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Useless agents made a mistake in tenancy agreement

elvis86 · 2011-05-24 08:23:50

Let me start by explaining that our letting agents are absolutely useless. Nothing is ever resolved by just one phone call. Without fail, the umpteenth time you call to chase something, you are told that "X is on holiday, that's probably why it's not been progressed" (in my office we have this clever system whereby someone…

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elvis86 Posts: 1,399 Forumite

24 May 2011 at 11:53AM

poppysarah wrote: »

Unless they are challenged many LA get away with all sorts of horrid tricks.

There's no regulation required and any monkey can set up as a LA.

It's disgusting really. At the risk of sounding a bit Tory/Daily Mail, it winds me up that those of us who sit between council tenants/housing association tenants/those in receipt of housing benefit, and ownder-occupiers (ie mostly young professionals private renting), seemingly get left out to dry when it comes to housing.:mad:

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