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Professional Properties

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1.00 /5

Had real trouble with PP when they took over from Birchover managing my property. Very poor communication (except for the spam mail shots). Had a leak in the house and it took them a week (A WEEK!!) to ring me to get my approval for a plumber to go in. It should have been the very next phone call they made. Then took a month to finally sort out. They constantly miss quoted prices - they never tell you that VAT will be added so they are 20% higher than they quote over the phone (*read the small print will be the excuse) but it's just fibs... the prices they quote sound ok until you get the statement. Very slow at paying the money into my account - it now takes over a week from the tenant paying.... Want to charge ME for putting a new tenant on the agreement???!! (adding a name to a piece of paper and printing it out, charging £50 +VAT - which they will also charge the tenant). Just rip-off merchants. Going to use a more professional company instead. May 2021. I unfortunately had to refer Professional Properties to the regulatory body, The Property Ombudsman with a number of complaints, including the inaccurate details on PP's response on Google. The Property Ombudsman found in my favour in respect of every single one of my complaints made, and have ordered PP to pay me compensation (which has been paid promptly). My complaint was never about getting money out of PP, I simply wanted a refund for the time they didn't manage my property, I shall therefore be donating to Shelter to help those that are not fortunate to have a home. The whole thing has been extremely stressful and distressing, not helped by PP's Trump-esk reply to my complaint. I think it speaks volumes about the type of company PP is. Now much happier with the new agents who treat me with curtesy and respect.NegativeResponsiveness, Professionalism, Value

Reply from agent

Hello Mrs Durston-Smith. I'll try and be brief with my reply, however, I will respond to each point that you make. We took over the management of your property in January 19 ( 20 months ago). Looking at the notes and correspondence in out very detailed audit trails , you have threatened to change agents 4 times, including in this review, yet here we still are. If we are as incompetent as you say, why haven't you given formal notice? With regards to the leak - I'm assuming that the 'week' includes the 5 days it took for you to contact us after we called and emailed to discuss the quote we had obtained the next working day from the issue being reported. All of our correspondence (fees, quotes etc.) clearly state that VAT is part of any amount payable if it is appropriate and I assume by the 'small print', you mean the Landlords Terms of Business sent to you on 17th October 2019. Your rent has always been paid over to you within your Terms of Business and, again, we have detailed audit trails to show this. The fee that would have been charged to you for putting a new tenant on the agreement was actually for referencing the tenant (which has to be done in accordance with the terms of the Rent Guarantee policy) and not for 'adding a name to a piece of paper' (by which you mean the Assured Shorthold Tenancy agreement, a 16 page contractual agreement that protects you from any breaches of the tenancy). The charge to the new tenant would have been made as this charge is deemed to be a 'Permitted Payment' under the Tenants Fee Act 2019 (details of which were sent to you in one of the landlord update emails we regularly send out) - 'spam mail shots' you referred to them as in your review. As it transpired, no new tenant was actually added to the tenancy so neither of these charges were payable. I would not usually reply in such detail but if someone leaves a review of this nature, especially one with such blatant inaccuracies, I feel obliged to respond as such.

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Canterbury House, Stephensons Way, Derby, DE21 6LY , UK, DE21

Helping Landlords and Tenants Since 1999 Professional Properties has been matching tenants with their ideal properties since 1999, and is one of the largest independent letting agents in the local area. Our team have a combined 80 years of lettings and property management experience. As well as offering bespoke lettings and property management services, we also sell current investment properties to investors who are either looking to buy their first buy-to-let property or are expanding or refreshing a current property portfolio.

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