80% lettings valuation accuracy
25% lettings fee satisfaction
Sep 25,2017
Sep 25,2017
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Wow what can I say what a vile women nothing but utterly rude when dealing with complaints she swears and puts down the phone !!! This agent let me and my two year old son move into a property that needed so much work doing environmental health got involved ! I have never had a pet and had to get the flat fumigated for fleas ?! My son had bites all over his legs ! Mouse droppings in the cupboard ! Not to mention the heating not working at all in the winter and no insulation in the loft we were freezing - the flat got to much we moved out earlier then the tenancy was due to come to an end because of constantly having builders at mine and having no privacy !
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Essex & Suffolk Lettings
15-19 Headgate
Colchester
Essex
CO3 3BT
01206 571111
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| Services | Valuation Accuracy | Fees Satisfaction | Min Price of property reviewed | Max Price of property reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lettings | 80% | 25% | £475 | £1,150 |
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| From Landlords | From Tenants | From Vendors | From Buyers | Other | |||||
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| 1 | 5 | 7 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
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Jun 19,2023
Jun 19,2023
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When I was a university student some years ago, I rented a flat to share with a friend who was going to college, and was under 18 years old, in Colchester through Essex & Suffolk Lettings. I now have 11+ years of renting, and to this day, E&...
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Mar 11,2020
Mar 11,2020
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Without a doubt the worst agency and the staff working there so expensive what they offer need to be very careful with them their eyes is on our deposit very delayed repairs and also they didn't fully refund my overpaid rent...
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Sep 24,2019
Sep 24,2019
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DISGRACEFUL! They must be the world's worst letting agents. I was a tenant for 6 years, never in arrears, yet was never offered a rolling contract so was forced to stay there so my 6 year old son had security. Every year a 6% rent increase and never ...
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May 23,2019
May 23,2019
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Thank you Rob, you provide 5 star service it's a p;leasure to deal with you. Just one thing is that house rent is overpriced....
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Mar 19,2019
Mar 19,2019
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Without a doubt the worst letting agent around. Rude staff, extortionate prices and no customer service skills what so ever. We have been renting for many years and with several different letting agents, if you are looking at a property which is let or managed ...
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Terrible and overpriced for the service they provide
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Feb 19,2019
Feb 19,2019
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This company are an utter disgrace. The administration fee are so expensive for what they offer. They just expect you to pay so much money then say no you can't have it and don't give you an reason or explain why. Never ever gonna use ...
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Very bad too expensive
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Nov 28,2018
Nov 28,2018
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To start with I live with my partner and son. When we first moved in we were told that the property was cleaned thouroughly and had been redecorated after the previous tenants, however this was not true, ive seen tidier pig styes. We were charged ...
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Sep 03,2018
Sep 03,2018
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Very expensive- if you want to renew tenancy need to pay lots of money. Awful service - charged me lots of money from my deposit during the check out....
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Aug 05,2018
Aug 05,2018
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Absolutely terrible, the worst, please don't go with them, especially if you have a family. They let themselves in to the property with consulting me or getting my consent. My two year old daughter wasn't very well one of the days and they unexpected let ...
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Dec 29,2017
Dec 29,2017
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Absolute Con. They take much higher than average agency fee's from you, house promised to be cleaned after previous tent ants in but was in a dismal state when arriving, from then rearranging move in date 3 times. Rent books aren't upto date and constantly receiving ...
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Absolute con. spent over 3,000 in total to move in.
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Sep 25,2017
Sep 25,2017
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Wow what can I say what a vile women nothing but utterly rude when dealing with complaints she swears and puts down the phone !!! This agent let me and my two year old son move into a property that needed so much work doing environmental ...
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Aug 18,2017
Aug 18,2017
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Don't touch these guys with a barge pole. Entered my property multiple times without permission (at least 5 or 6 different occasions). Only reason these guys are still in business is due to the broken UK housing market. In an industry where you are required to be ...
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Very expensive. If you want to renew your tenancy you pay the fees all over again - though I guess this might be industry standard.
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Jul 28,2017
Jul 28,2017
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Would not recommend this Agency to anyone. If you want to be ripped off then by all means use them.
They have no idea of customer service and once in the property they don£t care if anything goes wrong but when you leave the ...
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Jul 10,2017
Jul 10,2017
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Terrible agency , will not be using them again nor recommending them to anyone.
Fees are higher than most in Colchester so please shop around.
There a extremely high fee to renew your tenancy Just to receive the same papers again , there a fee to end ...
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Higher than most in Colchester
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Jan 18,2017
Jan 18,2017
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Absolutely zero customer service!! Rude on the telephone, back track on verbal conversations that have taken place..asking to prove they said such things!!! Horrendous!!! Charges to renew tenancy every 12 months cost £240, just to print some papers off!! STAY CLEAR!!...
