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Redbrick Properties, Leeds

A selection of reviews/testimonials by highest rating
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2.00 /5

I felt confident and happy when Harry from Redbrick came to value my house, he talked with knowledge and interest. I immediately felt good rapport and developed a good feeling towards this company. I was offered good terms and a month without management charges for them to short term let my property which I was very happy with. However this offer was later retracted once I’d decided to go with the agent and it was only reinstated when I sent over an email I had received from them confirming that they had offered a month free to me. At this point I felt that they had changed something quite fundamental before we’d started to do business together. I lost trust in them immediately and decided it would be better to try elsewhere. Your staff are brilliant Redbrick but how your business is run needs to be more consistent so as to build trust with your customers.

Reply from agent

Good morning Hannah, many thanks for taking the time to leave a review. Obviously, I would have preferred it to have been more favourable but all feedback is good to listen to. I've spoken with Harry who has explained he should have communicated the terms and conditions of the 3 Months Free Management* offer clearer to you from the off. So, please accept our apologies for this. We are able to offer 3 Months Free Management* on 12 month tenancies only, and not 6 months as you requested. It just wouldn't be financially viable once we had carried out a free 360 Degree Matterport Video as well as all the social media targeted marketing we do for our landlords. Then there's all the viewings and administration that goes into ensuring the tenants pass the Right to Rent checks and the processing of applications. We would operate at a loss unfortunately. When Harry came to me and explained he had met a really great landlady who had an excellent property to market, but only wanted a 6 month tenancy, I explained to him we would not be able to offer the free 3 months management, which he would have explained to you. He then came back to me to ask if there was anything at all we could do for you, and because he was so sold on both yourself as the landlady and your property I agreed to give you one month free management, which we have never done for anyone else. Harry then communicated this to you but I believe he did not hear back from you. So, once again, I am sorry we did not communicate our terms and conditions of the offer correctly, and we will most definitely learn from this. The offer of one month free management which was a bespoke offer is still there for you, and I can promise you would not be disappointed with the service. Kind regards, Matt (Director).

2.00 /5
Reply from agent

Hi Rob, thanks for taking the time to leave a rating. I've had a look through our records and can see that you have not been a tenant with us this year, although I see you lived in Headingley Mount between 2019-2020. From all accounts the tenancy looked to go rather smoothly, although I see the landlord deducted £50.00 at the end of your tenancy for a house clean. Please feel free to contact me directly if there is anything you would like to discuss about your tenancy. My email address is matt@redbrickproperties.co.uk. Many thanks, Matt (Director).

2.00 /5
Reply from agent

Hi Sean, thanks for the review rating. I see you were a tenant at Graham Street and you left this rating around the time of your deposit return. Please would you email me (matt@redbrickproperties.co.uk) and let me know where we went wrong with our service. This will help me make positive changes to the service we provide to our current and future tenants. Thanks, Matt (Director).

1.00 /5

Illegally operated thieves that do not follow correct procedures

1.00 /5

If you are a professional, or staying for more than a year, do not rent with Redbrick. I rented with them for 6 years, reported all maintenance issues and for the first few years they were ok. Then the property started to have problems, and it was clear they had spent years just patching thinks up on the cheap. They left me with a hole in the roof for weeks as they sent 5 roofers (without telling me they were coming) round to try and get the cheapest quote and someone who would do it without needed scaffolding so it was cheaper. The damp they kept painting or wallpapering over. I reported a lot of issues, then decided not to renew, so they then sorted nothing out, leaving me with damp, windows hanging out of the frames, a kitchen that was unsafe as the cupboards were too low and were over the cooker and walls without wallpaper, that they removed to ‘let the damp dry out’, then just never returned to re-do and water coming through the walls in the kitchen whenever it rained. They then had the cheek to say I hadn’t cleaned properly when I moved out, even taking pictures of the cracked windows, hanging out of the frames saying I hadn’t cleaned them. Said they would give me a chance to go back in and clean. They eventually saw sense, but caused me stress for a few days before giving my full deposit back, as I had all the evidence of how they had not maintained the property. There was also several times when they gave keys to contractors even though I had not given them permission, so potentially could have had people letting themselves in the house. I would recommend screen-shotting everything and all messages sent to them if you do rent with them, as you will prob need it!

1.00 /5
Reply from agent

Hi Jasmine. I cannot find you on our database, so please would you check you have the correct company. I'm happy to have a chat with you if you wish to call me directly on 0113 2305552, or if you would complete the feedback section if you believe you do have the right agency, I would be interested to hear your review. Many thanks, Matt (Director). 03/08/22 - Hi Jasmine, I'm still waiting to chat with you. Or, if you have realised you were not one of our tenants but another company, please would you remove this review and put it on their Google Review instead. Many thanks, Matt (Director)

1.00 /5
Reply from agent

Good morning Frazer, thanks for your rating. Not what I like to see by any means. I did some investigations into why you may have given us this low rating and see it was at the same time as one of your messages to us went unanswered for 12 days, which is not good enough on our part. I see you were given your full deposit back at the same time so I can only assume our lack of communication was the reason. Just so you know, since this has happened our web-developer has completed an update which now makes any unanswered messages very apparent so we do not make this mistake again, so I must thank you in making us aware of this issue. Please accept my apologies for this and I wish you all the best of luck with the future. You were great tenants and we'd love to have you back again one day. Many thanks, Matt (Director).

