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Belvoir - Birmingham Central

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1.00 /5

They have good properties on their website but their customer serviced isn’t welcoming at all and rude. My first viewing was 20 mins late and and second one was cancelled an hour before the appointment and my third appointment apparently wasn’t on the system even though I have an email from them.

Reply from agent

Hi Vogell, We are sorry to learn about your experience here and would like you to email us at birminghamcentral@belvoir.co.uk and we will be able to look into this further. In regards to viewings - sometimes due to things out of our control we may be slightly delayed in attending viewings but will always communicate this with the client. Likewise in terms of cancelling viewings - we do try do this in good time but again this can sometimes be out of our control. Thanks Belvoir!

1.00 /5

Booked a viewing and and reconfirmed a day earlier. Just before the viewing we got an sms that viewing is cancelled. We drove 1.5 hours for the viewing but the person Major Mahil was so incosiderate and rude when we called for rescheduling. He was driving when we called but in his sms he said viewing is not possible due to sickness. Very unprofeasional and rude to say the least.

Reply from agent

Hi Tausif, Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances the viewing had to be cancelled - you was contacted and informed at the earliest opportunity we had, we note this was not ideal and we do apologise for this but this was out of our control. Thanks.

1.00 /5

Absolutely disgusting company. Properties will be rented to you not painted with faulty appliances that will leave you needing to run to laundrettes for months and they won’t care about the money you’ve had to spend. They will also threaten to evict you with no legal reasoning by screaming at you over the phone and not follow up with anything in writing. (Which is a common theme I’m seeing in other reviews as well) Clearly some kind of family run company of bullies with completely power hungry staff who will treat you as badly as you let them then cry abuse when you dare to call them out. I hope to god I never have to deal with these people ever again, but clearly they care about responding very personally to reviews, accusing them of being fake and airing people’s private information publicly— which is a perfect example of their priorities as a ‘company’.

Reply from agent

Hi Frankie, We believe this review to be fabricated as your name does not appear on our systems. All properties are rented out with working appliances and these are tried and tested prior to any move in's taking place. I can also assure you we are not 'bullies' nor 'power hungry' - seems you are clutching at straws. All reviews are responded to honestly, openly and with transparency as shown with this reply also. Thanks.

1.00 /5

UPDATE: As predicted, Belvoir, who failed to provide any evidence for the tenancy dispute for weeks only took a few days to respond to this review! And what an unprofessional response it is! "You seem to have quite a lot to say for a indivudual who wasn't actaully a tenant of ours" Really? That's what you're going with? The hasty spelling mistakes alone reek of taking this review personally rather than accepting any fault or criticism. You didn't respond to my partner's emails when she was obliged to deal with you, so why would she send you one now when she's not obliged to? Instead of trying to write smarmy replies to Google Reviews that make you look terrible to potential new landlords, perhaps accept that your staff were clearly incredibly unprofessional in this instance and perhaps look at your internal practices that allowed an unwarranted cleaning charge to end with weeks of dispute, and most likely an extra cost to your landlord (Can't confirm, but generally if a tenant doesn't cover something an agent will push it the landlord's way) _________________________________ Disclaimer: This is the experience my partner had with Belvoir, I can attest to and am disturbed by their lack of professionalism as a former estate agent of 6 years. My partner has just received the remainder of her full deposit back after 2 months of “dispute” with Belvoir. I use that term lightly as while correct, there was no actual dispute to be had. Belvoir tried to claim £150 from my partner’s deposit, citing cleaning costs. This was a small, studio apartment that was left clean to the point of the agent admitting it was clean in an email. When we tried to point out that £150 for cleaning a flat they agreed was clean was unreasonable and unjustified, they attempted to point out things that were clearly noted on the initial inventory prior to the tenancy. (No exit inspection was formally provided, by the way) Due to them not budging on this (or simply not replying to emails), it ended up going through TDS as a dispute. Both sides have to present evidence that we’ve tried to come an agreement, we pointed out that all of their claims were items that were clear wear and tear from the initial inventory. Belvoir attempted to split this cost across my partner and the landlord while completely missing the point that the things they wanted my partner to pay for were pre-existing conditions mentioned on their own inventory. Belvoir then, after multiple attempts to contact and multiple chances to provide their own evidence, simply failed to do so, leaving TDS to return the money weeks later. It is clear to me that Belvoir attempted to get away with charging for a clean, hoping to make a quick bit of contractor commission without properly thinking through the consequences (note: not reviewing their own inventory before making claims of uncleanliness) All of this, without even touching on the situation that occurred during my partner’s move-in phase (Not being told correct move in date, debt on electric meter, broken freezer, being given keys to another property instead!) leads me to believe that this is an agent that works for themselves first and foremost (assuming the landlord had to take this unfair cleaning cost on the chin) I would avoid this agent whether I was a landlord or tenant. (I look forward to them responding to this review while they were unable to respond to any criticism or emails privately!)

