Retraction

Zelie

She's drunk again. She meant "A void, A void!". She was trying to advise Sunhil Down of IRD Homes (now Bay City Living in Cardiff )* to be careful not to take on poor tenants who will abandon properties with no notice and leave poor Sunil Dhown and Richard Elby (and they mysterious Kamni Dhown) with a void and no income. Silly Lynz. She should know that such professional and efficient people would never take on irresponsible tenants in the first place.

I note that the Bay City Living website http://www.baycityliving.co.uk has the questions "Agent/Landlord too slow? Problems not fixed?" on their tenants page. But then no answers. It is entirely unclear whether these questions are to their own tenants or other people's. What can it all mean?

*Cardiff Bay? Where Torchwood 3 is? (Or was it 5?). Have they really moved their office into that blown up bunker?

Running_Horse

As well as thanking the OP, I clicked on the "like this thread" button on this thread about Sunil Dhown of IRD Homes.

Not idea what it does, but I do like this thread about Sunil Dhowne of IRD Homes.

StudentMoneySaver

I'm so glad Sunil Dhown and IRD Homes managed to rid the internet of the shockingly inaccurate thread by the OP. Bile of that calibre should never be posted onto the internet. All it does is ruin the reputations of a fine and upstanding businessmen, such as Sunil Dhown and destroy the companies they have worked hard (as Letting Agents are famed for) to build up.

Sunil Dhown and IRD Homes were correct to delete the original post and I for one hope we never have to see it again.

Hi Guys,

This is my first post on here, but I want to make sure that nobody ends up having to deal with what me and my girlfriend have been through over the last six months.

The basic overview, for people who don't want to read a wall of text is that IRD Homes are the most terrible letting and management company I have ever had the misfortune of dealing with (and I've dealt with a few). The are overpriced and incompetent at the very least and threatening and extortionate at their worst.

My story is as follows:

November 2009, I was looking to move to London for a new job and didn't ahve a great deal of time to look around places to live, so when I found a 2 bedroom flat for £1000 a month with private secure parking owned by a private landlord with no deposit I thought all my dreams had come true.

Having been given a whistle-stop tour of the flat, which didn't last long enough for me to spot any of the serious defects, the place looked fine for £1000 a month so I paid the holding deposit and signed the contract a week later. This is where the problems began...

When we moved in, we found the kitchen tap to be leaking all over the worktop and cabinets, most of the lights in the flat had blown bulbs, the sink and bath plugs in the bathroom wouldn't hold any water and the flat was furnished after I had informed the letting agent that I wanted it to be unfurnished as I have all my own stuff. I immediately contacted the Letting Agent (Jeremy of Saxon Kings - One of the laziest and most unprofessional men I have ever met) with the list of problems since we didn't have any contact details for the landlord.

At the same time I enquired about getting my parking permit for my free parking that is provided on site for residents. I was told that since it wasn't in my contract, although it had been confirmed verbally by both the letting agent and the woman who showed us around the flat initially, that the parking space was an extra £100 PER MONTH!!! At first I thought I'd misheard, but was then reassured that I hadn't. As a result I park the car around the corner (roughly 100 yards away) for free!

It took a total of four weeks for them to remove the furniture and complete all the repairs, and shortly after moving in the washing machine went on the fritz. It took another 5 weeks for them to replace the washing machine for which I deducted an appropriate amount of rent, which then then moaned about.

Then just 4 months into my one year fixed term contract I get a call from the landlord himself, a Mr Sunil Dhown, informing me that he will be terminating the contract in 2 months unless I agree to a 20% rent increase. I checked the legality of this and was told that the landlords break clause was a standard thing, but rarely used for this sort of thing. Either way, I had to either move out or pay up. I chose the former.

The misery isn't over yet though, as I still have three weeks left before my move. Upon moving out, I'll warn people that although there is no deposit to pay, they do charge a £50 referencing fee and a £100 cleaning fee to be paid when you leave. They also seem to think that it's appropriate to not give tenants written notice of people coming around to view, although I quickly sorted that out by turning them away at the door.

The flat is now on the market for £1200 a month in their Isleworth development (TW7 4JU) and I would recommend that people think long and hard before signing a contract with IRD Homes as I understand that I am not the only person who has found their approach to property letting to be substandard.

If you don't believe that one group of people could be so bad at doing something so simple I have kept all the e-mails and you can have a read if you like

tbs624

Zelie wrote: »

She meant "A void, A void!". She was trying to advise Sunhil Down of IRD Homes (now Bay City Living in Cardiff )*

StudentMoneySaver wrote: »

It doesn't look like it. It could be a coincidence that their marketing approach is similar to IRD Homes.

There is nothing to suggest that Bay City Living, set up at the start of 2010, is actually part of the IRD Homes set up.

However, it's nice to see that one of their testimonials, as reproduced by Lynz in post no 290, was provided (apparently) by someone called S Dhown. There may, of course, be absolutely no connection between that S Dhown and the S Dhown of this thread....

lynzpower

joolsybools wrote: »

What did you say was that Magnum House in Kingston avoid avoid avoid?

