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Charles David Casson - Chelmsford

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1.00 /5

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.

Reply from agent

Hi Peter, we are sorry to hear you were not satisfied with your experience with us on this occassion. I have checked our system and cannot find a record of your booking but would be happy to investigate further if you can provide some further details. Unfortunately with the nature of our business and having to liase between property owners, buyers and tenants, sometimes viewings do need to be rearranged and sometimes properties are sold or let and further viewings have to be cancelled, inevitably leaving some people disappointed. We appreciate this can be frustrating and we do everything we can to minimise these inconveniences. Please accept our apologies for your inconvenience.

1.00 /5

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.

Reply from agent

Hi Jackie, we are sorry to hear that you were unsatisfied with our service on this occassion. As explained to you and your partner on the phone your tenant did not give any notice to our office and has not been able to prove he gave any notice to us. Unfortunately he left on the last day of his tenancy which is something that very rarely happens but is allowed. We acknowledge that the tenancy was logged on our system as 12 months when in fact it was a 6 month tenancy and therefore our usual renewal process was not followed and we have apologised for this. However until the tenant phoned to inform us he had vacated the property we were not to know he was doing this and he did not give any notice. We spoke to you and your partner numerous times and explained this and remarketed the property immediately but you chose to remove the property from the market with us. We wish you all the best with the property in the future. We have made learning points from this and once again we apologise the renewal process was not followed as usual. However please do be aware that there was nothing we could do to stop the tenant leaving on the last day of their tenancy as this is legally allowed and whilst this is very rare it could happen again in the future.

1.00 /5

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.

Reply from agent

Dear Mr Doyle, I am afraid were legally obliged to refund the deposit to your potential buyer. Your property has been removed from all portal advertising as requested and we wish you all the best in the future.

1.00 /5

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

Reply from agent

Hi Jacquelyn, we are sorry you felt let down on this occasion and if we took longer than usual to respond to you. Inevitably when a property is in high demand someone always feels let down when they were not the successful party and we try and handle this as sensitively as possible but we are sorry if our communication was not as good as it should have been in this case.

1.00 /5
25.09.2018

Rented a property through French and Hill originally which subsequently was taken over by this company. Back in March there was an accident outside the property which resulted in a car crashing through the electricity supply. 5 days without electric with no great instruction on what was happening and in fact my partner was at the property coordinating with the power companies to get things going whilst I was in labour (brought on by stress! We were living in the hotel across the road. We were never reimbursed the rent money for the 5 days we weren’t living in the property just the cost of the hotel which we paid for upfront and only received the cheque in July. My partner emailed the director Neil with a complaint at the time but Neil then went away and we still are to this day waiting on his response. After handing our notice in viewings were held and I basically had to keep correcting the agent as they were telling false info to new tenants and had very little knowledge about property or area. After moving out we still were receiving “your rent is due” emails and texts they were informed and said they would remove all our details from the system, then today after almost a month of vacating the property they FINALLY responded to a Maintenence issue reported back in July and informed me the Maintenence guy would be In touch to arrange a time! You think after being informed that we no longer live at the address they would understand. The service throughout our time at the property made us hate where we lived and made the whole experience of bringing our first born home a tainted and stressful time. I would not recommend their services to anyone.

Reply from agent

Hi Kate and thank you for your comments. You are right that our company acquired the Lettings portfolio of French and Hill back in February so we can’t comment on anything before that point. Shortly after taking over as you explain there was a freak accident where a van lost its trailer which crashed into the electricity box outside the property wiping out the electrics to 3 properties. We were informed via our emergency number at 10pm and in fact it was Neil our director who took this call and loaded with the tenants at that time of night. The issue was extremely complicated with responsibility being passed between uk power networks, EDF and the landlord. We of course only act for the landlord but did everything we could to bring a speedy resolution to this and ensured you were reimbursed by the landlord for your hotel costs. Neil visited your property on an inspection after this event and spoke with you both and also had a conversation with your partner a short while ago and none of this was expressed. We are really sorry that some of our automated systems for maintenance and rent collection have emailed you after you have left the tenancy. We will ensure this stops. We wish you and your family all the best in your new home.

1.00 /5
23.02.2018

Rent a property from these guys and had a broken washing machine for 2 week and nothing has happened. Made phone calls and sent emails but no response I'm not happy.

1.00 /5
11.03.2017

Don't bother going through this estate agent for renting, been messed around so much and myself and my partner have had to chase them up on everything, told dogs were not a problem but when we viewed and were happy to put a deposit down on the house they took 2 days to tell us the owner won't actually accept the dogs and we had to ring and chase them up to find this out, as well as the fact I have seen another comment saying how this estate agency has let themselves into their home I would definitely stay clear of these guys, their response to that as well was that for all their landlords they inspect the property every three months and give notice of the fact they will inspect...however by law nobody can enter your property without your permission not even the landlord or police so I just urge everyone to stay clear of these people!!! Terrible customer service

1.00 /5
25.02.2017
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24.02.2017
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23.02.2017
Contact details
Sales Phone:

01245 835 859

Opening hours
Monday-Friday: 09:00 - 18:00 Saturday: 09:00 - 04:00
Address

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.

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