“I would avoid at all costs!...”
1 Star Review
Jan 11,2021
By:
'Danielle'
Jan 11,2021
Branch: Ashford, 45-47 High Street
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode: TN25
Branch: Ashford, 45-47 High Street
Lettings (as a Tenant)
Postcode: TN25
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I would avoid at all costs! What a truly awful and unprofessional estate agents! The only estate agent in our 11 years of renting to fail us. The lack of checks and help they did considering we paid for referencing is terrible. We offered our guarantors information prior to any checks as we said we will likely fail due to being self employed. They never took this information which we found incredibly strange as any other estate agent would want this information. Referencing took place, and my partner failed due to a CCJ he knew nothing about. Our current property we only let 6 month's ago and passed referencing with flying colours with a guarantor in place so this was a total shock considering the CCJ had been active since 2018. We've rented 3 properties since this CCJ has been present and not once failed and been refused a property. We explained this and said this needs to be looked into as how on earth did we pass 6 month's ago. We also offered to clear the CCJ but they requested a certificate to say it's been cleared within a week. This was not possible during these times as we phoned the courts who explained even if you pay it in full today it will take 6/8 weeks for the certificate the landlord/agent requires. We told them this, and begged for them to reference our guarantor, but they still refused to do this. We emailed and asked why our guarantor wasn't referenced as it's standard practice and the email I received back was incredibly rude and sarcastic given the situation. Our guarantor wasn't referenced because my partner failed. If he passed then they would reference the guarantor... This does not make sense what so ever and when I challenged this and said a guarantor is there if referencing fails my email was ignored. It seems it was this company's way of make money during these already hard times which is awful to do. The money isnt the real issue though, it's the lack of checks and misleading information they have provided. They claimed the landlord would not be able to accept my partner because of his CCJ due to insurance, but asked us to pay £5700 upfront and all would be fine. This also doesn't sit right with me as how would having a CCJ still in place bypass on the landlords insurance that they claimed would not be possible with a CCJ in place?!
Again, this was challenged and ignored which speaks volumes! I can whole heartedly say I will never use this company again and will do my very best to warn others!
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