“This is the words estate agent I have ever had. ......”
1 Star Review
Nov 06,2012
By:
'Dontlikecountrywide'
Nov 06,2012
Branch: Canterbury, 79 Castle Street
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: No
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Branch: Canterbury, 79 Castle Street
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This is the words estate agent I have ever had. Unbelievably rude, useless to get hold of and nil quality of service. They try to squeeze every penny where ever possible, and the customer is never right. I would advise landlord not to use this ...
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The agent could have done everything the opposite of how they have done, in which case this would be the best agency in the world.
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“We have had a terrible experience with this company. They ......”
1 Star Review
Oct 29,2012
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'Bristol'
Oct 29,2012
Branch: Bristol, 108 Whiteladies Road
Services: Lettings (as a Landlord)
Would you recommend?: No
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Branch: Bristol, 108 Whiteladies Road
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We have had a terrible experience with this company. They lied to us outright about a number of issues, never paid us the rent on time and often not the correct amount, failed to answer basic emails or critical ones. We had to chase them ...
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See above. A disgraceful, unprofessional, unethical service from beginning to end.
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“We were, to begin with, with Kinghams at our property ......”
1 Star Review
Oct 24,2012
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'Carley'
Oct 24,2012
Branch: Bournemouth, 113 Old Christchurch Road
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: No
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Branch: Bournemouth, 113 Old Christchurch Road
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We were, to begin with, with Kinghams at our property and they were fantastic, unfortunately kinghams shut down and we have been passed from pillar to post and eventually we have ended up with CountryWide. Since the moment they took over we have had nothing ...
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“We have let out our property through Countrywide Lettings since ......”
5 Star Review
Oct 24,2012
By:
'Lewis'
Oct 24,2012
Branch: Oxford, 14 Market Square
Services: Lettings (as a Landlord)
Would you recommend?: Yes
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Branch: Oxford, 14 Market Square
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We have let out our property through Countrywide Lettings since late 2008 in Bicester. In this time we have had 2 tenants and they do find good quality and relaible tennats. We manage the property ourselves on a day to day basis but at contract renewal time ...
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“I have recently tried to take a Property from this ......”
1 Star Review
Oct 10,2012
By:
'Chris'
Oct 10,2012
Branch: Guildford, 172 High Street
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: No
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Branch: Guildford, 172 High Street
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I have recently tried to take a Property from this agency. First of all, the agency fees was note mentioned to me, even I asked for the same over Phone. They told me that they would let me know later. Once I got the good ...
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What agent could do to change your mind?
First of all tell the truth upfront. Secondly provide some compensation, in case they fail to provide property on rent even after agreeing for the same.
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“We have been at our rented property with Countrywide for 2 ......”
1 Star Review
Oct 08,2012
By:
'Keith'
Oct 08,2012
Branch: Durham, 15 Elvet Bridge
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: No
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Branch: Durham, 15 Elvet Bridge
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We have been at our rented property with Countrywide for 2 years. In that time we have had excellent dealings with the landlady and do not really have an issue with the Durham office as they are pleasant to deal with.
However it is Countrywide itself ...
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What agent could do to change your mind?
Countrywide should be more transparent and reveal ALL charges at the outset of the tenancy. Also WHY is there such an exhorbitant fee every time the tenancy is renewed. All it takes is a printing of a form and it signed, a 5 minute task for which a moderate fee of ‚£20 would be more apt if anything at all.
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“Have you ever heard of the saying " Customer is the ......”
1 Star Review
Oct 03,2012
By:
'MARC'
Oct 03,2012
Branch: Guildford, 172 High Street
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: No
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Have you ever heard of the saying " Customer is the king". Well in the guildford (high street) branch of Mann countrywide, there is only one king and that is Andrea King, a woman who will give you no respect and will treat you like garbage.
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The Agent must understand that the customer is a tenant. A branch manager like Andrea does not seem to have the business sense to understand who is and isn't a customer. A customer has the right to choose a service and the right to exit from the service when there is a need to. People like Andrea have left a indelible mark on my impression of letting agencies which needless to say remains negative. If she had displayed patience and politeness in her dealings with me, I would have been less stressed and my impression of them wold have been positive. But sadly this woman's behavior leaves me in bitter taste.
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“Seriously please DO NOT use their services even though how ......”
