Ad Hoc Property Management Ltd
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I completely sympathise with the other…
I completely sympathise with the other Guardians comments. What seemed to be the perfect solution for me has over the last 12 months turned into a nightmare. The York office are arrogant, ignorant, condescending and patronising! Twice we were without hot water for over a week, on the first occasion it took 2 weeks for AdHoc & the clowncil to sort it out. On the second occasion 2 housemates fixed the problem in 5 minutes after a week of no response form AdHoc. One housemate was told that AdHoc check the rooms "to make sure you're not growing weed"!!! Really! Thanks AdHoc its nice to know that's how you think of your guardians!!! The house is full of adults over 30 who are respectful and helpful to each other. No one has an issue with anyone else within the property. Until AdHoc send completely inappropriate emails to all within the property, the tone is patronising and abrupt. Telling housemates to remove "belongings" from the kitchen area - hello! Does this mean we have to empty the cupboards of pots, pans and food? So what if we store other items in the cupboards - if everyone has their own cupboard what has it to do with AdHoc? Yet, when we have a leaking water pipe in the kitchen AdHoc (and the clowncil) did nothing! That's right, NOTHING! It was one of the housemates that turned the water off to prevent flooding. Ad Hocs response "you have enough kitchen sinks"....well AdHoc the washing up sink only has cold water running, the small hand washing sink only has a hot water tap that runs cold for a few minutes and then nothing, and the white hand basin is inaccessible due to the washing machine! So, in the kitchen we have no hot water to wash up in and have to boil large pans (which surely is a health & safety issue having to carry a hot pan across a kitchen to fill a sink. Plus the additional cost of having to heat this water!) One housemate has been told she has "too much stuff" - erm well she did move out of a house into a room....der.... and other housemates have been berated for using an unlocked room as storage - well AdHoc there's a money making opportunity for you, charge the housemates an extra £20 to share the use of one room for storage! It doesn't take a genius to work that one out! All in all my initial impression of AdHoc was brilliant but after 2 years I am sad to say that they don't care about the guardians and tend to see them as people they can dictate to. I am reminded of the Stanford Prison experiment conducted by Prof Phillip Zimbardo and the guardians are the prisoners!