“During the viewings of properties, they behaved as expected, but ......”
1 Star Review
Apr 07,2017
By:
'Lo'
Apr 07,2017
Branch: Cambridge, 5 Dukes Court,
54-62 Newmarket Road
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode: CB4
Branch: Cambridge, 5 Dukes Court,
54-62 Newmarket Road
Lettings (as a Tenant)
Postcode: CB4
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During the viewings of properties, they behaved as expected, but once I had signed away my money things quickly changed. My account was managed by Maxine and she was the rudest most incompetent 'professional' that I have ever encountered. When I moved into the property ...
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Extortionate
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“Finding Russells was like winning the lottery - in reverse. ......”
1 Star Review
Jun 03,2016
By:
'Dissappointed'
Jun 03,2016
Branch: Cambridge, 100-102 Regent Street
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Rent PCM: £700
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode: CB10
Branch: Cambridge, 100-102 Regent Street
Lettings (as a Tenant)
Rent PCM: £700
Postcode: CB10
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Finding Russells was like winning the lottery - in reverse. Fees for breathing in, fees for breathing out. We discovered two cat-urine soaked carpets which, due to end of tenancy cleaning, we didn't notice when we moved in but they soon stank the place out, ...
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What agent could do to change your mind?
Too high, too many, ever-increasing.
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Too high, too many, ever-increasing.
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“Mr Gavin Grainger was giving false references about myself not ......”
1 Star Review
Apr 15,2016
By:
'David'
Apr 15,2016
Branch: Cambridge, 5 Dukes Court,
54-62 Newmarket Road
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Rent PCM: £715
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode: CB4
Branch: Cambridge, 5 Dukes Court,
54-62 Newmarket Road
Lettings (as a Tenant)
Rent PCM: £715
Postcode: CB4
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Mr Gavin Grainger was giving false references about myself not paying the rent of time . Besides he said I was paying a lower rent as per tenancy agreement.
Having all the documentations ( last 6 monks bank statement , tenancy agreement indicating the rent to be paid etc..) ...
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“If you see a property advertised by Russell Residential, run ......”
1 Star Review
Oct 02,2015
By:
'Ex'
Oct 02,2015
Branch: Cambridge, 100-102 Regent Street
Services: They manage our building
Rent PCM: £845
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode: CB1
Branch: Cambridge, 100-102 Regent Street
They manage our building
Rent PCM: £845
Postcode: CB1
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If you see a property advertised by Russell Residential, run and don't look back. You will be treated like an inconvenience, no maintenance issues you raise will be addressed. You will find unannounced contractors in your home, and Russells won't bother to notify you before ...
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What agent could do to change your mind?
Become both competent, (perhaps learn a little bit about tenant legislation) and courteous. A little bbit of property management that involves resolving maintenance issues promptly wouldn't go amiss either.
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Their fees are astronomical, for very little indeed.
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“Worst experience of my life. They quite literally do not ......”
1 Star Review
Sep 25,2015
By:
'Stephen'
Sep 25,2015
Branch: Sawston, 60 High Street
Services: Lettings (as a Landlord)
Rent PCM: £1025
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode: CB1
Branch: Sawston, 60 High Street
Lettings (as a Landlord)
Rent PCM: £1025
Postcode: CB1
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Worst experience of my life. They quite literally do not know what a contract is and charge ridiculous fees for 'admin' but provide nothing in return. We had awful tenants and had to do all the work ourselves. What did we pay Russells for?!...
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1 Star Review
Sep 21,2015
By:
'Al'
Sep 21,2015
Branch: Sawston, 60 High Street
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Rent PCM: £800
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode: CB23
Branch: Sawston, 60 High Street
Lettings (as a Tenant)
Rent PCM: £800
Postcode: CB23
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I don't usually write online reviews and in a way I'm not entirely sure if our views actually make a difference, however I have been compelled to make an exception in this case, and express my disbelief at the incompetence and inefficiency of Russells Estate ...
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“I can only echo what other tenants have said. Fees ......”
1 Star Review
Jul 21,2015
By:
'Neil'
Jul 21,2015
Branch: Sawston, 60 High Street
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Rent PCM: £875
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode: CB1
Branch: Sawston, 60 High Street
Lettings (as a Tenant)
Rent PCM: £875
Postcode: CB1
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I can only echo what other tenants have said. Fees were ridiculously high, rent increased every time the tenancy was renewed, hardly ever responded to emails or phone calls. In addition they occasionally failed to pay the landlord the correct rent, then contacted us when ...
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Communicate with tenants, communicate with their colleagues.
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“Unfortunately I cannot leave worse than 'terrible' above. The are ......”
