A few month ago myself and a friend were looking to rent a property. I contacted Charles David via Facebook and email to just be totally ignored. My friend contacted them also as we found property’s under their name that we wanted to view. We tried with this company about 4 times via phone, email or Facebook and every time we were fobbed off with an excuse, we never ended up viewing properties from them as was told they would be in touch and we never heard. I would like to say this is probably down to the pandemic but we also tried with them a couple of years before hand and was literally given the same treatment. They are very good at making you feel your taking up their valuable time and that you are inconvenient. They obviously don’t have the time for renters so don’t know what they would be like if you were buying a property. Really disappointed both times and would now not even consider contacting them if we were looking again, we would be wasting our time.
ABSOLUTELY NO! The worse experience I have ever had renting in my whole life. AND I am a landlord myself! Disaster experience!
If i could leave no stars i would, been renting a property from here for a month now, after viewing we was told that the property would be redecorated and professionally cleaned, which it was not! Also one of our bedroom windows is broken and causing the whole property to be freezing cold, forcing us to sleep in the front room to keep heat in. To this day its still not fixed! Then our goto person at this shambles of an agencie asks for a good review.. What an absolute joke!
Terrible experience so much so I am now in contact with ombudsman. Landlords be weary.
Avoid if you don't want a bad experience.
Poor experience, booked viewing for Saturday, explained time constraints they tried to re arrange to suit their needs, when they knew the constraints I had so not surprised when Friday evening they cancelled viewings, no apology and always had to chase to speak to someone.
Terrible with regards to letting my property. No checks of property done. No notice of tenants leaving date. (Tenant gave them 1 months notice). No one available to speak on phone every excuss given! Not impreseed with service at all. Now left with vacant property.
Awful company to deal with. Gave back a non refundable deposit. Would not take down advert on rightmove when they have no right to advertise my property. Steer well clear of them.
Dealt with Alex and made an above asking price offer and sent a my mortgage in principal to him was assured it would take 24 hours to get back to me, that was on a Thursday......... fri, sat , Monday and still no word from Alex. Which I was upset about as I had told about my sons motorbike accident and the fact his paralysed now and I need a house close to my work to be able to take care of him......Monday I rung 3 times only to be spoken quiet abruptly to be a female who kept telling me i was ringing the “ Letting number “ and couldn’t slam the phone down quick enough. Even though it’s the only number . Alex was suppose to be in the office again at 1 so by 3.30 I again called and hey presto Alex. Which I was hoping was no news was good new but only to be told he had just got off the phone with the sellers and they had excepted the other offer as they had upped the price over the weekend but when I had spoken to Alex at the weekend he didn’t mention non of this as I would have upped my offer too. I asked why he had not given me the opportunity to increase my offer rather than just shoot me out of the water, again a lot pathetic chat about nothing ( basically telling me lies ). When I asked to speak to the manager Alex said he was busy on the phone yet when I said I’d wait he the turned round and said he went into the office and he wasn’t there. Cannot believe how such a bunch of people can carry on like this- 100% un-professional, no communication skills, they have failed to even give a proper, fair service to all customers. I would never be wasting my time with them again as they seem very selective in the sales. Personally I would warn all to go else where as talking to others this estate agents is not great for reliability anyway, GOOD LUCK
Imperial House, Cottage Place, Victoria Street, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 1NY, South East, UK, CM1
Charles David Casson is a family owned, independent, award-winning estate and letting agent for Chelmsford and the surrounding areas. With over 150 years of combined experience, we are dedicated to achieving the best results and making your move as stress free as possible. We’ll be there whenever you need us, from the first stage to the last, and beyond.