Jan 24,2023
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Hobdens Managing Agent has been the worst Managing Agent I’ve ever come across in my entire life and I’m over 60. I could write a book. They are refusing us to inspect the accounts after being served summary of service charges. They’re refusing to do any works whatsoever Send I don’t have enough money when we’ve got interior walls in our flat is crumbling down, black mould, mushroom is the size of my hand growing et cetera et cetera. We are only a very small block of Flats & have paid them well over £7000 in six months. We have no idea where that money is gone as they keep saying they don’t have any money. We have said we will pay upfront for the works ourselves and they still use that excuse. I have serious health conditions including a partially collapsed lung with recurrent severe chest infections and I’m living in a flat filled with lots of plaster horsehair dust everywhere due to the leaks from the exterior of the building. The only time they’ve sent someone out to do some works, they accidentally did the works on the wrong part of the building And Waze leaseholders had to stop him because he ruined a perfectly good render. They absolutely do not who they’re sending out. I’ve asked repeatedly about the companies I’ve sent out and they said they don’t know they’ve never used them before and they were just on a list given to them by the previous Managing Agent. They have charged us or service charges for things that don’t even exist such as cleaning when we’ve never ever had a cleaner because we’re very small block and we do it ourselves, also electricity bills from them when the electricity is hooked up to our own meters and we pay the bills directly, they won’t even acknowledge that they’ve messed up on this and credit our accounts. Two out of the four leaseholders have paid the majority of the service charges but holding back a bit until we get confirmation of the service charges we actually owe. And now they’re threatening legal action. They are unbelievably scrupulous. Do not ever, book these guys to be your Managing Agent. Get rid of them as soon as you can if they’re in place
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41a Beach Road
Littlehampton
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BN17 5JA
01903 724040
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Aug 26,2024
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On 12/12/2023 a stage 3 complaint was raised about an abandoned car permanently parked on residential car park managed by Hobdens Property Management. They ignored the complaint until it was made public and finally responded in August 2024. In public responses they lied that the complaint was responded ...
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As commented on other sites where this individual has left a review, there is another side to the story with this vehicle, which is parked in an allocated parking bay and is registered SORN. Contrary to the review we have not ignored the issue and have the emails to prove it. The review is completely unfair. ...
Dec 19,2023
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A worse managing agent is difficult to imagine. Absolutely no response from Hobdens to any enquiries from leaseholders. They allow slum like conditions to fester. Lift out of order for 8 weeks. Flooding of entire areas of the common parts due to lack of drain clearance. ...
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SOS represents many disgruntled owners at Marine Court, not one person as you imply. Since Hobdens joined THERE HAVE BEEN NO IMPROVEMENTS WHATSOEVER. In fact, the communication is the worst it's ever been with no responses to resident concerns or enquiries, it's like contacting a brick wall. They regularly cut off the water without notification, the only time you ever hear from them is when they send bills. They refuse to be transparent in regards to the company accounts when asked for them, th ...
Aug 22,2023
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A problem with our lift recently. Previous management left us without a lift for months. Hobdens too over and lift repaired within a week. Noise with lift last week, Scott of Littlehampton got it sorted the next morning once he was involved....
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Jul 10,2023
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I want to give some feedback about the work of Kerry at Hobdens Management who has taken over the job as the Property Manager of our buildings. Following some very unpleasant experiences, with work that was not done as promised, I was totally demoralised and ...
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Jun 07,2023
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Absolutely disgusting, negligent money suckers. They charge leaseholders for management of block of flats, and do absolutely nothing. We have mould, thick layer of moss in all communal areas (I slipped and hurt myself twice), we dive in ocean of rubbish, rats are running here, ...
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Apr 28,2023
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I’m in the process of purchasing a property where Hobdens are the managing agents. I called about a month ago with some queries- and have since called 5 times. Each time the poor receptionist has sent an email to the person looking after the property, ...
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Hi Chris
Please contact me with details of which property you are purchasing and I will investigate the matter for you. ...
Jan 24,2023
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Hobdens Managing Agent has been the worst Managing Agent I’ve ever come across in my entire life and I’m over 60. I could write a book. They are refusing us to inspect the accounts after being served summary of service charges. They’re refusing ...
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Dec 01,2020
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I can't quite express the dissatisfaction we've experienced with Hobdens. Unbelievably unresponsive, uncooperative and unprofessional. We spent over a year trying to get hold of them with constant phone calls and emails. We were consistently fobbed off with excuses and went countless times without a ...
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Jan 23, 2023
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This managing agent is absolutely unbelievable. We requested details of our service charges of which they’ve put completely illegitimate charges for things that we don’t even have like cleaning and electricity. The electricity gets charged to our own personal meters as leaseholders. I have walls falling down with dust and black mould everywhere and I have cancer and I have very serious lung issues and they’ve done absolutely nothing. They do not care that I’m living in a place that was a ...
May 16,2020
May 16,2020
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Two main issues with Hobdens :-
1. When the block of flats I live in needed the roof repaired, Hobdens allowed the residents management company to maintain the service charge at far too low a level. This resulted in all 24 flat owners paying £5,000.00 each in a ...
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Hi Helen
I have only just seen your comments as we did not get any notification about your post. I don’t know which property you live at so it is difficult to comment fully but please understand that the final decision on budgets rests with the RMC so it isn’t a case of us allowing the Service Charge to be too low.
Regarding the noise complaints these can sometimes be difficult to resolve without legal action and it sounds like such action may be disproportionate in this case. If howeve ...
Sep 06,2019
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This company are assigned as the property management agents to deal with management of the maintenance on our business estate in Lancing.
On a personal level, I wish I had never heard, seen or had anything to do with these people. Unfortunately, I have no ...
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We are aware of Mr Black's complaint and it would not be appropriate for us to go into the detail here but he is aware of the position. Whilst it is always disappointing to receive reviews such as this, there are always two sides to every story and we are content that we have acted correctly and professionally. ...
Dec 17,2014
Dec 17,2014
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Where do I begin they need some new property surveyors apparently my building has nothing wrong with it but it has cracks everywhere walls peeling building has not been painted in 5years it was meant to be painted in the summer had all the quotes ...
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the agent needs to stop making false promises and start for filling there duties they are paid a lot of money for nothing.Attached Filesnbsp;
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I have to laugh when they say they bet all of their contractors. They have sent absolute Cowboys out to our property when I asked who they were they said they didn’t know they’ve never used them before. They do not vote the people they send out at all. I’m going to do a full complaint where everyone can see what we’ve been through but I just had to make a comment on that ...
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