1 Star Review
Jul 13,2015
By:
'Budgiesmuggler'
Jul 13,2015
Branch: Sawston, 60 High Street
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Rent PCM: £695
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode: CB22
Branch: Sawston, 60 High Street
Lettings (as a Tenant)
Rent PCM: £695
Postcode: CB22
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Unfortunately I cannot leave worse than 'terrible' above. The are wholly Incompetent on every single level. Their communication is horrendous and they are bi credibly good at avoiding probing questions. They are very quick to chase and request fees that, realistically, are not required but ...
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Do the opposite of what has been done and you may be getting somewhere
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Fees were outrageous. Nothing more to add.
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“I've had a repeatedly poor experience with them. The fees ......”
1 Star Review
Jun 28,2015
By:
'I'
Jun 28,2015
Branch: Cambridge, 100-102 Regent Street
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Rent PCM: £750
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode: CB24
Branch: Cambridge, 100-102 Regent Street
Lettings (as a Tenant)
Rent PCM: £750
Postcode: CB24
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I've had a repeatedly poor experience with them. The fees are very high (especially the ones I had to pay every 6 months to renew my tenancy when the rent often increased too). They are impossible with checkouts and refused to adhere to the contract stating ...
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“Wanted to warn other tenants away from Russells - they ......”
2 Star Review
Feb 10,2015
By:
'modeltenant'
Feb 10,2015
Branch: Sawston, 60 High Street
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Rent PCM: £850
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode: CB1
Branch: Sawston, 60 High Street
Lettings (as a Tenant)
Rent PCM: £850
Postcode: CB1
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Wanted to warn other tenants away from Russells - they are very grasping in terms of fees, and they habitually lost paperwork I returned to them or ignored emails. The final straw was the massive delay in returning my deposit....
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Rent was reasonable, if steep, but all the admin & tenancy renewal fees were extortionate.
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“Shockingly bad probably the most corrupt and useless agents I ......”
1 Star Review
Jan 05,2015
By:
'John'
Jan 05,2015
Branch: Cambridge, 100-102 Regent Street
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode: CB2
Branch: Cambridge, 100-102 Regent Street
Lettings (as a Tenant)
Postcode: CB2
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Shockingly bad probably the most corrupt and useless agents I have ever used. Rented the property eventually even though it was empty and they couldn't be bothered to show it to me. Took my money and forgot to sign my deposit paperwork and I am ...
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“I let two Cambridge properties, one with Russells and one ......”
1 Star Review
Dec 10,2014
By:
'DJ'
Dec 10,2014
Branch: Cambridge, 100-102 Regent Street
Services: Lettings (as a Landlord)
Rent PCM: £2000
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode: CB4
Branch: Cambridge, 100-102 Regent Street
Lettings (as a Landlord)
Rent PCM: £2000
Postcode: CB4
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I let two Cambridge properties, one with Russells and one with another agents. I have been using Russells for the last 4 years, for full management. They started off ok but have dramatically deteriorated over the last year or so since being taken over. Most annoyingly ...
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What agent could do to change your mind?
Respond to emails.
Act on landlord instructions
Take complaints seriously
Devise a system to transfer money to landlords on time
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As a landlord I felt fees were equivalent to other agents in the area. My problem was with the quality of the service provided.
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1 Star Review
Nov 30,2014
By:
'Angry'
Nov 30,2014
Branch: Cambridge, 100-102 Regent Street
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Rent PCM: £675
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode: CB24
Branch: Cambridge, 100-102 Regent Street
Lettings (as a Tenant)
Rent PCM: £675
Postcode: CB24
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I don't think we have anything good to say about Russells. Unnecessary and inexplicable fees, poor communication, rude staff. Whenever we notified them about a maintenance issue, we were either ignored or fobbed off. We had no working heating for almost four years, relying solely ...
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Proper responses to maintenance complaints and general inquiries, and actually offering decent customer service instead of acting like us living in the property was a massive inconvenience to them.
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“This estate agents are awful. I would advise anyone who ......”
1 Star Review
Nov 27,2014
By:
'Lisa'
Nov 27,2014
Branch: Ely, 20 Main Street
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Rent PCM: £900
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode: CB6
Branch: Ely, 20 Main Street
Lettings (as a Tenant)
Rent PCM: £900
Postcode: CB6
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This estate agents are awful. I would advise anyone who is thinking about even renting a property with russells please think again. I have never been with an estate agents like this before,side with landlord all the time,the do not care about tenants ...
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What agent could do to change your mind?
Being fair as a company,listen to tenants and stop trying to get money out of people....oh and stop lying!!!!!!!
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Awful fees,don't know we're they get them from its an absolute joke how much they charge,there all about money and that's all they care about oh and the landlord!!!!
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“We completely agree with these negative reviews. Russells are absolutely ......”
1 Star Review
Oct 29,2014
By:
'Tenants'
Oct 29,2014
Branch: Sawston, 60 High Street
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Rent PCM: £1050
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode: CB1
Branch: Sawston, 60 High Street
Lettings (as a Tenant)
Rent PCM: £1050
Postcode: CB1
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We completely agree with these negative reviews. Russells are absolutely atrocious and their professional standards are appalling. We are in the process of raising a dispute through the HM Court & Tribunal Service and have launched a campaign to question the ethics of this organisation and ...
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What agent could do to change your mind?
To remain impartial and not to favour the landlord over the tenant. To provide pertinent and legal documentation in good time and to listen to the tenants and address queries that are raised.
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Extortionate in comparison to others.
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“My partner and I rented a property from Russels on ......”
1 Star Review
Oct 28,2014
By:
'Angry'
Oct 28,2014
Branch: Sawston, 60 High Street
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Rent PCM: £895
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode: CB1
Branch: Sawston, 60 High Street
Lettings (as a Tenant)
Rent PCM: £895
Postcode: CB1
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My partner and I rented a property from Russels on a year long tennancy. It is well known that the majority of lettings agents in Cambridge have a great number of fees but Russells managed to outshine the rest. There are a great number of ...
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What agent could do to change your mind?
Not so much the agents specifically. The two agents who actually dealt with our property were very helpful and when we could get hold of them on the phone got things done promptly. The issue is having to send emails thaty are not replied to because of being at work through the day and the greater Russells management charging extortionate amounts for little service.
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Extortionate and unjustified
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“Russell's managed my property in Cambridge and should have inspected ......”
1 Star Review
Oct 05,2014
By:
'ripped'
Oct 05,2014
Branch: Cambridge, 100-102 Regent Street
Services: Lettings (as a Landlord)
Rent PCM: £900
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode: CB1
Branch: Cambridge, 100-102 Regent Street
Lettings (as a Landlord)
Rent PCM: £900
Postcode: CB1
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Russell's managed my property in Cambridge and should have inspected it regularly. They had permission to repair and maintain it and charge me. They failed to maintain the property and after six years I sacked them and the property was returned to me in poor ...
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The fees were acceptable. The repair fees would have been acceptable too. Either they did not complete the agreed inspections or they sent in someone who was oblivious to the lists left by the tenant and to the very obvious repairs that needed to take place. (Huge holes in kitchen worksurface, kitchen cupboard doors hanging off, falling down fences, etc)
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“We had no significant problems until the company was taken ......”
1 Star Review
Jul 10,2014
By:
'FenWoman'
Jul 10,2014
Branch: Sawston, 60 High Street
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Rent PCM: £1150
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode: CB1
Branch: Sawston, 60 High Street
Lettings (as a Tenant)
Rent PCM: £1150
Postcode: CB1
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We had no significant problems until the company was taken over by Countrywide. We were advised by more than one contractor that services included to the landlords had been reduced and this was leading to a reduction in maintenance the properties - such no longer ...
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There are fees for everything and it is not made very clear when these will be incurred. the renewal of tenancy fee kept going up.
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“Russell Residential is the perfect example of the estate agents ......”
1 Star Review
May 15,2014
By:
'Hokken'
May 15,2014
Branch: Sawston, 60 High Street
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode: CB4
Branch: Sawston, 60 High Street
Lettings (as a Tenant)
Postcode: CB4
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Russell Residential is the perfect example of the estate agents to avoid, the obvious incarnation of profit before people. They don't reply to emails or phone calls but you can trust them to always be there to grab the money where they can get it. ...
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“Russell's have gone swiftly downhill since they stopped being an ......”
1 Star Review
Oct 02,2013
By:
'Jm'
Oct 02,2013
Branch: Sawston, 60 High Street
Services: Lettings (as a Landlord)
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode: CB22
Branch: Sawston, 60 High Street
Lettings (as a Landlord)
Postcode: CB22
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Russell's have gone swiftly downhill since they stopped being an independent and became part of a chain of estate agents.
Russell lost me thousands of pounds in the poor handling of a new tenant resulting in the loss of the tenant and at least two ...
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“We have, at Russells request, had a Guarantor since 2007. Recently, ......”
1 Star Review
Oct 02,2013
By:
'Gathering'
Oct 02,2013
Branch: Cambridge, 100-102 Regent Street
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode: CB1
Branch: Cambridge, 100-102 Regent Street
Lettings (as a Tenant)
Postcode: CB1
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We have, at Russells request, had a Guarantor since 2007. Recently, we received a Subject to Contract letter, requesting confirmation that the Guarantor would be happy to continue. They received this by email on 16th August. Prior to that, in July this year, we had filled ...
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Fire the Office Manager, and get somebody competent instead.
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“I'll start with the positive. When things broke they got ......”
1 Star Review
Jun 03,2013
By:
'Jack'
Jun 03,2013
Branch: Ely, 20 Main Street
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode: CB24
Branch: Ely, 20 Main Street
Lettings (as a Tenant)
Postcode: CB24
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I'll start with the positive. When things broke they got fixed rapidly but that was more thanks to the landlord having a good set of handyman contacts than anything Russells did.
In terms of everything else, I can't agree more than enough with the other ...
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“Have never been so angry in my hole life, They ......”
1 Star Review
Dec 09,2012
By:
'VERY'
Dec 09,2012
Branch: Ely, 20 Main Street
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode: CB25
Branch: Ely, 20 Main Street
Lettings (as a Tenant)
Postcode: CB25
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Have never been so angry in my hole life, They are so rude, liars and most of all money grabbers. Make sure you take pictures of absolutely everything in the property or they will try and accuse you of damaging things witch are already broken ...
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What agent could do to change your mind?
not lied, understand us, not make up things about the property, have someone look round the house at the same time as we check all the things that are wrong with it, make the prices lower, no check out fees. NO MORE LIES!!!!!
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“Terrible customer service, cannot meet deadlines, do not make any ......”
1 Star Review
Oct 24,2012
By:
'cam222'
Oct 24,2012
Branch: Cambridge, 100-102 Regent Street
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode:
Branch: Cambridge, 100-102 Regent Street
Lettings (as a Tenant)
Postcode:
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Terrible customer service, cannot meet deadlines, do not make any attempts to get in contact. Late for arranged appointments without even notifying the tenant (I work in a professional environment and would ring the person(s) as soon as I knew I was going to ...
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“Warning for both landlords and tenants!I am a professional ......”
1 Star Review
Sep 01,2012
By:
'Cambridge'
Sep 01,2012
Branch: Sawston, 60 High Street
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode:
Branch: Sawston, 60 High Street
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Warning for both landlords and tenants!
I am a professional who owns two properties and have two tenants myself and due to work situation rented a house through the agency a year ago. I found out in the last year that they can not be ...
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1 Star Review
Jul 18,2012
By:
'Mourningrise'
Jul 18,2012
Branch: Ely, 20 Main Street
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode:
Branch: Ely, 20 Main Street
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I had the displeasure of being a tenant to this agent for almost 2 years, while the basic service (as long as nothing went wrong) was ok, that being, visits were periodical roughly every 3 months with at least 24 hours notice. When something did go wrong, or ...
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What agent could do to change your mind?
Better correspondence with the tenant, including answering Emails would be nice.
Getting things done when they say they will rather than putting it off indefinitely.
Not trying to take you for every penny at checkout and keeping records updated.
I don't think there's anything that they could do to reconcile the experience. Avoid.
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“Awful. Beware of the hidden charges. There are many and ......”
1 Star Review
Jul 13,2012
By:
'Sare'
Jul 13,2012
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: No
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Awful. Beware of the hidden charges. There are many and they are grossly inflated. They will charge you for anything and everything they can get away with. They will take £75 every six months just for you to sign a new copy of the contract. I ...
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What agent could do to change your mind?
Fewer hidden charges. Make your charges more reasonable.
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1 Star Review
Jul 12,2012
By:
'soul'
Jul 12,2012
Branch: Cambridge, 100-102 Regent Street
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode:
Branch: Cambridge, 100-102 Regent Street
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Don't expect to get away without a hole in your bank account, at least Dick Turpin wore a mask! the charges for every little thing and hassle trying to get anything done is ridiculous, would never use them again and would strongly advise against anyone ...
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5 Star Review
Jul 10,2012
By:
'Paul'
Jul 10,2012
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: Yes
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I have been a tenant with Russells for the last 2 years. I have been very pleased with service I have received during that time. They are very transparent with their fees and terms which are outlined in the application form before you decide to rent ...
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“have rented before, but never have I witnessed so many ......”
1 Star Review
Apr 24,2012
By:
'Bubbles'
Apr 24,2012
Branch: Cambridge, 100-102 Regent Street
Services: Lettings (as a Tenant)
Would you recommend?: No
Postcode:
Branch: Cambridge, 100-102 Regent Street
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have rented before, but never have I witnessed so many hidden charges involved in a rental company.
There was a £120 legal fee before we even started, then £65 per person for referencing. Even though I am a homeowner, and make over £30,000 a year, Russells decided that ...
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What agent could do to change your mind?
Not been a money grabbing, slow, useless estate agent!
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