This Landlord gave us 3 of his properties and not 10 on a commercial lease and later pretented we were acting as his agent only. The properties were in complete run down condition which required extensive refurbishments. He agreed to a fixed term of 5 years and then after about 7 months when We had invested around over £30,000 in bringing all properities to a livable standard, spent on building works, white goods, furnitures etc, the landlord decided to sell the property looking that his property values had increased considerably. We sent him invoices and receipts of the works we carried out by recorded post. He refused to pay us even a penny towards the works. He then offered us a 1% selling fee hereby asking for further services from us. When we refused to accept his terms which were unreasonable as the 1% he was offereing us didnt even cover our investment yet alone asking us to give him a sales service all included in the 1%, he tooks the properties by force without giving us any notice of intention and now benefits from all our hard works. Took rents directly from the tenants and changed the locks to the property.

Even today his tenants use our furnitures, white goods etc for which he didnt contribute a penny towards.

We dont recommend this landlord to any other agent, be carefull especially when a landlord brags about having 10 properties and "uses" other peoples moneys for his own pleasure.
Makes promises and doesnt fulfil.

We are a fairly small business compared to other Estate Agents and in this tough market try and make an honest living. However, this landlord, knowing all this, He has caused our business so much loss it hurts to see him commenting on these sites pretending he is a saint.

Think about it... How can you let someone owe you £30,000 in rent for 3 properties. Was he sleeping.
Obviously there's much more to his story and only when you go deeper into things, you will then realise the truth.