Truly shocking experience
I don’t normally leave bad reviews as I like to give people the benefit of the doubt but this has been the poorest and most shocking experience i’ve ever had with an estate agent… and that’s saying A LOT in London.
I won’t name names but the experience I had with this agent was unprofessional and has cost us a a lot of time spent and a property that we really liked due to poor management.
It started off by the agent cancelling each viewing we had on the morning of the viewing two weekends in a row, and then changing viewing times multiple times in the day after we had once again rearranged.
Then we received false information on the offer that the landlord would accept and caught the agent lying multiple times. For instance he said that the property was vacant for 3 months and didn’t get much viewings, then after the viewing he claimed that he has multiple offers so we must be quick to pay a deposit and sign a contract. Makes no sense?
I was transparent about our moving timeframes, which was a very standard one month notice period. The agent decided to tell the landlord that we’d move in two weeks time and said that if we needed a month he’d be able to convince him as he is ‘very convincing’…
Once I spoke to my landlord and confirmed moving times (which was one month as I stated), the agent tried to trick me into paying a deposit and signing a contract starting in two weeks that would have locked me in for paying the whole month’s rent even after I had informed him of the moving date. It was a really sleazy move and someone else who is more trusting would have fallen for it.
After clarifying I could not pay anything before the moving date is agreed, he came back to me to say that the landlord was disappointed in me shifting the move in date and wanted someone who would move in two weeks.
I’m not sure if this individual has ever worked in this industry before, but a one month notice period is standard. A true professional would have known to advise the landlord that it is unlikely he’d now find someone else to move in two weeks, which would leave him with someone moving even later than our expected date… additionally, his lack of transparency with the landlord likely left him believing that we were unreliable tenants which was not the case at all- I was very honest from day one.
The advice was poor, the management was chaotic and I was almost tricked into a deposit and contract that would have cost me thousands.
All in all, this process left me with a lot of wasted time and frankly has really upset me as I did quite like the place and put in a lot of work to make it happen… only for it fall through due to an unprofessional agent that doesn’t know how to manage relationships.
I hope this person gets the training he needs to be better at his job and others don’t have the same experience.
13. helmikuuta 2024
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