Nicholas Homes Maintenance

[stoop]

quote:Originally posted by davewalsh

Sorry about all the typos, at the end of the bottle of wine and I hit the 'send', rather than the 'preview' button by mistake.

Dave- you can always press the edit button and correct them. It's the one that looks a bit like a pencil - next to the little AOL man

[trebor]

Intersting comment Dave.  Looks as if a precedent has been set.  Nicholas have for 4+ years decided to operate their Maintenance business at a LOSS (knowlingly) without incresaing charges year on year to recover money - so surely they ACCEPT these losses and therfore WHY should owners have to foot the bill?

What do you think?  Would you pay someone MORE money for their poor management over 4+ years.  especially when they have not made any attempt adjust the accounts at the time.

[lmaddy]

C1 - We emplyee a maintenance company & pay a fee which includes what I have listed. We actually collect the maintenance money ourselves & run the budget. The maintance company Prestige pay their staff a fair wage (one of the main reasons we use them) & they pay all their staff insurances to the goverment including health. Result a rather jhard working dedicated team.
They offer an individual property maintenance service to property owners which cost £120 per year and they will pay your bills if you require this.

Not sure what draining down water is but no I don't think so.
Hope that helps

[villajadore]

To go back to the original question posted, we bought with Nicholas off plan and have used their services ever since. I have nothing but praise for them, especially Nurettin who,in the early days, could have simply dissapeared without offering ANY kind of maintenance but instead, chose to offer (what turned out to be) a loss making service.
Whilst Nicholas may not be perfect, what is??
For us, Nurettin and Nicholas delivered everything they said they would, when they said they would.
It may be true that the group is suffering at the moment, in this economic climate, its little surprise....
Given the opportunity, we would happily buy from Nurettin again.
John & Sue

[davewalsh]

Well, everyone is entitled to their opinion. I suspect you are in a very small minority here. I have had lots of grief from Nicholas Maintenance - including a major unresolved problem where they put BITUMEN felt over the top of the zinc roof flashings to cure a leak. Take a look at Brooklands 1 next time you are there, it looks an unsightly mess, if it hasn't melted in the summer heat or cracked with the frosts. In fact, my holidays to Hisaronu would not be complete without the daily or weekly trek up the hill. The idea that they didn't want to offer a maintenance service is a novel one, no sooner had I signed the contract to buy than I was presented with a maintenance contract to sign. They have simply mis-manged and misjudged the effort and costs required to run such a service and they chose to take our money for four straight years, gradually running up a deficit on the complex apartments - despite having this pointed out to them on several occasions. They have tried to recover the money by scaling back the quality of the service over time, a tactic that has now lost them a lot of credibility. I bought the package and would not have signed on if the maintenance wasn't available. After being persuaded by other owners this year to 'give them another chance', my efforts this winter will be focused on persuading the other owners in our complex to find an alternative to Nicholas, if anyone has any suggestions or previous expeience please feel free to e-mail me.

[Harmless]

I just wondered if this topic should be on a site for Nicholas owners only.
I know that other companies are hoping to obtain the management for Nicholas sites and it could be that some 'stirring' is going on.  Of course, that may well not be the case, but, it seems, that whenever Nicholas are mentioned, it seems to be mainly negative posts.

[GocekF]

Hi
New to this site but have been reading through the various comments in regards to Nicholas Managemant. We purchased a villa from them last year in Gocek and was sold a wonderful dream in how they manage and support your property. Since day one we have had nothing but grief, but like many were convinced to stay with them this year that has to have been the biggest mistake I have ever made. I have had nothing but problems, a pool man who knows nothing about pools, cleaners who turn up to do departure cleans for my guests at 8am 4hrs before they leave, the list goes on. I will not be using them again next year so if anybody knows a good managemant company who cover Gocek there information would be much appriciated

[Harmless]

Oops

[Coniston1]

So like Villajadore I am going to put my life on the line and say something positive about NGI. We bought a 3 bed villa in Archways (Koca Calis) 2 years ago and it transformed our lives. Yes we have had some problems along the way but who has not had problems when they have bought property even in the UK. Incompetant estate agents, bent solisitors, time wasters, miss represented propertys, shall I go on? With regard to this cash call for maintanance do what we are doing on Archways and ask them how the arrived at there figures and dont pay until you have a detailed breakdown of where all the money has gone.

[Mishy]

We are not on a complex and have not been asked for extra monies. I will say the standard has dropped this season, although when we have called maintenance, things have been sorted .