Reply from agent

Hi Steve, You seem to have quite a lot to say for a individual who wasn't actually a tenant of ours. If the tenant can contact us at birminghamcentral@belvoir.co.uk to address any concerns she might have that would be great as due to GDPR I cannot disclose any information about the mentioned case here as your name is not party to any past tenancy of ours. Thanks Belvoir.

1.00 /5

I had the unfortunate experience of dealing with this property agent, and I can't express how terrible it was. This person's rudeness and disrespect are beyond belief. They clearly have no concept of customer service or basic human decency. If you value your sanity and self-respect, stay far, far away from this agent. We have had a viewing and even paid the deposit of 206 pounds they said everything is ok then somehow told us that you have failed to get reference and we will be needing a garentor for this and they said this on Saturday and today Monday morning i call them and even my garentor who is a responsible and respectful British citizen they talk Very very rudely and said we are putting it again on sale and we will not return the deposit also.which is totally unfair. Sorry to say but stay away from these kind of brokers present in market.

Reply from agent

Hi Mr Syed Osma Munib & Mr Syed Yousaf, We note you have left this review due to your failed referencing checks. You had to be earning 2.5x the annual rent (combined) in order to pass referencing here which you informed us that you do earn this to which the referencing proved otherwise. We was then contacted by a 'guarantor' who indeed abused our colleagues verbally when this person had no connection with the property whatsoever on application stage as the landlord didn't even agree to this in the first place..? I firmly suggest going forward you provide valid and truthful information instead of false and fabricated information. To add to this further we have been told by Syed Munib that if we return holding deposit monies he will look to remove this review, we will not be brought into such blackmail and therefore will make our point clearly and strongly as seen on this reply. Thanks.

1.00 /5

Read it all. One of the worst companies and worst staff I have ever come across. We just booked a few properties to visit and upon arriving at one of the properties, we simply called to check in. The Individual called Major was utterly useless and beyond rude. He said If you can’t wait 2 minutes you can leave the site. He also arrived minutes later and never bothered to call us to regroup. We had to go up to him. He was very rude on the call before. When we confronted him of absurd customer service behaviour, he said proceeded to be aggressive and defensive. I had used one f word towards the situation and what his behaviour was. At no point i raised my voice or was abusive to him personally . We left the viewing and proceeded to the office to complain and to our shock, the individual did not even hear what I had to say. They started to scream at me and tell us to F Off from the office. He also swore at my brother in law in punjabi and he used a very foul word to describe him . Everything about this company is unacceptable and they are damaging the reputation if of the brand. We will be taking this matter further. Be careful about these guys they clearly have anger issues.

