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Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward - Belsize Park Sales

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I would suggest both tenants and landlords to avoid dealing with KFH at all costs. We rented a property in Belsize Park managed by KFH and experienced a lot of issues in just a year, including illegal actions from their side. Here are the details: - KFH agent illegally entered the property during our tenancy. One of their agents was keen to show the property to someone about 5 weeks before we were due to move out and decided to do so without giving a 24 hour notice as per the contract (he didn't give any notice at all) which caused us a distress (we are a family with a young child). - KFH is not careful with personal data. After we moved out one of their clerks sent us confidential details that were supposed to be sent to new tenants of the property (tenancy agreement, deposit protection details etc.) - KFH ignored conditions of the offer that were included in the contract. We specifically discussed some of the repairs we wanted to be done and included them into both offer terms and tenancy agreement. Upon move in we realised the repairs were not done and it took us about a week of chasing before any actions proceeded from their side even though they were in clear breach of contract. - Tenancy agreement has illegal clauses. Their contracts are not up to date with recent legislations - we were asked to pay a greater amount in council tax that council itself would accept from us. - KFH kept holding our security deposit for 7.5 weeks after the move out date without giving any proposals for deductions or informative communication. After 6 weeks of chasing them we received deduction proposals that should've have taken no more than a week to be made up. - KFH didn't ensure the property is clean for move in. We basically moved in with a young child to a dirty property with hairs and dust all over the place, condoms under the bed and mould in bathroom. We had to urgently organise cleaning at our own expense and seek reimbursement later. - KFH fees to tenants are unreasonably high. £300 for the renewal of the contract is just one of the examples. For the poor service they provide this is unacceptable. - KFH managing agents are extremely slow at communication when an issue arises. In some cases our urgent requests were ignored for days. - KFH wastes tenant's time and landlord's money. As we are landlords in London ourselves we could see how inefficiently they deal with some of the issues sending several contractors to get quotes (4 was our record), performing cheapest possible repairs and not keeping landlord fully aware of the repairs that have been done. KFH managing agents also performed a routine property visit just a week before our move out - a service that landlord pays for as part of their property management service and which was completely useless to the landlord at this point since they will have received a check out report in a week's time anyway. - KFH poorly markets properties. Be prepared to let lots of people through your door when you decide to move out as a tenant. There were about 30 viewings (one without any notice as mentioned above) of the property as we continued staying there before they finally managed to let it to someone. The process of finding new tenants took them nearly 2 months despite the price being in line with the market. As someone renting out a property in London myself, I can see it's simply a matter of inefficient work from their side. Some of the people who came to view had zero interest in the property - so why bring them here in the first place?

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020 7768 2067

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38 England's Lane, Belsize Park, NW3 4UE, Camden, NW3 4UE, UK, NW3

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