1 Star Review
Sep 21,2012
By:
'Fkoffee'
Sep 21,2012
Branch: Sutton, 54 High Street
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: No
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Branch: Sutton, 54 High Street
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Seriously please DO NOT use their services even though how much appealing the property is they advertised. They take loads of cash upfront and at the time of any neccessary administrative services they don't fulfill any of those obligations. They say please reach the landlord ...
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“My wife and I decided towards the end of 2011 that ......”
5 Star Review
Sep 11,2012
By:
'Mohammed'
Sep 11,2012
Branch: Guildford, 172 High Street
Services: Lettings (as a Landlord)
Would you recommend?: Yes
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Branch: Guildford, 172 High Street
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My wife and I decided towards the end of 2011 that we planned to move. We decided we wanted to rent out our existing home and were advised to contact many of the lettings agents in Guildford. I think we met nearly all of them and ...
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“I am a landlord and approached Mann & Countrywide in Strood. ......”
1 Star Review
Sep 11,2012
By:
'Colleen'
Sep 11,2012
Services: Lettings (as a Landlord)
Would you recommend?: No
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I am a landlord and approached Mann & Countrywide in Strood. They have recently found a tenant but no contracts have been signed but only the Terms of Business.
I was told that I have to pay £600 fee to them but I am disputing this because ...
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“Absolutely disgusted with the lack of professionality at CoUNTrywide's Gateshead ......”
1 Star Review
Sep 07,2012
By:
'Jeffercake'
Sep 07,2012
Branch: Doncaster, 26 Hallgate
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: No
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Branch: Doncaster, 26 Hallgate
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Absolutely disgusted with the lack of professionality at CoUNTrywide's Gateshead call centre. They have to date lost three of our emails, one handwritten letter and apparently they dont have a record of any phone call we have made to them!
We are now in dispute ...
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What agent could do to change your mind?
In order to make us recommend CoUNTrywide to people, they should do the following:
Not lie
Take records
Not be biased towards the landlords just because they are providing them with a wage
Not talk to you on the phone like you're a moron
Do what they said they would
Ring back when they say they will instead of forgetting
Doncaster shouldnt tell us to ring Gateshead, for Gateshead to eff everything up and tell us to deal with Doncaster
They should have given us the ‚£410 out of the ‚£650 that WAS NOT in dispute, straight away (we havent received a penny after three weeks)
Learn their arse from their elbow.
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“Since we have moved into our property with Countrywide we ......”
1 Star Review
Sep 03,2012
By:
'VeryUnhappyCustomer'
Sep 03,2012
Branch: Bristol, 108 Whiteladies Road
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: No
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Since we have moved into our property with Countrywide we have been consistently disgusted with the company mainly with their customer service and their hidden costs. The customer service was so appalling it made us frightened to call them up because we always ended up ...
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Cut out the hidden costs, teach their staff people skills and focus on customer service.
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“I can advise that this company is expensive, with tenancy ......”
1 Star Review
Aug 14,2012
By:
'Allwood'
Aug 14,2012
Services: Lettings (as a Landlord)
Would you recommend?: No
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I can advise that this company is expensive, with tenancy renewal fees of £125 EACH for tenant and landlords. and management fees of £72.00 + vat per month!!!!! I found it was getting to much , so I decided to manage the property myself. I rang Frank inns to ...
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They could reduce the cancellation fee from ‚£600.00 to ‚£200.00
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“Awful customer service, almost as bad as a budget airline ......”
1 Star Review
Aug 06,2012
By:
'BGibb'
Aug 06,2012
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: No
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Awful customer service, almost as bad as a budget airline with respect to the hidden fees, no communication skills whatsoever.
We have been letting a flat for the past year in the Glasgow area and have received nothing but stress from Countrywide. Our boiler has ...
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What agent could do to change your mind?
Improve customer service including tone and general niceties when conversing with customer. Actually respond to phonecalls/messages/requests.
And SO much more...
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“i am a former tenant of a property in waslsall ......”
1 Star Review
Aug 06,2012
By:
'c'
Aug 06,2012
Branch: Walsall, 131 Lichfield Street
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: No
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Branch: Walsall, 131 Lichfield Street
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i am a former tenant of a property in waslsall myself and my partner viewd this property in july 2011 and where talked into believe that it was going to be our ideal first home together the staff where absolutly fantastic in branch and we could ...
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never again will we ever use countrywide residential lettings worst agents about
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“Couuntrywide, from the moment of dealing with them, have been ......”
