While letting the property, John Shepherd were decent agents, with things fixed quickly. The problems start when you leave and they try and charge you from your deposit for nothing more than simple painting/cleaning. All the justification you get is "it's outside fair wear and tear", without ever receiving clarity on what that means. I urge John Shepherd, and all letting agents as a matter of fact, to put tenants first. Provide clarity on what's considered fair, challenge landlords who benefit most from renting to foot the bill for minor damages and make it all make sense.

Good in maintaining the property. Simply, forget your deposit.

Called to enquire about a property. I spoken with Debbie. She was not very polite. When I said the address of the property that I wanted to enquire about, she whispered under her breath "oh god" and sighed. Was not very helpful, I have been asking for the lease information on coppice court for weeks now and they say the same thing to me every time I ask...."we are waiting for it from the vendor"

Very poor service. I resent

Very poor service. I resent the fact that I paid this branch to make this let far more complex, time consuming and costly than had I self - managed the let. Having taken legal advice on their actions, I was advised that they had let me down very badly and that they were not providing me with the correct facts allowing me to access my property or get works done. They failed to pass on my correspondence to my tenants which caused massive problems, and one member of staff even told me that their primary concern was that the tenants were happy and I was of secondary importance. The whole let appeared to be run along the lines of what was the least hassle to John Shepherd. The cost to me of them taking this approach apoeared not to matter to them. I've only given them 2 stars rather than 1 as the branch head appeared to know his stuff ( unfortunately he delegated my let to others who were less capable ) and has offered to try to talk to me about all the mistakes they made. I do feel I should warn others about the service as it certainly fell way way short of what was promised.

Incompetent, unprofessional, pathetic - they are a joke! Reported issues are ignored, when they promise they will back, they never back, they have problem with arranging even simply repairs in reasonable timeframes. If there are more issues, they are lost, it is too complicated for them to manage, so, waiting a half of year or a year for something, it is their standard. Their strategy are: excuses, empty promises and silence/ignoring part of the message/email. And on the end they blame tenant for their failure. I strongly discourage using their service.

Awful. We rented through them for 2 years and any issues we had (and we had a lot!) were either ignored completely or left weeks/months until anyone bothered to sort it. Now we have left and they are charging a ridiculous amount of money for basic cleaning without providing any kind of breakdown. Absolutely do NOT recommend.

I don't leave reviews

I don't leave reviews very often but John Shepherd West Bridgford deserve one. I am absolutely disgusted with this unregulated letting market, trying to remove deposit money for 2 small plastic cracks in a fridge freezer and saying they will need to replace both from our deposit money. Furthermore saying they will need to have it re-cleaned despite us paying £180 for two cleaners to spend 3 hours cleaning it professionally. Prior to this when we lived in the flat we had a low water pressure problem which took them over 4 months to fix, they came up with excuse after excuse before finally offering to fix it a few weeks before we moved out (only because we had to get the council involved to sort it). We then moved into another property with them where the oven had not been cleaned (see pictures attached) yet was told it was just cleaning residue. Also the dishwasher that did not work, we were originally told to try to fix it ourselves? Thirdly in our contract it makes reference to a washing machine, yet no washing machine was present and we had to spend hundreds to buy our own. I cannot believe what these agencies try to get away with, I highly doubt they would even replace the fridge and freezer for such a small crack and new tenants who will soon move in, they just want money money money! Disgusting.