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.
Illegally operated thieves that do not follow correct procedures
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!
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
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
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