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Professional Properties

A selection of reviews/testimonials by highest rating
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1.00 /5
Reply from agent

Hi Mehmet, please can you let us know the reasoning behind your 1 star review.

1.00 /5

Dreadful. Broken oven for over a year. Gaslighting me over a leaking chimney. Claimed it had been fixed. I proved it hadn’t on several occasions. Still didn’t get it fixed. Water coming down the chimney into the bedroom. Lead flashing dislodged from the roof. Did nothing about it. Gutting full of debris. Nothing done about it. New agent has had the oven looked at within 2 weeks. Work on the chimney under way. Would not ever rent a property through these again. Reply to comment below. I reported the oven months ago. At the same time as the chimney for the 4th time. The oven was not fixed as it still did not work. I reported it again. It has been condemned and replaced within a month of new agents taking over. Why has a new agent taken over I wonder? The man who came to look at the chimney claimed it was blocked hence the dampness. Nothing more was done so I called to find out what was going on. I was told the cap had been fixed. Yet I videoed the open chimney and sent it to the office showing there was no cap on the chimney. Work was not checked or followed up. Zero communication. At the end of the day, nothing was fixed under your instruction yet things have with a new agent.

Reply from agent

Hello Nita. There are a lot of inaccuracies in your review. The oven was fixed prior to the landlord moving to another agent and was only reported to us in April 24 which is not 'over a year' ago. With your property, the landlord undertook many of the repair and maintenance issues himself which unfortunately meant the usual timescales in which we attend to reported issues were often not adhered to. We are sorry that your experience with us was not good, however, the chimney issue to which you refer was out taken out of our hands.

1.00 /5

I don't rent with this agent. But in the last 3 weeks I've put in dozens of applications online and multiple phone calls and seen no properties. Total waste of my time.

Reply from agent

Hi Roger. Upon investigation of our systems, we have no leads registered under the name of ‘Roger’ within the last 2 months. Our processes require you to complete a qualification form to register your details. If this isn't carried out, the process will not follow through. If you call our office, one of our team will complete the details whilst you are on the phone and you will be registered on our system. If you would like to contact the office on 01332 300190 we can look into this for you.

1.00 /5

Poor comms and slow in providing deposit feedback. No issues with disputing deposit values just slow and painful process.

Reply from agent

Hi Ben. The deposit return process is dependent upon 4 parties. Agent, Landlord, Tenant and Contractors and therefore the process, unfortunately, can be slow - in this case it appears we could not get hold of the Landlord initially, delaying the process and further delays were experienced when obtaining quotations from contractors. Sometimes there are factors that are outside of our control that contribute to these delays and we cannot always help this. I believe your deposit was processed the day of this review but we do take your feedback on board.

1.00 /5
04.08.2023

Professional Properties do not care about tenants and will do whatever landlords ask to keep them happy. They entered my home without informing me to conduct viewings . when I reported repairs they said we can't make the landlord fix them. They were never done. I reported the garden decking it was rotten, slippery and my son fell over and hurt himself. The patio door was unfixed for the whole of my tenancy and I was anxious of being burgled or attacked. I cleaned the home before leaving and they still tried to withhold my deposit but I disputed it and the aducators awarded my deposit back to me. As requested, I complained in writing and nothing was done. I feel so sorry for new tenants and I would strongly suggest to use any other letting agents as my experience with Haart was excellent.

1.00 /5
Reply from agent

Hello David. We have searched high and low in our systems to find your details to try and ascertain why you would leave such a review - albeit with no comments as to why.However, your name doesn't appear. We are, therefore, intrigued as to your issue and how you have interacted with our business to enable you to leave a review?

