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5 Kensington Place, Fairfield, Hamilton

By: Coldone112

06/10/2023

Moved in Feb 2021

Moved out Dec 2022

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1/5

Tenants paid $440/week

Area: 1/5

Maintenance: 1/5

Utilities: 2/5

Warmth: 3/5

Spacious flat with a nice garden, mouldy and old though with damp door frames and an ancient shower that always smelled rotten. The landlord doesn't care about anything but the front garden and will increase the rent as much as they can without taking care of the mold. Terrible area too, it's right by a parking lot; trucks, parties, bottles smashing, any hour of the day or night. There's a lot of noisy neighbours on other sides as well, and when I lived there our attached neighbour would tell the landlord if we didn't weed some weeks, so that wasn't a vibe. Not worth the price at all.

2/7 Stanley Street, Claudelands, Hamilton

By: ayumic

04/10/2023

Moved in Jul 2020

Moved out Dec 2021

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3/5

Tenants paid $420/week

Area: 3/5

Maintenance: 3/5

Utilities: 3/5

Warmth: 4/5

Wasn't too bad of a flat honestly, was a bit expensive for a 2 bedroom back then and a little dingy but had everything you needed and everything worked. The only thing that was weird was when I was wanting to move out (my flatmate decided to stay and find a person to fill in for me) they had told me that they actually only had my name in the contract as head tenant and my flatmate was not on the contract at all when we both signed the tenancy contract together. Then they raised their concern of having no females living in the flat which was a bit uncalled for, but they did eventually let my flatmate stay and find another flatmate. Just a weird and uncomfortable experience.

3/11 Knighton Road, Hillcrest, Hamilton

By: ayumic

04/10/2023

Moved in Jan 2020

Moved out Jul 2020

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5/5

Tenants paid $250/week

Area: 5/5

Maintenance: 5/5

Utilities: 5/5

Warmth: 5/5

It was a new build when I moved in so it was pretty nice, decent sized bedrooms and my shower was spacious (it's one of those flats where you rent a room and you have a shared kitchen) the common area was pretty small - there was no lounge but the decent sized kitchen made up for it and I guess everyone kept to themselves anyway :)

11 Joshua Lane, Hamilton East, Hamilton

By: meekkeeyy

04/10/2023

Moved in Feb 2017

Moved out Feb 2018

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4/5

Tenants paid $550/week

Area: 3/5

Maintenance: 4/5

Utilities: 5/5

Warmth: 4/5

This is a beautiful flat i loved living here

46 Galloway Street, Hamilton East, Hamilton

By: meekkeeyy

04/10/2023

Moved in Jul 2020

Moved out Aug 2021

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1/5

Tenants paid $440/week

Area: 5/5

Maintenance: 1/5

Utilities: 2/5

Warmth: 1/5

I despised living here. We moved in in 2020 and moved out in 2021. One morning I woke up to discover a hole in my ceiling with water pouring out of it. The leak was terrible and I called and texted the landlord a million times and at first she said she would said a plumber out and then never did. Then eventually she just stopped replying to me. Later when she did a house inspection she got mad at us for having a mould issue and said it was because we didn’t ventilate the house. i told her it was because of the leak in my bedroom and she ignored me. Also the house gets zero sun and is overall very cold to live in. Also the owners gave it the landlord special and they painted my plants white and painted over the fairy lights.

126A Firth Street, Hamilton East, Hamilton

By: meekkeeyy

10/09/2023

Moved in Feb 2018

Moved out Jan 2019

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3/5

Tenants paid $440/week

Area: 3/5

Maintenance: 2/5

Utilities: 3/5

Warmth: 3/5

the house is nice but it gets zero sunshine, and the neighbours don't like when you have parties