AVOID NICHOLAS HUMPHREYS: They exist only to exploit students withholding deposit after abysmal treatment of the tenants throughout the year. Renting with Nicholas for the past year has been an absolute nightmare. It was a bad start with renovations not being completed which delayed our move in date by a week, whilst we still payed full rent through this. Then when we arrived at the property some rooms were still not liveable with one room not even having a bed frame. Later the builders returned to do disruptive and unnecessary renovations (we later found out this was because the landlord would not pay them in full until they were happy with their work). For the weeks they were in the house, living there was almost unbearable. They were constantly in our small kitchen+sitting room which was now filled with rubble and building materials meaning we could never relax. We would come into the kitchen to find them drinking our beers and they would barge into our rooms, sometimes in the morning while we were still in bed. They also picked up some of my dirty laundry to move it out of the way making a comment that they’d “seen it all before” which I found inappropriate. After we found out that they were planning to repaint the kitchen and completely replaster the hallway we insisted to Nicholas they must go and they finally ceased the work and fired them. This was not the last of our problems, the shoddiness of the work resulted in many problems including shelves collapsing and blinds falling off, many times we were blamed for causing the damage when it was clearly the result of the poor work. The worst problem caused by the builders work was a HUGE hole in the hallway ceiling caused by the improperly fitted bathroom above, which constantly let water through to leak onto the fire alarm and was never repaired for the remainder of the tenancy (this was months). Whenever we had maintenance issues it would never be a prompt reply, with work that should have been classed as urgent taking days to be addressed. To top it all off now they are withholding our deposit, with some ridiculous cleaning claims such as a smudge on a mirror, or cobwebs when we had to deal with and clean the rubble left by the builders (when they were fired they just left this and building materials in the house). Or they are charging for “damage” to furniture for allowable wear and tear (especially when accounting for the quality of these items) citing that “it was new at the start of the tenancy”, as well as trying to charge for damage caused by the poor work, such as mould around badly fitted windows. NEVER CONSIDER RENTING WITH NICHOLAS HUMPHREYS edit: Also Nicholas Humpreys did not respect our privacy by frequently not giving 24hrs notice for house visits