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Do not rent your room here, you will get SCAMMED!!!

Unfortunately, I had a very disappointing experience with this company.

After renting a room in Valencia, I was informed after moving out that my entire €500 security deposit would be withheld. The reasons given were general claims about the condition of the communal areas, alleged damage, cleanliness, noise and other issues in the property.

I strongly disagree with these claims. I left my own room clean and in good condition, and I have video evidence of the condition in which I left it. I was also never provided with concrete evidence showing that I personally caused any of the alleged damage or costs.

There was one party during my stay, for which I accepted a €50 fine. However, I do not believe it is reasonable to withhold the remaining €450 based on general problems in a shared house with 14 tenants, without providing a clear breakdown of the alleged damage, invoices, photographs or evidence linking these costs to me personally.

What makes the situation even more confusing is that another tenant who lived there with me and was involved in the same activities did receive her deposit back.

I have asked the company several times for a clear and documented explanation of exactly what I allegedly damaged and what the costs are, but so far I have not received a satisfactory breakdown.

I have now involved Spotahome to help resolve the dispute.

I am sharing my experience because I believe future tenants should be aware of how my deposit dispute has been handled. I hope the company will still resolve the situation fairly and transparently.

HONTEUX !!!! À FUIR !!!
Cette agence s'est empoché 2 324,50 € (pour 15 nuits) pour un logement qui était INSALUBRE.
Visite de l'appartement refusée, photos mensongères, paiement intégral exigé avant remise des clés. À l'arrivée : odeur de moisi, humidité partout, fuites d'eau (douche, lavabo), meubles trempés et moisis, plein d'eau par terre, serrure cassée, salle de bain inutilisable, moisissures sur les murs. Le plafond s'est effondré pendant la nuit à cause des infiltrations d'eau.
J'ai été obligée de quitter le logement en urgence après seulement 15 nuits. Cela revient à plus de 155 € par nuit pour vivre dans un logement digne d'un taudis. Comme si perdre 2 324,50 € ne suffisait pas, j'ai dû trouver un autre logement en urgence, déménager seule mes affaires et gérer une situation invivable dans un pays étranger. Je ne parle même pas des conséquences psychologiques : stress, angoisse.
Daniela m'a promis un remboursement à plusieurs reprises. Je n'ai jamais reçu un seul centime. Appels ignorés, excuses, mensonges et aucune solution.
Aucune prise de responsabilité. Aucun geste commercial. Aucun remboursement. La pire expérience locative de ma vie.
NE DONNEZ PAS UN EURO À CETTE AGENCE.

Muy céntrico

nice locations, u might find their prices attractive, but since their offers are mainly short term with alot, i mean ALOT of hidden fees, the prices become terrible, even more expensive than the avg Airbnb.
the cleaning service doesn't show up most of the time, and even when they do, they just mop the floor, they don't clean closets/drawers or even the balocny
some places in the bathroom accumulated massive amount of dusts and oils it was untouchable.
team was very unprofessional they ignored my emails, whatsapp messages, and even phone calls to return my deposit. I had to contact the website I booked the room through in order for me to get my deposit back.
not recommended

If you want to get lied to straight in your face choose this company! They decided to charge us for a broken window, which they initially said would be for their cost, then still put in the portal for us to pay and even more € than they initially said, then said they would remove it but never ended up doing it. However, according to their own contract, there needs to be an inspection for them to be allowed to charge the tenant. After many e-mails they came up with the lie that they inspected it and it was our fault the window broke because we had it open in a week of hard wind and storms, which you can literally look up, and every weather websites shows there was a maximum of 2 Bft. The window was extra fragile due to the black mold that was all over it, but they didn't respond to all of these points because they knew they were in wrong. When we said this to them they said the case was closed. They also charged us for an extractor hood because a tiny light switch broke. When we asked them about this, they again lied to us and said we agreed to split the cost, which we didn't and when we asked for this agreement they also couldn't give proof, and this cost-splitting is also not even an option according to the contract we signed. Besides, once again they went against their own contract and didn't do an inspection to prove tenant fault. When we asked them about this, they came up with the lie that they did do an inspection and did a serious allegation; they detected 'incorrect use', but once again they couldn't prove this because as far as we know we didn't let anyone into our apartment for this... It also would be very hard to break the tiny light switch by incorrect use or even misuse, because how do you break a light switch smaller than your finger? It just happened by turning on the light. It also took weeks to months for stuff to get repaired, including the window during a time in which it was very cold outside, which made it very cold in our apartment. We are now, almost 2 months after moving out still working on a legal process to get our money back because since they have decided 'case closed', they have been ignoring our e-mails, calls and texts. We have given them enough opportunities to resolve this amicably, but unfortunately this didn't work. So, if you want to have to be in a constant state of stress because you need to keep checking you're not getting unjustified charges and be gaslit and manipulated in your face and not getting taken seriously when you tell them you will take legal action, I would recommend this company!
Other than the deposit problem at the end of our stay, the apartment was disgusting when we arrived, we ended up staying in a hotel the first night because we still had so much to clean. There are also many other things that broke during our 6-month stay, which just shows how bad the quality of the apartment was, especially considering we have lived in 3 other apartments the last 3,5 years and nothing has ever broken in those apartments over all these years. The communication with HelpHousing has always been horrible, I would often stay home for hours waiting for them because they told me they would come for something that needed to be fixed, and then they ended up not showing up, causing me to waste an entire day. On top of that, their English is not good, leading to many miscommunications from their side. I have offered to communicate in Spanish with them, but they would always end up switching back to Spanish, which shows their unprofessionalism; clients are not there to practice your English on.

