69% sales valuation accuracy
75% sales fee satisfaction
83% lettings valuation accuracy
53% lettings fee satisfaction
Apr 07,2015
Apr 07,2015
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Please think twice before using these agents!!! We recently attempted to buy a house in WB. House price was agreed. Due to the house having serious issues of damp/electrical and structural issues just to name a few defects, loan company put a retention on property of 5k.
Further issues were detected after we paid for our own full survey; issues with drains and aspestos garage detected, and structral issues detected! We further negotiated and reached an offer we were both happy with. This was then rejected the following day with no sensible reason other than vender now wants more money and two other parties have suddenly come forward with the the asking price!!! So offers were being considered when property was supposed to be sold to us stc!!! So having wasted months of our time, effort and money in getting surveys completed, the sellers decides they want near to the asking price! It seems that Frank INNES feel that this is ok and help facilitate this move by allowing other parties to view house. We were told if we up our offer than then sale with us can proceed!!! This to us was black mail and very poor practice and we stuck to our moral principals and said no, plus the house to us was not worth what they were asking considering the defects. . What really annoys and frustrates us is that we clearly asked Sharon Fretwell at Frank Innes that we would expect the seller within reason to reduce the price if major problems were detected. This was all verbally agreed. We are not even sure if our offer has been put forward to seller as Frank Innes have declined to show us if the final offer has been sent to seller!!!
Another thing which i need to point out is the so called independent financial adviser. We would not advise that you use them or their financial services at countrywide, they work very closely and sit in the same office so how they can can they claim to independent of each other i don't know!!! I have sat in the office and even heard a financial adviser telling the agent what money the buyer is good for!!!
So overall a very bad experience with Frank Innes and we can't believe they can get away with this kind of practice. This practice is illegal in Scotland and it should be here too. We lost £800 pounds, but i know others have lost more using these agents from the reviews we have read.
Another interesting thing to mention house is still on the market!!! What happen to those higher offers i wonder???
Further issues were detected after we paid for our own full survey; issues with drains and aspestos garage detected, and structral issues detected! We further negotiated and reached an offer we were both happy with. This was then rejected the following day with no sensible reason other than vender now wants more money and two other parties have suddenly come forward with the the asking price!!! So offers were being considered when property was supposed to be sold to us stc!!! So having wasted months of our time, effort and money in getting surveys completed, the sellers decides they want near to the asking price! It seems that Frank INNES feel that this is ok and help facilitate this move by allowing other parties to view house. We were told if we up our offer than then sale with us can proceed!!! This to us was black mail and very poor practice and we stuck to our moral principals and said no, plus the house to us was not worth what they were asking considering the defects. . What really annoys and frustrates us is that we clearly asked Sharon Fretwell at Frank Innes that we would expect the seller within reason to reduce the price if major problems were detected. This was all verbally agreed. We are not even sure if our offer has been put forward to seller as Frank Innes have declined to show us if the final offer has been sent to seller!!!
Another thing which i need to point out is the so called independent financial adviser. We would not advise that you use them or their financial services at countrywide, they work very closely and sit in the same office so how they can can they claim to independent of each other i don't know!!! I have sat in the office and even heard a financial adviser telling the agent what money the buyer is good for!!!
So overall a very bad experience with Frank Innes and we can't believe they can get away with this kind of practice. This practice is illegal in Scotland and it should be here too. We lost £800 pounds, but i know others have lost more using these agents from the reviews we have read.
Another interesting thing to mention house is still on the market!!! What happen to those higher offers i wonder???
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West Bridgford,Nottingham
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| Services | Valuation Accuracy | Fees Satisfaction | Min Price of property reviewed | Max Price of property reviewed |
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| Sales | 69% | 75% | £133,000 | £750,000 |
| Lettings | 83% | 53% | £350 | £1,275 |
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I would like to express my thanks and appreciation for Morgan who throughout the whole process she remained positive and truthful continually supporting myself through; at times; a difficult sale. Without Morgan I do not believe the sale would have proceeded to completion as she ...
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Jessi was absolutely amazing nothing was to much trouble for her she is so friendly and just a lovely person to be around when we met her no matter what time or day I contacted her she always replied she’s just great and we ...
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Jessi Pabla is awesome. I was a little nervous having to go to the office but after meeting with her made me relax. So friendly with a beautiful smile & reasuring. Felt as if I’ve known her before. Professional & very helpful right to the very ...
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May 28,2020
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Jessi has been amazing, keeping me well informed with timely updates regarding my rental application and always being positive and cheerful to speak with on the phone....
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Excellent professional service. We are very happy with the service. Jessi is very good, she found the tenants very quickly....