1.00 /5
Reply from agent

Hi Joe, thanks for your feedback. I see you lived in Village Place last year and the deposit return was definitely a rocky one. The landlady wanted to be involved in this process following her contractor visiting the house and finding things that should not have been in the house. I am sorry you thought our service let you down. I will definitely have a look back over your tenancy and see where we could have served you better. Please accept my apologies for this. Matt (Director).

1.00 /5

I rented a property with the agency in 2019/20. The property was good and the price what adequate considering the location (the property now is with another agency). However, the communication is horrible with the agency. If you want some headaches over house and deposits then choose it. If you want a peaceful living, never sign with Redbrick Properties. We lost electricity on the ground floor and reported it to the agency. After a week of them not coming to fix it we bought an extension cord (so we can have electricity at least in the kitchen from the sockets not affected by the problem). The maintenance person made a conclusion that it is the extension cord causing lost electricity. After multiple calls, multiple reporting they came to fix it. Overall - we lived exactly for 31 days without electricity and then Redbrick Properties wanted to take money out of the deposit because apparently it was the extension cord we been using to cause the problem (we kept using the cord after they fixed the problem and electricity was fine). During winter we lost hot water in the house. We reported it immediately. However, it was fixed only after 7 days. At the end of the tenancy we cleaned the house and they still manage us to charge 80 pounds from a deposit for a 'deep clean'. Funny thing is that their report states, agency needed 5 cleaners each to work for 5 hours to clean a 3 bedroom already clean house. When asked, they said 'new tenants complained that it wasn't clean enough'. But the house is with another agency so if anything new tenants only could have complained to their agency not Redbrick. Here are only some points, I am not even mentioning that the house was extremely dirty when moving in (we asked to clean it), the other ways agency took our deposit. Please, save yourself your mental health and time and consider another agency. My mistake was to see a good rating on Google reviews and to ignore a few bad reviews. I ended up wasting lots of time just communicating with them, living a month without electricity in kitchen, living room and one of the bedrooms, living a week without hot water.NegativeProfessionalism

Reply from agent

Good morning Deimante. I understand that you may not be happy with MyDeposits' decision to award your claim against the cleaning to the landlord, but on the evidence presented I really do feel it was the right decision. With regard to the electrics I can see you reported the job on the 24/09/20 and it was completed by the 30/09/20. This is too long in my opinion and you should have been kept informed over those 6 days exactly why it was taking longer than expected to complete. This has taught me how important communication is between the agent and tenants when an issue occurs. We have now put a process in place to keep tenants updated when issues cannot be fixed immediately. With regard to you having no hot water, there is nothing on FixFlo to suggest this, although the landlord did replace your electric shower in January. It's never good to receive a bad review, but I understand your frustration which we will learn from. I wish you all the best in the future. Kind regards, Matt (Director).

1.00 /5

Awful! We had so many problems with Redbrick Properties over our tenancy in 2019/2020. First of all, when we collected our keys from the office, the staff informed us the house was ready. When we arrived at the house, both the bathrooms had been ripped out, and were scattered around the house (e.g. old WC basins on the landing, old shower cladding up and down the stairs) and building equipment in the bedrooms. The house was uninhabitable so we had to move back home. After 6 months of fighting and arguing our case, redbrick finally refunded us 3 weeks rent for the period we could not live in the house. Shortly after Christmas when we moved back in, the boiler broke, leaving us with no heating or hot water. We informed redbrick immediately and after 3 days, they sent the handyman round who failed to identify the problem. after a few more days, an electrician was finally sent out, who managed to sort the problem. Altogether, we were left a week with no heating or hot water in January, while doing our January exams. A few months later, the new bathrooms that caused so many issues over summer, started leaking into the electrics of the house. The fire alarm was going off over night, and the only way we could fix this was by turning the electrics off at the fuse box. We contacted redbrick, who took 4 days to sort this issue, meaning we had 4 days of water leaking into the electrical system of the house, and no fire alarm. When we moved out and our deposits were returned, redbrick tried to charge us for call outs regarding the drains. We did not make these call outs. After months of trying to get into contact and getting no response, my housemate mentioned small claims court to them, and the money for these call outs was returned. Cowboy landlords, stay well clear!NegativeProfessionalism

Reply from agent

Hi Oliver, your house at Ebberston Terrace did turn out to be a nightmare and I can only apologise for that. Our fault totally as we trusted a new building company to install two new bathrooms for you, but they managed to get the plumbing totally wrong, hence having to have another company reinstall them. Yes, we managed to get a rent refund for you but still, not what you need going into a new house. With regard to the heating issue, I'm glad that we had that fixed for you, although I would have preferred if the engineer could have sourced the parts quicker. The leak that occurred was unfortunately due to a build up of hair in the shower drains. This happened twice over the course of your tenancy, hence the deduction from your deposit. I made the decision to refund this back to you as recognition of the issues you had previously had when you moved in. So, I apologise for the issues you encountered. We learned a lot from this experience and as a result have put measures in place to avoid this in the future. You were a great set of tenants and I wish you all the best with the future. Kind regards, Matt (Director).

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