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2.4/5, 25 Reviews
33% Recommended
25% sales valuation accuracy
100% letting valuation accuracy
38% sales fee satisfaction
38% letting fee satisfaction
| Services | Valuation | Fees | Min Price of property reviewed | Max Price of property reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales | 25% | 38% | £0 | £0 |
| Lettings | 100% | 38% | £625 | £2,900 |
| From Landlords | From Tenants | From Vendors | From Buyers | From Other | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | 3 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
cmRENT
23 Duke Street, Chelmsford, Essex
CM1 1HS
01245 - 283 283

By : 'Meriglenn'
Branch : Chelmsford, 23 Duke Street
Services : Letting (As a Prospective Landlord/Tenant)
Rent PCM : £2900
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : CM1
After being pushed back for a viewing and subsequent move in, we were presented with a property legally unfit for habitation - requiring us to cancel our move and spend a week getting a refund. No communication between landlord, letting agent and us. Property presented without ... Read Full Review
By : 'Nicola'
Branch : Chelmsford, 23 Duke Street
Services : Letting (As a Tenant)
Rent PCM : £1400
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : CM2
Awful company, have had a leak and heating issue since I have moved in which remains unfixed. They delay and deny constantly leaving my 3 year old and I with no effective heating and a property full of damp. The agents are inhumane, making you feel like you are the problem for complaining. They lie ... Read Full Review

By : 'Nayema'
Branch : Chelmsford, 23 Duke Street
Services : Letting (As a Tenant)
Rent PCM : £750
Would you recommend ? : Yes
Postcode : CM1
Excellent service. Starting from the viewing of the property to the finish of the agreement, everything was on time and very ... Read Full Review
By : 'Tyelle'
Branch : Braintree Head Office, Freeport Office Village
Century Drive
Services : Letting (As a Tenant)
Rent PCM : £1175
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : CM12
Agency takes weeks to fix issues, leaving us for 3 weeks without a working front door which was a fire Hazzard, and over 7 weeks without access to our garage where we had food in our freezer. This also delayed our ability to move property. Staff seem very friendly and make all sorts of promises but ... Read Full Review
By : 'Emmanuel'
Branch : Chelmsford, 23 Duke Street
Services : Letting (As a Tenant)
Would you recommend ? : Yes
Postcode : CM1
When I decided to look for a place to move to, I went to most of the estate agents in Chelmsford sadly non of them were interested in helping me. But things changed when I contacted the ladies at CMRENT. The ladies took it upon themselves to find me a home. Believe you me the ladies at CMRENT 23 ... Read Full Review
By : 'Daz'
Branch : Chelmsford, 23 Duke Street
Services : Letting (As a Owner)
Rent PCM : £795
Would you recommend ? : Yes
Postcode : CM2
Very knowledgable. Were very helpful and professional and always willing to help and are very honest and up front. Not like the other 'typical' estate agents in town (Chelmsford). Thoroughly ... Read Full Review
Cheaper than the others in the city

By : 'Sam'
Branch : Braintree Head Office, Freeport Office Village
Century Drive
Services : Letting (As a Tenant)
Rent PCM : £650
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : CM7
Absolutely disgusted with this agent. Landlord agreed early exit as I could no longer afford the rent. Still told I has to pay up till new tenants moved in... ok took this on the chin. After inspection was done at flat it turns out they were taking all but 74 pound of 975 pound deposit due to ... Read Full Review
Too much
By : 'K.'
Branch : Chelmsford, 23 Duke Street
Services : Letting (As a Tenant)
Rent PCM : £625
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : CM2
I am glad I read these reviews before I became one of their customers. Me and my partner were very interested in renting one of their properties. We visited their branch in Chelmsford a week ago to ask more about the flat we were interested, however were told that it is no longer available. After a ... Read Full Review
By : 'vroomvroom'
Branch : Chelmsford, 23 Duke Street
Services : Letting (As a Tenant)
Rent PCM : £1200
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : CM1
I recently moved into a rented property via the Chelmsford branch of CM Lettings. The service extended was below par especially post acceptance of my offer. 1) We had agreed on an additional viewing (after my offer was accepted) but when I turned up at the property there was no one around. When ... Read Full Review
By : 'Andy'
Branch : Braintree Head Office, Freeport Office Village
Century Drive
Services : Letting (As a Prospective Landlord/Tenant)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : CM8
Upon our initial enquiry to CMRENT regarding a flat in Witham, I was greeted by an extremely rude lady on the other end of the phone. When I asked whether we could view the flat later than the time she had originally suggested, as I was taking my daughter swimming at that time, she rudely grunted ... Read Full Review


By : 'Abused'
Branch : Braintree Head Office, Freeport Office Village
Century Drive
Services : Letting (As a Tenant)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : CM2
CM Rent are the worst letting agent we have EVER experienced. They conned us into moving into a very poorly maintained house, and refused to do any repairs for months-even ones that broke health and safety laws. They also did not tell us that the person living next door was very noisy, abusive, ... Read Full Review
There is no way I would ever use this company again, and I am surprised they have not been shut down by now.
By : CMRENT ARE TO EXPENSIVE FACT
13 Mar 2014There you have it yet another True review of this dreadful company who use the ARLA logo behind them. £200 per tenant and £200 per landlord to renew...