Reply from agent

Bhavkhandan Singh, We firstly would like to add we take a zero tolerance of verbal abuse to staff and during the viewing it was recorded that you did in fact proceed to become abusive towards the lettings negotiator - constantly swearing and this was also witnessed by multiple other viewers at the time who have today given witness statements - as you can appreciate your behaviour of yourself and your family was witnessed by independent witnesses and the matter is now being dealt with externally. At the time of the viewing, it was recorded that you had very aggressive nature and we advised that we would not be recommending you to our landlords’ properties and of course have let other agents in Birmingham City Centre aware given the aggressive approach you chose to take here as we must ensure the safety of our staff. It was further noted yourself alongside another two family members proceeded to approach and enter the office even though we had advised you that we will not be entertaining you as potential tenants. Our office CCTV have captured you not only abusing but threatening two staff members of the team again in a aggressive manner and it can be seen which we will demonstrate and caught on CCTV you with “clench fists” and the CCTV has been passed over - we have circulated this with fellow agents in Birmingham City Centre. As mentioned, we will not tolerate any violence, abuse nor threats you’re your details have been passed over to the Police to investigate further - we note that you are also under the name of Bhavkhandan Singh which was under the contact number of 07432279190. If you continue to make threats, we will have no further option but to involve out legal team who are on standby on the defamatory comments made and we hope we have made our intentions very clear in this matter due to the severity of your conduct and the abuse received from you and your family.

1.00 /5

I’ve had one of the worst experience of my life with them. I moved for a year in one of their apartments that had mould. I had to wait and beg for 5 months to have someone to clean it and my flatmate got a severe allergy to mould do to their negligence. We ended the contract earlier with a notice of one month in advance. They are saying our deposit will be taken as we did not give any notice and because “there was no sign of mould” (we ourselves cleaned the apartment as much as we could). One of the employees told us that there will be no deduction from our deposit but now they’re saying the exact opposite. From experience, do not rent anything with them :). Save your time and money.

Reply from agent

Hi Iulia, We note the contents of your review and would like to mention the following. We had sent contractors on multiple different occasions to the apartment upon reports from yourself and Alessandra to which we was notified all had been sorted, furthermore you were both in a fixed term contract until October 2023 which we indeed let forgo by allowing you to vacate early. May I also add that deposits are handled via the TDS scheme and not at any one point has a colleague mentioned this will be 'taken' - this will be dealt with in normal protocol following a checkout of the property which is normal formalities of the moving out procedure. Thanks Belvoir.

1.00 /5

Would never deal with the Birmingham central office 1 chap in there is offensive and abusive over a set of keys for planned works

Reply from agent

Belvoir Birmingham Central have a zero tolerance on abusive language and if you do come into our office to collect keys as a contractor we would expect the person to be respectful and we have CCTV available showing you swearing at the staff when you were asked politely to leave, should you wish to raise your complaint please follow our complaint process and email the management team at birminghamcentral@belvoir.co.uk

1.00 /5

Hello, i would like to say i will never be returning as a customer. Major started threatening me with lawsuits i only came for a house. He done this many times and this will be his last, Major you know i love you, but this a step too far.

Reply from agent

Dear Sirs, We would like to respond to this review which we believe to be fake / fabricated on the basis, firstly there is no name to this reviewer and “play too Legit” does not come across as a professional account, also it is noted that you mention a house you was shown around when we are in fact agency that only specialises in apartments so we are very much at loss as you have failed to in fact mention a property. All our staff are professional and trained to a very high standard and at no stage would our staff make threats of lawsuits at the viewing and we do find the review very unprofessional in terms of the comments made, we would welcome you to share the date and time of viewing together with full name of whom the booking was made under rather than a fake account which has been made up here. We aim to deliver the best levels of customer service and also that we are heavily regulated by the property Ombudsman and UKALA we treat all of our customers in an fair, honest and transparent manner.. All complaints are taken seriously here at Belvoir Birmingham and we can refer you to our online complaints procedure if you would like to make a genuine complaint which is not fabricated as we believe this one is as we have no details of booking especially under name of “Play Too Legit”. Thank you.

1.00 /5

Staff are unresponsive, don't send application forms, and ghost you. Not to mention the standard estate agent prejudice against students and the disabled.

Reply from agent

Hi Lex, I can see your emails were responded to and we did have several offers on this specific property in which the landlord did choose to go with a offer that was not yours. This has nothing to do with prejudice towards any background - it is just a landlord choice. Thanks Belvoir.

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