2 Star Review
Jun 28,2012
By:
'DancingKlown'
Jun 28,2012
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: No
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Couuntrywide, from the moment of dealing with them, have been nothing but trouble. We were in our first house for five months and because of terrible neighbours we had to move to another property, losing most our previous deposit for things that were not our ...
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“Since bridgefords joined countrywide, the service became awful, Fees increased, ......”
1 Star Review
Jun 14,2012
By:
'Sick'
Jun 14,2012
Branch: Washington, Unit Z
First Floor
The Galleries
Services: Lettings (as a Landlord)
Would you recommend?: No
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Branch: Washington, Unit Z
First Floor
The Galleries
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Since bridgefords joined countrywide, the service became awful, Fees increased, charge tenant and landlords both for admin fees. Do not attend check in and check outs and tell lies about rents, tenants, repairs.
Bridgefords Gateshead stall are all incompetent and particularly their branch manager, he ...
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“hired Frank innes to mange the letting of our property ......”
1 Star Review
Jun 11,2012
By:
'radha'
Jun 11,2012
Branch: Nottingham, 65/66 Long Row
Services: Lettings (as a Landlord)
Would you recommend?: No
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Branch: Nottingham, 65/66 Long Row
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hired Frank innes to mange the letting of our property and received the most awful service and had to inform them about the tenant's intention to move out, take a final inventry, give them the tenant's numbers and email id...in all most incompetent fleecers
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“We are moving from our property and the management company ......”
1 Star Review
May 30,2012
By:
'Boobear'
May 30,2012
Branch: Southampton, 38 Portsmouth RoadWoolston
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: No
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Branch: Southampton, 38 Portsmouth RoadWoolston
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We are moving from our property and the management company instructed Morris Dibben to rent the property out.
We left the keys to our rented property with Morris Dibben. After recent letter drop by the police, stating there were break in's in the area, we ...
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Agent was incompetent; I used to be an estate agent, worked in lettings and run my own estate and lettings agency. The service and attitude is one I have never encountered at any other estate agents or lettings, even other Countrywide offices.
To improve the agent in question must, set up basic training, put basic procedures in place, oversee the first months training.
To leave someone in this state and to respond with prove it, is wholly unprofessional, inadequate and no sense of customer service.
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“I can only agree wholeheartedly with others comments.You prepare ......”
1 Star Review
May 17,2012
By:
'minotaur2012'
May 17,2012
Services: Lettings (as a Landlord)
Would you recommend?: No
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I can only agree wholeheartedly with others comments.
You prepare to ring with a problem, you have the paperwork available to hand, and you ring and are put through to a charming lady who promises to look at the problem and will ¢â‚¬Å“ring you back¢â‚¬Â¦¢â‚¬Â
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“There was not one particular member of staff that we ......”
1 Star Review
May 14,2012
By:
'Disgusted'
May 14,2012
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: No
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There was not one particular member of staff that we found to be incompetent. Just the entire company as a whole were completely useless when it came to dealing with problems with the property and corresponding with any staff member proved to be near impossible. ...
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What agent could do to change your mind?
Agents could have been more efficient when dealing with problems that could potentially be harmful to tenants.
Corresponding with tenants is VITAL! Don't wait for tenants to follow up on problems they have already complained about. Give deposit money back when you say you will as some of us depend on that money.
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“I have never had the misfortune to deal with such ......”
1 Star Review
May 13,2012
By:
'NUTE'
May 13,2012
Branch: Chelmsford, 17 Duke Street
Services: Lettings (as a Landlord)
Would you recommend?: No
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Branch: Chelmsford, 17 Duke Street
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I have never had the misfortune to deal with such dreadful service. We are renting our property out and paying them a riduculous amount of money for doing nothing. They NEVER reply to emails, they are always unavalailable when you call and when you do ...
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What agent could do to change your mind?
Returned phone calls and emails, not been rude and listened to what our requirements were. Oh and not lost our key, paperwork and tried to charge us multiple times for the same thing.
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“at the end of January 2012, Entwistle Green showed me a ......”
1 Star Review
May 13,2012
By:
'Fanscensu'
May 13,2012
Branch: London, 760 Leabridge Road
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: No
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Branch: London, 760 Leabridge Road
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at the end of January 2012, Entwistle Green showed me a property in Blackburn where I am still (unfortunately) living. The flat to rent looked apparently fine, so I signed a 6-month tenancy contract. After a week of stay in the flat, I found the house ...
