Villas - Meadows (Meadows 4 also) - help need urgent advice

Just wondered how you were getting on, AussiePup? I hope you are re-settled nicely in Meadows 9 and we can finally meet for a cup of tea when I get back to the sandpit! Still staying with friends, well... At their place. They are in uk. May have villa round corner from where we were but haven't sign anything yet, have only sent scanned copy of deposits etc to agent until we see contract and LL deed to property. See how we go. Did similar last week but LL signed with someone else just as my husband was going to drop off cheques and sign contract! Ppl just out for the money here! It's so disappointing.

we have found one in M9 we are reasonablly happy with but are reluctant to put deposit down until we see people there fixing the issues :) LL seems to be reasonable though when we met him. Also expanding the search now to MotorCity GC and Ranches and Victory heights. Trying to weigh things up... moving out of this area means we could lose our maid (she left her previous family because they moved out of this area - however it was to barsha they moved and she did not feel safe walking around the area and no shops close by - at least either of the communities above still have all that)... Also lose our Gardener who is a lovely man. he looks after the garden very well and he loves our dogs and the kids - he shows my son how to rake up the leaves and he happily goes and helps. Its so very cute. Moving out of the area = newer house (potentially), fingers crossed less maintenance issues (or as big issues like we've experienced here) and a community pool closer by to use... hmm I am still thinking top option of staying around here would be easier. Just wish ppl respected houses here and looked after them instead of letting them get warn and broken.

its ok, DH wasn't up for it. Said it didn't feel right. We went to look at another around the corner here in Meadows 9 but again believe it or not that villa also has a burst water tank!!!!!!!! the man hole to it was open so we had a look and couldn't believe what we were seeing. We quite liked it and considered giving deposit today (time is of the essence for us) and thank goodness we saw that!!! We just haven't been having any luck here. Its so disappointing. Our circumstances are we have to move out Thursday... and are homeless. We've been burnt twice with burst pipes and having a massive water bill on our hands which both land lords from the different villas have refused to pay. We are just really worried about choosing the wrong place again and getting stuck with yet another nasty maintenance bill / issues. I think we need to take both LL's to RERA but I am intimidated by the whole process and not sure where to go with it. I've looked up properties in Arabian Ranches on dubizzle but most available are out of our budget but those that are available are all managed through MF!!!!!!! They should be out of business! I can't believe they are still functioning!!!!! We have a friend who has kindly offered us to stay in their villa until we find something but it means putting our stuff in storage and paying for that too. Just another expense we really don't need right now. :( we would be so far ahead savings wise if it wasn't for paying out all these maintenance problems in the properties we are renting. We did a rough caculation and if you count last house burst water pipe and then this house with all its horror maintenance we have repaired we are looking at over 50K AED we would have been able to send home to pay off our own house in Australia. just so stressed and at a loss of what to do. Neither DH or I are thinking straight and are reluctant to make any decisions on another rental. <sigh>