1.00 /5

Homeowners: If you share a boundary or live next to a Tenanted property that this company represents, we feel for you. They do not care about legal responsibilities, and managed to ruin neighbourly relations within a couple of months of first dealing with them. Even when owning your your property as we do you will get treated lower than the landloard and treated like a tenant with no rights in the matter, even though we have told them we are the owners they still don't give the respect or decency we deserve or that is to be expected towards another person especially when sharing a boundary. We share a boundary with one of their managed properties, we organised works after one part fell down in bad weather, and put up a lovely, safer new fence, and agreed a low contribution from their landlord due to us wanting to upgrade it understandably. It took them a week to inform us of any problem they had with the work, they claimed there was some tiles that were lifted up by the contractor. However, instead of asking for our contractors details to inquire about the alleged damage (which I gave them anyway) they outright refused to speak to them for no reason other that " I don't take orders from anyone other that the landlord". Now they are with holding our £250 as the Landlord 'had to' pay for extra work that could have been done through the contractor - had they gone about things the right way, no-one would have been out of pocket. It has been terrible management from the beginning and don't even get us started on the dodgy quotes. Now they are using distract tactics (sending us quotes we're not responsible for) which amounts to emotional blackmail. A) we told them to please stop. B) gave them all the contractors details. C) asked for proof that this 'damage' was in fact caused by our contractors and they subsequently showed no evidence to support any of this, with photos over 6 months old. If you do end up dealing with this company for whatever reason do be careful and get everything in writing (although not even that will guarantee they will resolve your situation fairly, but will at least cover yourself). Do not agree any generous terms with them, they will take advantage of your good nature. I would also recommend to avoid speaking with Chris Allison as all he has done is make things worse and now has started to ignore the issue and our emails entirely. He is supposed to be the Head of Property Management so I think that tells you all you need to know about this company. If you are being mistreated do what we are doing and keep at them, learn your rights and get all your evidence in order.

Reply from agent

Hello Josh. I have looked into this in detail and reply as follows. Firstly, we are a letting agent whose role it is to manage the property and the tenancy on behalf of the landlord. We are not authorised or required to get involved in disputes with neighbours... although we obviously did on this occasion to try and help resolve the issue quickly. Your comments about 'emotional blackmail', 'distract tactics' etc. are utter nonsense. I understand that the landlord initially offered to contribute £250 toward the works which, after all the issues, he decided against this. We are not holding any money regarding this issue as per your review, we have never had any money to hold. You have never used our services and are clearly frustrated with the whole situation. However, this is for you to resolve with the landlord directly. It will certainly make us think twice about trying to resolve a situation we shouldn't have got involved in but unfortunately, our team do go beyond their remit sometimes, fortunately, with much better outcomes than this one.

1.00 /5

Absolutely appalling rental agents, money hungry and totally unprofessional!!! They do not care about landlords and are full of S##t

Reply from agent

Wow! A relationship of almost 10 years managing your property with no issues (or so we thought) that ends with a review like this and you won't even take our calls to discuss it. Interesting concept though, a letting agent that doesn't care about landlords - not exactly a great business strategy is it?

1.00 /5

Unfortunately my experience hasn't been good. You don't speak to a human and I was asked 3 times to complete a Profile even though I did it the first time. It took 3 days for someone to answer our enquiry to ciew a propery and we even received an alert daying that the property which matched our criteria only then to be told an hour later that the property was no longer available. No human touch and definitely no customer service. Very disappointed.

1.00 /5

Professional Properties just hate benefit claimants. Demanded a difficult credit report from the tenant. It wasn't enough to have my credit report and my ID as guarantor for the tenant. In answer to Professional Properties' reply below, the free credit report was not easy for my friend to obtain, for whatever reason. they just put every possible obstacle in his way just because he is a benefit claimant, despite him having no outstanding CCJs. If you give him a tenancy at Alkmund Court as requested, then I shall give you a better review. In the meantime, my review stands.

Reply from agent

Hello John. Our email to every applicant applying for a property advises to obtain a FREE credit report from either Credit Karma or Totally Money, both of which give us everything we need at application stage. If an applicant uses a different supplier, then that is against our advice. We didn’t ‘demand’ any report that has to be paid for at all. Your review is factually incorrect and therefore should be removed.

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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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