0% lettings valuation accuracy
33% lettings fee satisfaction
Oct 06,2011
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Moving On is categorically the worst agency I have ever had the displeasure of dealing with. From the very beginning of the renting process they were rude, disrespectful and completely shady -- they insisted we didn't need to do an inventory, even though law dictates that's required, and although we took photographs of the [MANY] things that were wrong with the flat they will surely claim those problems were our fault. I have been counting the days till I can move out.
The situation has been made even worse by having possibly the most incompetent landlord that walks this earth; and when he is out of the country (which he often is), I have to deal with the agency. My ceiling leaked from the instant I moved in; it took days of hassling Moving On to get things taken care of. (11 months later, the ceiling has started leaking again.) Our garden door has never closed properly; our landlord entered out flat without telling us and stuck a bit of junk on there as a cheap fix (it still doesn't close). Our dishwasher had never worked, but when we found out it was leaking and asked our landlord to replace it, he replied that we didn't need a dishwasher and simply removed it. We had mice in the flat because it's on the ground floor and is shoddily built ex-council housing (they had visited the previous tenants as well); our landlord accused us of being dirty tenants and said 'put your dishes away, then the mice will go away'. It took days of repeated phone calls to finally have him agree to pay for an exterminator. As you can see, the list goes on and on.
Moral of the story: if there's an Inslington/Hoxton estate agency you DON'T deal with, it's Moving On. And avoid the landlords they associate themselves with. They are inevitably bad news.
The situation has been made even worse by having possibly the most incompetent landlord that walks this earth; and when he is out of the country (which he often is), I have to deal with the agency. My ceiling leaked from the instant I moved in; it took days of hassling Moving On to get things taken care of. (11 months later, the ceiling has started leaking again.) Our garden door has never closed properly; our landlord entered out flat without telling us and stuck a bit of junk on there as a cheap fix (it still doesn't close). Our dishwasher had never worked, but when we found out it was leaking and asked our landlord to replace it, he replied that we didn't need a dishwasher and simply removed it. We had mice in the flat because it's on the ground floor and is shoddily built ex-council housing (they had visited the previous tenants as well); our landlord accused us of being dirty tenants and said 'put your dishes away, then the mice will go away'. It took days of repeated phone calls to finally have him agree to pay for an exterminator. As you can see, the list goes on and on.
Moral of the story: if there's an Inslington/Hoxton estate agency you DON'T deal with, it's Moving On. And avoid the landlords they associate themselves with. They are inevitably bad news.
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79 Pitfield Street
Islington,London
Greater London
N1 6BT
020 7336 8882
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| Services | Valuation Accuracy | Fees Satisfaction | Min Price of property reviewed | Max Price of property reviewed |
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| Lettings | 0% | 33% | £665 | £1,517 |
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Terrible agency, run away!
I did everything to leave my flatshare according to the contract and having asked them what to do. As it happened fast and before their holidays, they pressured me with invented reasons to justify to wait the end of their holidays ...
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Hi Charlotte, I had to take my landlord to court to get my deposit back, it took me over a year and a half to finally get it back. This agency does no vetting, and doesn't care when the landlords take money from tenants. i'm happy to contact you if you want further info. ...
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No deposit protection scheme.
I've only just resolved a year long legal dispute with the landlord represented by this agency. They were less than helpful during my tenancy, the property was badly in need of repairs, the water pressure was minimal with the shower being ...
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I was reviewing my new estate agency and I came across some of the reviews about our old agency Moving On. From my own personal experience I found them to be very helpful, professional and totally impartial in terms of any bias if there were ...
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Used Moving On in 2012. About four months into the tenancy we had a surprise visit from a debt collection agent. It turned out the landlady was seriously in arrears with her mortgage payments on the property and she didn't even have permission to let. A ...
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As a representative from Moving On it's dissapointing to read negative anoynomous reviews where accusers can leave unverifiable comments with no potential for us to take legal action if false or misleading in nature, has this website been provided with any legal evidence that these events occurred??? For all we know these comments could be left by rival agencies or tenants who have been penalised deposit for causing damage etc and who would like to seek some form of revenge by smearing our good ...
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We used moving on in 2011/2012 to rent a property in the Old Street area. We have just ended a three month battle to get our deposit returned from our landlord there, during which time MovingOn provided no help or assistance, they simply told us 'this ...
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