Dear Ben, Whilst I am happy to hear from clients I am afraid that in this case given the inaccuracies and innuendoes in your comments I feel I must respond. Having looked into your case it appears that you called the office prior to the bank holiday weekend to make what to use your words was a ‘cheeky offer’, well below the advertised rent. Now there is nothing wrong with this and in fact we encourage it, but we are legally and contractually required to refer offers to the landlord. You were told this at the time and also I believe that given the level of the offer it would be unlikely that the landlord would accept it. On the following Monday when we partially re opened we received another enquiry from someone who wanted the property at the advertised price. When you called you were told this and increased your offer to the same level. Both parties were told to complete the referencing paperwork and were told that no application would be accepted until we had completed applications. You and they submitted the paperwork and because we had two applicants either of whom would have been suitable in our eyes we asked the landlord if they had any preferences. Disappointingly for you in this case they chose the other applicant. My staff then explained the situation to you and told you that because we were happy with your paperwork if there was another property you were interested in then we would accept an application for that. At no time did we tell you we would take the property of the market for you or the other party, we don’t do that until a completed application and holding deposit has been received and we wouldn’t accept an application until the landlord agreed the offer. Additionally we did tell you that your ‘offer’ would have to be agreed by the landlord, as we are legally obliged to do. Fundamentally you made the choice to make a lower over forcing us to refer it, there is nothing wrong with that but it was your choice. If you had offered the advertised rent and completed the paperwork etc then the property would have been off the market at that point and no other offers would have been entertained. I am afraid that I feel that in this case you have given us a poor review for fundamentally doing our job and you not getting what you want. Well sometimes that’s just the way it goes. Regards, Nick Horan