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Horrendous fees, shop about there are cheaper, as we've found with our new property!
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Dec 19,2016
Dec 19,2016
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Zero customer service skills. Horrible attitude. Disgusting behaviour and a downright awful bunch of cr*s. No accountability for their actions and a truly traumatic experience....
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For what we got I can't believe I had to pay anything.
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Nov 18,2016
Nov 18,2016
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Great choice of property's and locations and in a short amount of time I found the ideal property for me .
Easy to deal with staff and all paperwork is kept simple ....
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Very reasonable fees .
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Oct 19,2016
Oct 19,2016
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great members of staff rely nice overall couldn't recommend anyone better, great choice of homes to choose from in some nice locations...
all in all I would use this company again...
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fairly good prices not overall expensive
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Oct 12,2016
Oct 12,2016
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Rob helped me so much! I had 2 weeks to find a house for me and my children! He drove me around Colchester showing me houses that I could afford! I found the perfect apartment! Paid the deposit and rob got the ball rolling. I then ...
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Aug 27,2016
Aug 27,2016
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Very helpful and friendly, changed my payment date due to change of job, always responded to repairs quickly and efficiently...
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Aug 24,2016
Aug 24,2016
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We asked for our front door lock to be fixed it wasn't. Accused of punching light switches. Charged £110 for cleaning even though it's better now than when we moved in. Also we gave them blinds. They didn't fix light fixtures even though we asked them ...
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Aug 04,2016
Aug 04,2016
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As an university student it was essential for me as well as my friends to find a house that we all felt was comfortable and beautiful and we found that house with Essex & Suffolk Lettings. The company itself is alright but the main superhero of ...
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I won't lie, the fees were the most annoying part of the situation because they were expensive, but coming from a university student ‚£50 would be enough to hurt me emotionally. Also knowing that we were not letting with the university we knew that the fees would be expensive, but it was so much better than other companies who wanted a ‚£600 security deposit before the actual deposit, so we couldn't complain much. :)
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Jul 11,2016
Jul 11,2016
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I rented a property from Essex and Suffolk lettings for a year and in that time they treated me really badly as a tenant. The first problem I had was being given incorrect information for my address the post code I was given from them ...
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Agents Fees were reasonable when moving in but shocking having to pay to move out of s property that I had paid to live in for the last year!
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Dec 15,2015
Dec 15,2015
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I have to agree with the other negative comments made about this company. They bring unprofessionalism down to an all time low, *. The most rude, arrogant, bullying * I have ever come across. and the manager *** is no better. Constantly harassing me for large sums of ...
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Absolutely nothing, they are appalling.Attached Filesnbsp;
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Extortionate , they charge for check out and to renew the contract each year without the option of a rolling contract.
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Nov 17,2015
Nov 17,2015
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If I could give them 0 stars I would. The worst I agent I have ever dealt with. They bully tenants into signing long contracts with no break clauses some 5 to 6 months before the end of the last contract. If you don't they immediately start advertising ...
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High ongoing fees for tenants - lower initial fees but not worth it in this case.Attached Filesnbsp;
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High ongoing fees for tenants - lower initial fees but not worth it in this case.
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Nov 05,2015
Nov 05,2015
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Well where to start. Am relieved to see E&S so low in the rankings where they deserve to be. Entire staff incompetent and only show urgency and efficiency when asking for money. At the centre of it all was Karen Goodger who managed to ...
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Aug 27,2015
Aug 27,2015
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I've been renting a property with Essex & Suffolk Lettings for over 2 years now. They are the worst letting agents I have ever had the misfortune of dealing with!
When I first moved in I wasn't able to check the inventory they'd put together, I know ...
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Apr 10,2015
Apr 10,2015
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After renting properties for 10 years I have never been treated in this way and left with no heating and money has been taken from me as a penalty for something that I have not even done...absolutely disgusting...
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Feb 21,2015
Feb 21,2015
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Essex and Suffolk for the most part have been reasonable agents. I too have problems with communication, particularly with missing, delayed or absent emails. There email addresses and staff appear to have a high turnover and they do say good staff don't stay in poor ...
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This is a fee heavy lettings agent. Look out for expensive check in fees, admin fees, and check out feesAttached Filesnbsp;
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This is a fee heavy lettings agent. Look out for expensive check in fees, admin fees, and check out fees
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Feb 21,2015
Feb 21,2015
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This is the first time I have looked at this site and I was disappointed to see how many disgruntled Essex & Suffolk tenants there are! We have used Essex & Suffolk for 11 years since we bought our first buy to let property. There was not nearly ...
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High fees compared to other agents in the area.Attached Filesnbsp;
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High fees compared to other agents in the area.
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