View all comments (4) Wow - AJ really will go to any lengths to try and hide his own dishonesty. You only have to read previous reviews of this company and AJ himself to see what he is truly like to deal with. As for myself, we did indeed work for him for around 8yrs, on and off. We fell out on several occasions due to his business practices and on each occasion he would come running back to us telling us that we were the best contractors he had ever used and he had changed his ways. As for his comments regardi ...

View all comments (1) Hi we recently left from a property that AJ owned. He only gave me back half of my deposit with deducted agency check out fees, administration fees and cleaning fees. He gave half of it back without agreeing it to me.... Did you get anything back? really annoying as mine is now released from the deposit scheme or they were that dodgy that it never was in a deposit scheme?! ...

View all comments (1) Don't hold your breath been trying to do the same. I heard they have shut down as of 31 March ...

View all comments (1) Please see below comments from the landlord re this issue Hi Robert, I currently have no time to be spending on this, and this is why I said to AJ I would have to leave this up to him. I did state that although I got on with you when I met you, and believe you to be an honest person, I could not allow that to affect the end result of renting out the property, with respect to the current state of the house. Having seen the pictures there was nothing there that made me believe that AJ ...

View all comments (1) I too can vouch for the outrageous inspection standards and slow response on maintenance issues. ...

View all comments (1) This tallies with my experience of Ashley Charles. They will go out of their way to screw you out of every penny they can and have the audacity to call their daylight robbery 'admin charges'. ...

View all comments (1) People what Penny Officer aka Penny Collins is not admitting to she is that she turned to sqautting to avaoid paying rent and had to be evicted by a court order owing over £2500 in rent and another £1500 in damges to the property. The above report is totally fictious and quit frankly abusive. If any of it was true she would not have been evicted by Reading County Court. Her gas was not turned off. When the engineer went round to fix it, the cupboard that housed the boiler was cramped with he ...

View all comments (1) Sounds like i'm not alone! I am currently doing battle with Ashley Charles after being told that the check out report says I have caused damage exceeding my deposit! They havn't even got a damm office in Reading even though there website says they do! ...

View all comments (2) Clearly AJ has blundered across this and is trying to mitigate the fact he's been rumbled as the worst agent in the Reading Area. The motto 'because integrity matters' is clearly highly ironic. Dreadful Company. ...

View all comments (2) Oven and carpets cleaned fair enough, I agree but the fact they had not been cleaned before we moved in another matter. Solicitor is the Head Partnership in Henley On Thames. ...

View all comments (1) Yes all seems fine and dandy when you first meet the 'can't do enough for you' AJ from Ashley Charles. Don't worry about that faulty Shower or broken floor tile that will be fixed by the time you move in you are told reassuringly.. was it hell!! Nd six months later the cost of rectifying it is taken out of my deposit!! Never never never rent through Ashley Charles unless you don't mind losing alot of money! ...

View all comments (3) Bad all round not going into detail. Good luck getting any deposit back. And yes am real real ex Ashley Charles tennant. I would go with Elite Property Management who are much better, previous flat was with them and they were a dream compared to Ashley Charles. ...