By : 'Jason'
Branch : Braintree Head Office, Freeport Office Village
Century Drive
Services : Letting (As a Tenant)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : CM7
I cannot say too much about this excuse of a business as I am, at present, seeking legal recourse over a number of outstanding issues in regard to the property, the agent and the landlord. All i will say is that DO NOT trust cmRent any further than you can throw them. unless you wish to pay over ... Read Full Review
Managed the property!
By : Michael Saville
5 Mar 2014Hi Jason & Jane. Please email me personally about your complaint so that it can be investigated and responded into. I can only deal with your issues if you give me specifics. We have an official...
By : 'scampi'
Branch : Chelmsford ,23 Duke Street
Services : Letting (As a Tenant)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : CM2
My experience with CMrent has been stressful, upsetting and frustrating. I would strongly advise anyone considering to rent a property with this company to reconsider and use another letting agency. The staff are unorganised, showed poor communication skills both within their own branch as well as ... Read Full Review
Better communication skills throughout the whole company Better record keeping throughout the whole company Better customer service and less rude, disinterested staff on the phones Better system for organising maintenance issues Better communication skills as a result of inspections BETTER INSPECTIONS- the staff carrying them out DO NOT CARE and are there for 5 minutes maxmimum Better communication of renewal fees and explanation of WHY they are so high CLEAR INDICATION of when the landlord wants tenants out
By : Michael Saville
13 Jan 2014Hi (scampi), I am sorry you feel the need to air your feelings on this website. My colleagues are dealing with your emails to us internally so not sure why you have done this. It's never nice...
By : '123'
Branch : Chelmsford, 23 Duke Street
Services : Letting (As a Tenant)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : CM1
We have expressed an interest in a number of property's all of which still need to be confirmed with the tenant baring in mind this is since early December. Have expressed concern with dealing with a particular staff member and the response I got was ridiculous explaining she has had a word and ... Read Full Review
They could have supplied me with a member of staff who I was happy with and could have taken my enquiries seriously and followed them up
By : 'Daisy'
Branch : Chelmsford ,23 Duke Street
Services : Letting (As a Prospective Landlord/Tenant)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : CM4
I've been looking into renting from cmRENT as they have some lovely properties on offer. I've been renting my current flat from Upsticks and I've had such a horrible experience I wanted to make sure I wasn't going to encounter such a poor standard of service again. I took to looking through ... Read Full Review

By : 'Alison'
Branch : Braintree Head Office, Freeport Office Village
Century Drive
Services : Letting (As a Tenant)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : CM2
I have very unfortunately been a tenant in a property supposedly managed by CM Rent, and I have been waiting several months for basic repairs to be done. I had to call out the environmental health to assess the safety of the property as Paul Buck ignored a written formal complaint I sent them, and ... Read Full Review
By : Michael Saville
9 Dec 2013Out of 630+ managed properties, we do not have any current Tenants called 'Alison' with the problems that you have described above. If you have another name and have a real complaint, then please...

By : 'Chris'
Branch : Chelmsford, 23 Duke Street
Services : Letting (As a Tenant)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : CM2
Like most people who use CMRent, they were fine when moving in, but when anything needed doing within the property they were pretty useless. The staff are completely incompetent. The problem we're having at the moment (STILL) is that we're not getting our deposit back. I have explained to them ... Read Full Review
By : Michael Saville
9 Dec 2013Hi Chris, I'm sorry that you felt the need to write your complaint on this website. We do not get notified of any complaints on here, it's just by luck that i saw yours. I'm disappointed you felt the ...

By : 'Zoe'
Branch : Braintree Head Office, Freeport Office Village
Century Drive
Services : Letting (As a Tenant)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : CM2
Rude, unhelpful and made me so angry I had to try my hardest not to swear at him. In fairness, I would like to state that all other members of staff I have dealt with at CM Rent have been helpful throughout my letting the property. However, on departure my issues have started. I moved out of ... Read Full Review
Been more supportive and assisted by at least providing the documentation requested. None of my requests were unreasonable given the situation.
By : Zoe
18 Jul 2013I would like to add that if Mr Saville would like to either refund my money claimed from my deposit, or provide me with the official receipts, a copy of the check out report made by CM Rent prior to...
By : 'Mary'
Branch : Braintree Head Office, Freeport Office Village
Century Drive
Services : Letting (As a Tenant)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : CM2
This letting agent is very badly organised and have very low standards in the properties they rent out. They refuse to do electrical safety tests on any of their properties as there is a loophole in the law that gets them out of this,which is worrying to say the least. They refused to fix ... Read Full Review
Trust in the reviews you see online as we did not and we are paying for it now by living in a house where we will have to fight to get even the most basic repairs carried out. This agent have pretty much done everything wrong and in an extremely unprofessional manner despite us being good tenants, so they would have to be a different company all together to help us \'change our mind\'
By : Michael Saville
6 Jul 2013Hi Mary, please let me know your surname, the property you were renting and I will look into this. We take our instructions from the landlord and cannot carry out any maintenance without their...
By : 'Danielle'
Branch : Braintree Head Office, Freeport Office Village
Century Drive
Services : Letting (As a Tenant)
Would you recommend ? : Yes
Postcode : CM7
Fantastic company. The below reviews are a load of rubbish, which is quite clear from just written the lack of detail and the fact they are all targeted at one branch I am a tenant of cmRENT and have nothing but praise from them. They are friendly, polite and wiling to help in any way they can. ... Read Full Review
By : Michael Saville
6 Jul 2013Thank you Danielle. I'm pleased to hear a real review on this dreadful website at last...
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