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Agents from Entwistle Green should have told me the house was in need of maintenance prior to my tenancy; the agents from Countrywide in Manchester (the HaƒÂ§ienda building) should have fixed the problem when required, instead of leaving me in disgusting conditions for 2 months and still ignoring me.
They should be all prosecuted
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“yet another phone call from this bunch of useless twits,......”
1 Star Review
Apr 27,2012
By:
'paidup'
Apr 27,2012
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: No
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yet another phone call from this bunch of useless twits,rented from mike jolly's for 11 years and never a problem with them receiving my rent. I keep having to send proof that I have paid.The first time I didn't even know that I wasn't ...
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done their job properly
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“I used Entwistle Green estate agents and had no problems, ......”
1 Star Review
Apr 26,2012
By:
'ghworth87'
Apr 26,2012
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: No
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I used Entwistle Green estate agents and had no problems, until they started using countrywide lettings to process their payments.
They claim that my rent is in arrears by £200, which happened at the same point they took over the rent payments.
After showing our estate ...
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What agent could do to change your mind?
They should charge less and improving their customer service greatly would still only make them a mediocre agency.
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“Complete rip off merchants and fraudsters. Non-existent customer service.Charged ......”
1 Star Review
Apr 25,2012
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'Countrywide'
Apr 25,2012
Branch: Mansfield, 75 Westgate
Services: Lettings (as a Landlord)
Would you recommend?: No
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Branch: Mansfield, 75 Westgate
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Complete rip off merchants and fraudsters. Non-existent customer service.
Charged me a fee to renew a tenancy agreement, cashed the cheque and did nothing to provide the service apart from trying to charge my tenant a fee too. Eventually sorted the contract out myself but ...
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Pay me back the renewal fee as requested in a timely manner and as clearly stated as their code of practice!
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“STAY AWAY from COUNTRYWIDE PLC and FULFORDS. Ripped off, misinformed, ......”
1 Star Review
Apr 23,2012
By:
'BeWarned!'
Apr 23,2012
Branch: Mansfield, 75 Westgate
Services: Lettings (as a Landlord)
Would you recommend?: No
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Branch: Mansfield, 75 Westgate
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STAY AWAY from COUNTRYWIDE PLC and FULFORDS. Ripped off, misinformed, landed with scum as tenants who are encouraged to work the benefits system by Fulfords. Our property has been destroyed, Fulfords have employed cowboys (probably relatives) for erroneous repairs, tenants smoking and doing drugs, Countrywide ...
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I think Countrywide operate in a such a way that their staff can not be bothered to ensure Landlords interests are protected. The bottom line is they want their fees, they get us to pay for legal protection and then ensure their fees are the first thing protected! it is an immoral racket made worse by the benefits and bleeding heart culture of the UK where individuals are encouraged to exploit homeowners and the benefit system so they can remain jobless and live for free.
I have encountered no professional pride or integrity in any dealings so it is hopeless to imagine change is possible.
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“Absolutely appalling from start to finish. Took our £1250 deposit and ......”
1 Star Review
Apr 17,2012
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'Disgruntled'
Apr 17,2012
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: No
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Absolutely appalling from start to finish. Took our £1250 deposit and have failed to ensure a safe return to us. Their excuse is that they then passed it on to the landlord, but we paid the money to them in good faith and they washed their ...
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“We have had nothing but issues with Countrywide in York, ......”
1 Star Review
Mar 28,2012
By:
'trillian12'
Mar 28,2012
Branch: York, 37 Micklegate
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: No
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Branch: York, 37 Micklegate
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We have had nothing but issues with Countrywide in York, who now seem to have changed names to Bridgfords but are still part of Countrywide. When we moved in we paid nearly £500 in fees, on top of our deposit and first months rent. We got ...
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“MANN Countrywide Lettings found me a property within 48hrs of ......”
4 Star Review
Mar 28,2012
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'Ms'
Mar 28,2012
Branch: Guildford, 172 High Street
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: Yes
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Branch: Guildford, 172 High Street
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MANN Countrywide Lettings found me a property within 48hrs of me being registered as an applicant. They processed my needs quickly and provided fantastic customer service. I will recommend them to anyone looking to rent a property in the near future....
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