“This is a real drag having to bring this all ......”
1 Star Review
Oct 26,2015
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'MannFat'
Oct 26,2015
Branch: Gosport, 40 High Street
Services: Sales (as a Vendor)
Sold price: £125000
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode: PO13
Branch: Gosport, 40 High Street
Sales (as a Vendor)
Sold price: £125000
Postcode: PO13
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This is a real drag having to bring this all up again, but I can honestly say if you are thinking of using this estate agent, please think very carefully about what your financial situation is and whether you want to buy a house that you can't afford.
If you are selling a property, with a view to buying another house, ensure that you get the figures right in your head first. Do not trust or allow Tony Howard to massage the figures and encourage you to purchase a house that you could have never afforded in the first place.
Unfortunately, I have since spoken to 3 other home owners in the same street who had the same experience with this person. They, like myself thought that we would either not be able to afford the prospective house or thought 'it would be tight' but were encouraged to carry on. I am not sure what the driver is with this person or what his business ethics are, but no amount of bonus or commission would drive me to these tactics.
We actually paid another person to give us a second opinion and I am glad we did as we did not have sufficient funds to complete on the house, when we thrashed the figures out again, we were so far off the amount of funds to complete, it was difficult to understand why we had been allowed to go as far as we did. Sounds daft when you think about it, but this is how taken in we were. I took all of my evidence to the complaints procedure and that was simply blown off with a ten page reply why Mann were not in the wrong. Bizarre really, given that the evidence stacked up.
We pulled out of the purchase but lost all of the money paid in on a house that they should have pointed out was way out of our reach at the time.
My advice, avoid unless you know what you are doing and obviously if there is a house that is being sold by Mann that you want but other than that, "Arms length" and "Bargepole" spring to mind
What agent could do to change your mind?
Sadly not, you have lost a lot of business from this mistake already.
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