell us what you like and dislike about this area:

Pros; The location is great – good access to everything in the city centre

Please share one thing (or more) which you wish you had known before you moved in:

The noise of the boats

How has the building management responded to any problems or issues you have raised:

There is one issue which was completely ignored during the Christmas period