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Country Properties - Welwyn Garden City

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3.00 /5

We initially thought we had found a true gem in Country Properties amongst the barren irritating hell-scape of Estate Agentry. Dave Maple in particular was superb in providing honest, friendly and accurate advice while showing us around properties and in his communication. This goodwill was however totally undone by the wider Welwyn Garden City Country Properties team when we neared the completion of the purchase of our first house. There were delayed communications and miscommunications between them, us and the seller. The worst aspect by far was the actual completion day when none of the Estate Agent team were available (although all were working that day) to ensure the successful completion and exchange of keys. We had worked incredibly hard to progress our purchase rapidly and this final - extremely stressful day was made even worse by their unavailability at this critical point and the simultaneously obtuse and incompetent actions of the 'Office Manager' Sue. Despite the vendors, both sets of Solicitors and the bank's approving the exchange - the robotic and useless Sue refused to release the keys until she had been called herself. Whilst moving our entire life's worth of furniture on a critical day, she maintained this to our extreme frustration and refused to just call them for permission herself. On arrival at the office she said 'I don't really have a clue what goes on round here' before giving us the keys anyway. Ridiculous. The manager Chris ignored us while entering the office at this point. Finally, they failed to take the sold sign down for 6 weeks despite multiple emails. Poor form at the key end stage. Clearly just the usual base sales people only really interested in money. They were totally unable/disinterested in following through.

Reply from agent

Dear David, Thank you for your review, which I note you have since taken out some of the mistruths to save face on your behalf, your review remains however to read like a harry potter novel. I will leave my original reply below to make it clear just how false your original statement was Purefiction which you obviously out of embarrassment felt the need to edit to save face. Thank you for your review, although I have to politely reply to a few of your coments to firstly educate you in the way that key hand over works and to secondly correct your review which reads like a bad attempt at a harry potter novel due to the fiction within. Firstly, no estate agent can release the keys to the buyer until the vendors solicitor gives them key release, this is based on the point they confirm that the money is in their bank account and not just the fact that the buyers solicitors claim they have sent it, whilst in most instances the money receipt takes less than half an hour to be confirmed it can take up to 4 hours which is why most solicitors deal with completions first thing in the morning to allow for any banking delays. at the point you visited our office the vendors solicitors had not received the funds so were unable to give key release, unfortunatly if the solicitors then go to lunch, we will not hear anything until they get back, but i understand that Sue (the finance manager and nothing to do with sales) was the only person in the office at the time but did everything she could do to attampt to chase the solicitors for a key release. This brings me to the part of your review which is clearly pure fiction, where you suggest that Sue was "Chomping on a kebab" Sue has worked for me for 7 years and is a real lady of habit, she is borderline Vegetarian and brings her lunch with her each day which always consists of crackers, cheese and some salad. if she was eating at her desk, which wilst i dont encourage it i do allow if we are short staffed on any particular day i can without any doubt say she was not eating a kebab. The only thing that i feel i need to opologise to you for is the fact that we did not collect our board from your new home within a few days of you moving in, we use an outside contractor for this and we normaly request collection of our boards on the day of completion, I am unsure why there was a breakdown in the collection process in this instance.

Contact details
Sales Phone:

01707 339146

Lettings Phone:

01707 339146

Opening hours
Monday-Friday: 09:00 - 18:00 Saturday: 09:00 - 17:00
Address

3 Bridge Road, Fretherne Road, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 6UN, UK, AL8

Our professional team members are experts in the local property market and are here to help you with your sale or let, every step of the way. We’ve been working in Welwyn Garden City for over 30 years, and we’re a real part of the local community. We proudly sponsor Isabel Hospice and Welwyn Garden City Youth Hurricanes Football Team. Whether you are a first-time buyer, looking to move to a new family home where you can grow your family, perhaps you are looking to downsize, or you are an investor. Whatever your reason for purchasing or investing a new property we can help you as Country Properties have the experience and local knowledge to guide you through to fruition.

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