THE WORST.

They will always find ways to charge you more! Hidden fees everywhere, from day 1 to last day. Even when I left they added a random 100 euros. They canceled my room 2 weeks before my arrival (when I had already signed the contract and pay the tenant fee of 1000 euros). They didn't provided any help finding a new one. My room was disgusting!! Mold on the ceiling, walls so dirty, main light wasn't working (took 3 months to repair). Bathroom was covered in mold as well. One day, they randomly add 4 people in our appartment for 1 month (because theirs was broken or something) which made our electricity bill SO HIGH and they never charged them. The cleaning lady stole our miror and multi charge (yes, with evidence). So much more happen, just don't do it.

Book anywhere else if you can!!!

Don't rent a room via HelpHousing. I had an agreement about a room in Madrid. Everything was allright. Untill HelpHousing decided to renovate the building. I already booked a flight which i couldn't cancel. I could not stay in the room and had to chose between searching for a room via another service (which was already late), or if i wanted a comparable room i had to pay an additional 120 euros per month, which i could enter more than a week later after my arrival in Madrid.

I accepted the last option because the room market had become really scarce. I did not receive any compensation for de inconvinience. Neither did I get any compensation for the days I had to arrange my own residence.

To make it even worse they wanted me to pay another 240 euros for deposit and agency fee. They don't recognise their own mistakes and won't help you in a reasonable way.

Oliphah is muy bueno!

Excelente estadía! La habitación muy cómoda y el piso precioso, súper bien equipado. La atención desde el principio fue maravillosa. Me encantó y es por eso que recomiendo hospedarse con helphousing.

Muy contento con la experiencia. Siempre respondieron mis consultas de la mejor manera, y fueron varias jeje. Mi habitación era muy cómoda y luminosa. Los espacios comunes en general muy limpios y agradables.

Llegar a un país completamente nuevo y muy lejano de casa, a vivir con desconocidos, sonaba a un gran reto, pero helpHousing hizo sinceramente que fuera mucho más fácil y divertido.

Muy contenta con sus servicios. La estancia agradable y cómoda. Sin ninguna duda repetiría.

Me ha encantado el piso, la gente súper agradable, el piso súper limpio y en muy buena zona. Muchas gracias por todo 🥰

Muy buena estancia.

Todo perfecto, majisimos y con cualquier cosa que he necesitado m han ayudado super rapido. Lo recomiendo bastante

Nice rooms nice service.

Muy buena estancia, no he tenido ningún problema. Con alguna duda con el piso, he llamado al teléfono de contacto y me la han resuelto sin ningún problema. Son todos muy majos y compresivos. Si alguna vez lo necesito, volvería seguro y se lo recomendaría a todos mis amigos.

They charge way to much for what you get. They also charge you bills that you didn't even knew existed. They never send a receipt so you can't check wether it's real or fake. Disgusting company.

The rent is incredibly high for the rooms they offer (580 euro for the room I had in Barcelona which was 5 square meters). I don't know how they have the audacity to even think about those prices to be honest. Problem is the rooms look much bigger on the website when you book it, probably all pictures taken with wide angle as well as lying about the actual square meters of the room (as an architect, I can quite easily review that). Another problem was how dirty and slightly broken everything was in the apartment (in all of the spaces, from the floor to the ceiling to the furniture or other items). Everything is in bad condition, yet not bad enough to be declared unusable or dysfunctional and for the apartment manager to replace it. The apartment manager of the apartment I lived in was terrible in terms of communication - she sent lots spam messages almost daily on whatsapp, yet when we had major problems in the apartment and contacted her to resolve them (as it was stipulated in the contract it was her duty to resolve them within 10 days) she completely ignored the messages (even for 2 weeks, longer than the contract even allowed her). I have been living without hot water for 2 months when she decided she wants to finally fix the issue, without internet for one month, the emergency contact didn't answer any of the times I tried to contact it (about 3 different occasions).

I have lived in one flat, which is under agency Help housing. First time, I had to change the room in first week, because in the room 2 in the flat on Av. de la Constitucio in Valencia, there has not been fixed issue with one window - space between glass and broken blinds, it causes extremous noise from the cars and cold entry in automn/winter time. Agency continue to rent this room (and again increased the price) without fixing these issues, what I consider it as scame behavior from Help housing, trying to be more profitable without having efforts to deliver at least basic quality of living. I see here as good only quick answer of fleet manager, but if any maintance is needed, you need to wait weeks it is fixed, or finally it is not fixed and hidden like nothing would happen before. Admin fee on level of monthly rent (almostly around 400 EUR) is fee just for opening contract and your account in their system. Imagine how much time take these contract procedures and if this price is really customer fair, if on the market you find service for opening contract starting on 50 EUR?