I agree with the fees comment. I was abroad November and December last year. No internet so no access to my inbox. Imagine my shock to see a demand of £1200 for redecoration and recarpetting dated 11 December and payment deadline 28 December. So what happens next? £50 charge for late payment. I am sick to death of these leeches so called management agents. Extortionate charges/fees and threaten the leaseholder with eviction when we raise a query why invoices not forthcoming to justify charges. I am selling my flat. I paid £354 for the management pack and still no answer why it is being withheld nearly 3 weeks later. The turnaround is 8 days and I am still waiting. Solicitors waiting. Buyer waiting. My life on hold. There should be legislation in place to penalise these incompetent management leeches for unacceptable delays to requests paid for. Never buying a leasehold property again.

Avoid at all costs. John Sykes has a culture within the company facilitating the collection of substantial amounts of money for expansion no matter the human or emotional cost, from 36 pounds late fees if you delay rent a single day to literally the owner of the house calling my son in the middle of the night complaining about the shampoo stand being dirty just to exert dominance while literally everything in ensured in multiple fronts. These companies are one-time stop and unfortunately there is not even 1 google query result warning people of businesses that treat people like that. Plus they only accept students, guess why ;)