I genuinely felt like I was in a tv show where I was being pranked, worst business I’ve ever dealt with. We arranged a viewing for 5pm on Thursday with Ben, my partner and I took time off work for it. We arrived at 4:50pm to view a two bed flat in maidstone. 5:05pm - still no sign of Ben. We called the office, they told us he was doing another viewing and would be with us shortly. 5:30pm, after waiting outside for 40 minutes at 4 degrees, we called the office back. I was met with a rude and dismissive older woman who tried to tell me he was showing another flat at 5:15pm and we were after, which was a lie as we were booked at 5pm and had been outside since 4:50pm. I explained that was impossible as we were there at 4:50pm and she abruptly put me on hold for about 5 minutes. Eventually she came back to tell me Ben had been called away suddenly because another property that had ‘broken locks’ so he had to rush over there to call out a locksmith to fix it. 1. Why would he need to be there to meet a locksmith? - how would that help the situation unless he is also a locksmith? 2. He didn’t even bother to call us or the office to let us know he couldn’t make the viewing. It seemed like an obvious lie and we still can’t make sense of it now. The woman did apologise and offered us another viewing for 12:30 on Saturday. We reluctantly agreed. 12:20 Saturday: we turned up and saw Ben take another couple into the apartment. 12:28 - Ben came out of the flats, got in his car and drove off. We got out of our car to try flag him down. He stopped, got out and asked us if we were going to view a flat. He did not apologise for wasting almost two hours of our day on Thursday or even acknowledge it happened. He admitted he forgot he was booked in with us for another viewing on Saturday and was leaving. He then showed us the property and continued to lie throughout the viewing, first claiming the property just needed a ‘tidy’, then once we got in the door and saw how disgusting it was he said he’d not seen the property, then said that others had turned down the property in recent viewings because of the state of it (he also told us we were the first to view the property). It honestly seemed like he thought we were stupid and had no memory of what he said previously to the point I thought we were being pranked. I have never seen as estate agent company act so unprofessionally in my entire life and encourage everyone to be cautious about using them to rent or buy in the Maidstone area.