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Frank Innes Westbridgford Office, what a great team, fantastic communicators, willingness to assist second to none, always seeking to give the best advice or information relating to matters of concern, I’m very happy I’ve chosen Frank Innes yet again to re- let my ...
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I have recently used Frank Innes to sell a flat.
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Sep 12,2019
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Had a great experience throughout when Frank Innes managed the sale of our flat. Morgan went over and above in terms of keeping us up to date and chasing solicitors when required. Nothing was ever too much trouble. Cannot speak highly enough of the service ...
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Jul 17,2019
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We moved out of our rental with Frank Innes, West Bridgford on the 29th May 2019. The property has since been re-let but after chasing them multiple times in writing and over the phone, asking to hear something, ANYTHING in regards to our deposit we have ...
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Mar 31,2019
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The experience has been expensive and laborious from start to finish.
On signing for the house there was a multitude of random charges including £60 admin fees dished out for any reason under the sun.
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Fucking atrocious.
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Jun 28,2018
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My son has just had a similar experience. Be very careful with these people as I feel they are selling to the person who makes them the most money, not just the selling price commission, but extras like mortgage, conveyancing etc. Luckily I managed to contact the seller who confirmed some of my thoughts. Written without prejudice. ...
Apr 12,2018
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Avoid!!!
The property got took off the market as let agreed only for us to be told we needed a guarentor, we managed to get one and we all did our reference checks which to our surprise out the 3 of us only 1 actually went through ...
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The agent fees were ridiculous, its a big loss when they dont accept you but thats now money in there pocket so no wonder why they pretend you have the property when theu know you dont.
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Feb 22,2018
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The worse experience I've ever had with renting, moved in and wasn't even paint on the kitchen ceiling mouldy all over the staircase wall, had to redecorate half the house just to make it liveable, when I phoned up to get something repaired I was ...
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Jan 29,2018
Jan 29,2018
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Awful, awful service. My Estate agents, Frank Innes use countrywide as their maintenance service.
My boiler broke on the 8th January- Just the heating.
It is now the 26th January. To begin, a contracted maintenance company that countrywide use came to look at the boiler (...
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I'm in exactly the same boat with them! I have children under 5 and have been waiting since 5th January for maintenance to come and replace my leaking radiator! They left me for around 1 week without a boiler over Christmas with my children, we had to stay with family. There excuse it was the festive season" I last heard something 3 weeks ago from countrywide to say that it is due to be replaced the following week. Had to chase them up at the end of that week only to find out the landlord didn' ...
Oct 12,2017
Oct 12,2017
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AVOID! Ridiculously high agency fees for renting (almost 1000 for a couple). Wouldn't mind if the service was good. Service is terrible and very slow! Took them 4 months to quote us the deposit and still not sorted 6 months later. Trying to charge us for things that ...
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Very high!
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Feb 08,2017
Feb 08,2017
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I used this agent when selling my property and I was very unhappy with the their service. During the 12 week contract they only arranged 2 viewings, 1 of which I did myself and secured the sale from. When discussing with Jack Chambers he was more concerned about ...
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Given they only conducted 1 viewing the fees are not justified
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Sep 27,2016
Sep 27,2016
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Utterly astonishing fees!!! That were not made clear at all. £750 application fee!!! For a £700 pm house. What do they do print the tenancy agreement in gold? Landlords be aware I will not be renting the property I really wanted and as a great tenant the ...
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£750 application fee form £700 pm house
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They just tried to charge me £750 fees for a £550/ month rent house.
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Jan 22,2016
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Couldn't have had a better selling experience with Frank Innes, West Bridgford, though I must say that nearly all our dealings were with Jack Chambers, after initial negotiation with Charlene who was excellent. After a poor experience with Purplebricks, we switched to Frank Innes, had 3 ...
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Good - Fee less than other local agents.
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Avoid Frank Innes , Central Avenue like the plague.
Continually bad service with lack of communication between team members .
No updates from the branch re. viewings. All contact initiated by myself the vendor. The staff were always too busy to give a reply.
The phone was more often than not on answer phone.
The final straw for us was when eventually 10 months down the line when we had accepted an offer on our property they failed to submit the memorandum of sale to the solicitors.
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Apr 07,2015
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Please think twice before using these agents!!! We recently attempted to buy a house in WB. House price was agreed. Due to the house having serious issues of damp/electrical and structural issues just to name a few defects, loan company put a retention on ...
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Jan 22,2015
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What a terrible service!
We were very interested in (and excited about) buying a house from Frank Innes, West Bridgford.
After the viewing we were treated dismissively, with messages not being returned. The service became even worse, when we told them that we were intending ...
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What agent could do to change your mind?
-Return emails -Don't try and force buyers into using your services to sell a house by not backing offers on a vendors houseAttached Filesnbsp;
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