Had a terrible experience with Breckon and Breckon as a tenant. They attempted to charge us over £550 in end of tenancy charges, stating damage to the flat and no cleaning being done. Their own check in and check out photos demonstrated the claimed damages were present BEFORE OUR TENANCY, as well as showing that the flat was to a sufficiently clean standard. Luckily enough, we were able to proceed through an arbitrator who agreed with us and reduced the end of tenancy charge to less than half of what was originally claimed. Not after a huge amount of stress on our part. I think trying to charge us for damages that were present prior to our move in is extremely disingenuous of Breckon and Breckon, and seems like an approach to try and extract as much money as possible out of tenants. If you are a tenant with B & B, beware! Finally, I see the normal response to these negative reviews is to offer to call an operations manager - I can say with all honesty, I would rather run through stinging nettles and have a lemon juice bath than deal with this organisation again.

We had a GREAT start and the team were very helpful and lovely to deal with, but it went downhill when we moved out and an independent adjudicator sided with us and verified that Breckon and Breckon Summertown had used some extremely shady tactics to extort exorbitant end-of-tenancy charges from us (like covering damage in photos with pot plants and trying to charge us to fix it). Fortunately we had taken our own photos. It’s clearly a dodgy business tactic to charge the maximum amount of end-of-lease charges and see if people bother/have enough evidence to challenge it. Because of this I would 100% recommend that everyone uses the Flatfair Deposit Scheme option. Through the Flatfair system, an independent adjudicator can be appointed to make a decision on the final payment. The adjudicator sided with us and saved us £350+ and confirmed to us that Breckon and Breckon’s case to extort funding was baseless and they had tried to dupe us on several incorrect charges. I would also recommend that you take A LOT of photos when you do the walk-through and point out every single bit of damage pedantically, or they will try to charge you for it on the other end, and take your own DETAILED photos when you leave. Don’t get caught - take the Flatfair option and get an independent adjudicator because when you move out they will try to screw you out if every single cent and it’s a huge amount of stress. I’m extremely disappointed in Breckon & Breckon’s behavior because we loved dealing with their lovely team initially, but this has caused so much unnecessary stress and made us feel like profit was prioritized way above professionalism.

At the end of the contract, a big chunk of the caution was kept with very little justification. Disappointed

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Unfortunately we rented a property from B&B. Once we left the property the estate agents held back our deposit. They did not thoroughly check the inventory checking in report against the check out report which resulted in us going to a …

A very successful and professional company .But …….unfortunately they have a person who is very bad at dealing with customers and is not good at his job. I feel sorry that good company does employs this type of employee. They must be …

Absolutely unprofessional agency, they re-arranged a viewing for a flat twice with the excuse they had to move the viewings day and that no one would view it until the last arrangement. They contacted the next day to cancel the viewing appointment as “the flat was rent by another agent”. Better stay away, unreliable and unprofessional.

Most unsupportive and unprofessional company I have ever encountered. Moved in to a house that was covered in mould and had to request the property be cleaned on numerous occasions only to receive a leaflet claiming the mould was down to condensation. When the mould was finally cleaned by a contractor the work done was cheap and shoddy and problems resurfaced almost immediately. Then when it came to moving out we were requested to have the house professionally cleaned, which we did and they came back saying the house was not cleaned to a professional standard supplying pictures they took of the mould and other issues we came to them with at the start of the tenancy. We were then charged out of our deposit for uncleanliness, even down to 1 grain of rice in a cupboard even though we had the whole house professionally cleaned. The deposit was only returned after constantly emailing and asking them for it 22 days after leaving the property. DO NOT USE THIS MONEY ROBBING COMPANY.

I rented a property managed by in-house and they tried to hold back part of my deposit claiming it is for freshening up of the property as well as mould damage. These claims were untrue and it’s amazing that I kept a detailed record or the property through photos and emails. We went through the dispute resolution and clearly I was in the right. Dishonesty is disgusting. Jon, honesty is the best policy.