Could have been

More to the point, one might be sceptical about any business operating outside of 7 SLOANE COURT

Im not of course, I remain open minded as ever:beer:

tbs624

StudentMoneySaver wrote: »

I'm so glad Sunil Dhown and IRD Homes managed to rid the internet of the shockingly inaccurate thread by the OP. Bile of that calibre should never be posted onto the internet. All it does is ruin the reputations of a fine and upstanding businessmen, such as Sunil Dhown and destroy the companies they have worked hard (as Letting Agents are famed for) to build up.

Sunil Dhown and IRD Homes were correct to delete the original post and I for one hope we never have to see it again.

It's dreadful to think that some people may well have saved those pages onto their own computers despite the hard work involved in removing it from more recent google searches.

For those who are upset that the original IRD website is still Dhown, the cached version hasn't yet been removed (Sunny may be disappointed that it can take a few weeks)

IRD Homes is a new and aggressive Residential Letting and Management Agency specialising in the “Buy to Let” investment sector. IRD Homes has a pragmatic view to the challenges faced by all consumers in the current climate, and that is to take one day at a time, and all we can endeavor to is with dedication and application, IRDHomes will achieve your’s and for that our goals. Our team, though has a combined experience in the Residential Letting and Management industry of some 50 years, is refreshing in its fine blend of youthful exuberance and yet considered approach to a consuming and demanding business.
IRD Homes through its numerous years of experience has decided to call upon key experienced personnel to separately look after landlords and tenants.
Whether you are looking to rent or let, than our network of offices with trained personnel will be on hand to assist with every detail.


[SIZE=-3] Optimising :- Rental Property, Agents, rent Cardiff, rent Central London, rent City of London, rent Edinburgh, rent Finsbury Park, rent Glasgow , rent Glasgow Harbour , rent Ilford, rent Isleworth, rent Kingston, rent Twickenham, Residential Property[/SIZE].

Note: Those pink font colour search terms were cunningly hidden in the pretty pink bar along the bottom of the page and will help people find properties let out by those associated with IRD homes:)

IRD Homes was set up to manage the Investment Portfolio of a small number of private prominent investors and today manages a portfolio of some 300 plus properties throughout the U.K.
Having now acquired a wealth of experience of some 20 years in the investment letting industry, IRD Homes has now extended its services to the public sector as leading U.K. developers, agents and financial institutions have expressed that they too would like their investor clients to experience "The Investment Letting Specialists". From our experience we can and do understand the frustration experienced by landlords in appointing letting agents that have no understanding of being a landlord themselves and as a letting agent are solely focussed on their fee, full stop. IRD Homes fully understands that the income achieved on a property is just a bit part in determining a successful investment.

IRD Homes focus will be: A respectable tenant
Maximum achievable rent
Nil void periods
Income enhancement - Bi-annually and annually
IRD Homes flexibility on fee collection for the landlord if cashflow is challenged
IRD Homes also offers landlords a NEW UNIQUE MARKET LEADING NO RISK-INCOME GUARANTEED service.
All the above is as crucial to IRD Homes as is to the landlord as failure to achieve these goals will be viewed by IRD Homes as its failure. IRD Homes is also well aware of the difficulties in servicing from the income:

Mortgage interest
Agent fees
Void periods
Building management charges
Petty tenant claims and withheld rent
The very most important matter we at IRDHomes recognise is that we will at all times be aware of just who is the agent and who is the landlord, an issue we have had much frustration on with experience of appointing letting agents who just cannot understand that they are agents and not the landlord.
I would like to think there is not a great deal we do not know in the investment letting business as we have experienced pretty much it all in various changing markets over the past 20 years which we believe positions us for the current challenging market conditions experienced by us all. So please do call us to discuss in confidence any matter.
Sunny Dhown
Managing Director


Cardiff | Edinburgh | Finsbury Park | Glasgow Harbour |
Ilford | Isleworth | Kingston | Twickenham |

If you want to rent an IRD homes property they can be found on City Lets and S1Homes.com websites ( for Scotland )
and on Rightmove eg, http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/new-homes/property-21733025.html link on right of page to other IRD-let properties

When_is_the_reset?

I cannot believe that this thread was in danger of dropping off page 2.

You should be ashamed of yourselves.

lynzpower

When_is_the_reset? wrote: »

I cannot believe that this thread was in danger of dropping off page 2.

You should be ashamed of yourselves.

Its a team effort

Thanks for bumping and keeping SUNHIL AND IRD LETTINGS FROM falling DHOWN the pages

whitewing

I don't think Bay City Living is actually one of Sunil's businesses, although it is definitely Sunil Dhown of IRD Homes who has provided the testimonial, according to the website.

Apparently (I read in one of the other threads), IRD comes from names of the family members. Wonder what the SD of SD Investments could have come from?

Anyway, I think it is unlikely that Bay City is actually a member of the Dhown family conceived in Cardiff but you never know.

It may be a good idea for Sunil to focus his attention on the property requirements of the soon-to-be-retired. Then he could set up 'Dhown Sizing' Ltd.

mystic_trev

.....those purveyors of fine properties and lettings? I can't believe a company with such a fine reputation, would let their site stay dhown for such a long time. Come on Sunny, get yer finger out and have it fixed! :mad: