Comments on: Are You Dealing With Rogue Letting Agents? Get In Touch

By: Manda

Manda — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:16:16 +0000

Elaine Taylor absconded with the deposit on 3 of my properties. Furthermore she handed over 2 of them to a Chinese weed growing syndicate, leaving me with thousands of pounds of damage to the properties.My insurance as a result have gone sky high.I would be grateful to anyone if he/she can let me know of her whereabouts.

By: micle06

micle06 — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:04:09 +0000

I know there are good Landlords out there, and I also recognise the letting agents need for private residential tenancies; not everybody qualifies for social housing, and not everybody wants the burden of a mortgage. Fine, but if you're going to go into the business of providing such a service then you should recognise you have a duty of care to your tenants.

By: Monty

Monty — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:54:30 +0000

Well advertised rental agents in Milton Keynes. Pleasant people…. but I will leave it to your imagination as to why they always run a month in arrears and make excuses about their automated system letting them down. Theyr’e yet to pay me for January’s and February’s rent, and keep making promises along the lines of “The cheque is in my hand, I will put it in the bank today” – repeatedly. Now March, and by all accounts this is their usual practice. I have phoned them daily every month to chase rents… for the last YEAR! Speaking to competitors in the City- they immediately knew who it was that don’t pay landlords for 2-3 months. I am anxious that they borrow from Peter to pay Paul, and wonder how safe the deposits are. Needless to say, Trading Standards are interested. Watch this space! In my opinion, I would stay the hell away from this letting agency if I were looking for an agency in the area again. Time to move, but then how long will it be before I get the back rent… and what will it cost in legal fees?

By: Guyan

Guyan — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 06:39:15 +0000

The agents I’m using have leased my single bedroom flat to a supposed couple. I’ve had complaints from the managers of the block that there were 5 men living in my ONE bedroom flat and that neighbours have complained of the smell. Informed the agent last year, they said they will investigate but ofcourse they didn’t. I had to arrange a plumber to fix a leak and informs me there were 7 men living in my one bedroom flat! I don’t know what to do. The letting agents i’m sure know whats going on but I’m sure if I confront them they’ll deny all knowledge.
Secondly there has been leaks in the property on 2 occasions and their plumber refused to help as the leak he said was coming from the wall and its a big job to break through the wall. I dont think this plumber exists and the agents want me to do all the work finding plumbers. When I ask for their help even in finding one their response is “we can’t recommend a plumber as we have a contract with our plumber”, but that plumber has refused to do the work!
I feel really down about this, I’m not a property mogul with buckets of cash and I feel i’m being treated like a complete fool. Don’t know who to report this to, it’s so poorly regulated. I’m just going to give notice and get the property back, but I’m so scared as to what I’ll see when I open the door to my flat. Pray it hasnt been trashed

By: gemma mercurio

gemma mercurio — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 06:19:19 +0000

choose and move lettings in hackney bloody awful screwed me over they put wrong name of landlord on contract their fee was 100 pound but they decided to take 282,00 out of my deposit utter scum

By: Mark Luffrum

Mark Luffrum — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:49:57 +0000

Have no idea Jools how to email you. Where would I find your email address from?

By: Jools

Jools — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:59:12 +0000

Mar,

The BBC contacted me recently about Taylor. Not sure if they are still looking for landlords but drop me an email and I will forward the name of the person dealing with the prog.

Cheers

Jools

By: Mar Luffrum

Mar Luffrum — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 10:53:08 +0000

I was also one of the many unlucky landlords dealing with Elaine Taylor from the The Letting Shop. I returned back from working abroad in August to find that my property had been vandalised and used to grow weed in. I had paid full management charge to Elaine for obviously no reason. I am now fighting with my insurance policy to try and get the damaged fixed.

By: nita

nita — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:00:18 +0000

Allan and Bath (leaders) Bournemouth – serve tenants with S.13(2) notices which have the ‘services’ left out – minor increases – without the landlord asking or knowing – then pocket the difference.
Scumbags -Their motto is ‘We Let Homes’ (fall to pieces) – no gas checks for 4 ruddy years!

By: Jools

Jools — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:22:59 +0000

Excellent news – this woman has been nailed and has now left the country to go back to Libya. Unfortunately, she stole (allegedly) the bonds of her tenants and has left the landlords severely out of pocket.

Apparently a nice visit by HMRC was the catalyst. Good riddance and enjoy your camel.

Landlords – it is your RIGHT to ask to inspect the Tenant bond holding account to ensure there are monies registered. However YOU will still be responsible for ANY default by the letting agent. If the letting agent won’t let you see their account then get the hell out!!

Jools