Our experience with Uden was a disaster from start to finish. The staff are friendly but the business is completely disorganised. They ‘forgot’ our viewing appointment and left us waiting outside. When we moved in to the flat they gave us the wrong keys so we couldn’t get into the property.
The flat was let in a disgusting, run-down state, with old rubbish left in the flat, meaning our first weekend in our new home was spent having to scrub other people’s filth from the bathroom and kitchen. Kitchen cupboards were warped and chipped, tiles were loose and needed to be grouted, the washing machine wasn’t working properly, and a ground floor window frame was broken and stuffed with toilet paper to keep the draft out. The guy doing the inventory warned us before we went it that it was one of the worst states he’d seen a flat let in.
The most serious issue was shorting electricity sockets in the bedroom, due to a significant damp problem that had been concealed by being painted over. Shortly after moving in the paint started bubbling and growing mould.
A couple of weeks into the tenancy scaffolding appeared at the front of the house with no warning, with roofers leaving bags of rubble and and their KFC wrappers and bones all over the front garden. It remained there for months despite numerous calls and emails to Uden.
With every problem it took multiple phone calls, emails, handyman visits and months before anything was fixed, including a seven month wait for a new toilet seat.
It’s not the fault of the people that work there - it’s the Management not caring about tenants. They just want to make easy money off the landlords, doing zero work to maintain properties at minimal expense. Tenants beware; landlords, avoid.