“There are too many issues to write them all here. ......”
1 Star Review
Sep 29,2015
By:
'Ms'
Sep 29,2015
Branch: Witney, 3-4 Kingfishers Court Northfield Farm Lane
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Rent PCM: £600
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode: HP20
Branch: Witney, 3-4 Kingfishers Court Northfield Farm Lane
Lettings (as a Tenant)
Rent PCM: £600
Postcode: HP20
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There are too many issues to write them all here. Firstly if you fall for the six month up front scam, do not accept it. I found out that they keep hold of the money and it is meted out to the landlord when they decide. If they went bust what would you do? I refused to do it again and paid monthly rent after that. The worst issue is check out. Warning, warning, warning. Take heaps of photos and detail everything. My poor landlord found out to his dismay that Gatekeeper had not even taken a proper inventory when I moved in. I was handed a disc with photos from a previous tenant two years prior to my tenancy. They bully you to sign the checkout report, pay them a huge fee for doing nothing, and tell you that everything was so dirty and you have not even bothered to clean. All madness. I spent a whole week cleaning every part of it as I had moved a week earlier. If you can, go straight to DPS. Gatekeeper kept me waiting over a month while they said they were negotiating a better deal on my deposit return. Utter fabrication. I had to wait five months in the end because Gatekeeper would not send digitally dated photos to prove their case. I got my full deposit back and the DPS said their checkout fee was not fair terms of business, so they did not get their mitts on that. Ten pound was returned to the landlord for something that was rotten when I moved in, but I had no proof. I am not complaining. DPS were fab and professional.
I feel sorry for my poor landlord, whom I think was not told the truth about anything. Landlords and tenants beware.
Note if you stay in a property for four to five years it is expected that it will need full redecoration anyway so deductions from a deposit at that stage are specious.
What agent could do to change your mind?
Tell the truth and act like professionals and not a bunch of greedy hicks.
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