I don't recommend at all this agency. We've paid before leaving our apartment a professional team to clean it and even though they took us an incredible amount of money to do a "proper cleaning". They took advantage of us because we were foreigners and young. We really needed our deposit at the time and we didn't get it. The house was cleaner when we left than when we entered. I even wrote a comment at a time about this and they kind of "gently ask" to retire the comment from here before giving us a part of our money. We were extremely shocked. Also, we didn't even chose it. Our tenant changed agency when we were living there. Really horrible experience.

This agency is unprofessional, disorganised, and dishonest. My partner and I had to leave our previous hone right in the middle of lockdown. Flats were scarce and when we found what we thought would be a nice place to live at a nice price, we moved in For a general review- this agency is extremely strict and regular with inspections but incredibly lax and passé with maintenance. They seem to care about bad reviews as I once had an agent call me within 6 minutes of me posting a negative comment about them in a private Facebook group after they had been ignoring my emails for about a week. You might notice that the overwhelming amount of 5* reviews are from landlords and property owners, which makes sense as Northwood’s number one priority is squeezing every last dime out of tenants while providing 0 service. Unprofessional- This agency has been incredibly condescending to me on several different occasions. They have laughed in my face when I asked where my TWO sets of keys that they lost were. They have responded to emails I sent with “oh alyssa” and implied that I don’t know how to read an attachment when they in fact….didn’t attach it. Disorganised- Northwood letting Edinburgh attempted to schedule flat inspections within weeks of previous flat inspections on numerous occasions. They lost two sets of our keys and refused to take seriously the associated security risk. It took them SIX MONTHS to initiate repairs on our roof that was leaking water and causing mould in the middle of winter. This was six months after we were able to convince them there was a problem and we couldn’t just dehumidify it away. Dishonest- Northwood lied to us about the state of the flat when we moved in. As we moved into the flat in the middle of lockdown we did not have the opportunity to view the flat before we moved in. We asked point blank if there was anything wrong with the flat that we would need to know, specifically in regards to mould and damp, and we were assured that there was not. We got in contact with the previous tenant who confirmed that our roof problem was ongoing and existed during his time in the flat. They also shamed him and his family for not maintaining the flat properly instead of fixing the leaking roof. In addition to this- we were assured as per their check out protocol that if we used one of their recommended cleaners there would be no deduction from our deposit for cleaning. This did not stop them from trying to claim cleaning expenses against us. They also tried to claim money back for bedding left in the flat that was in the flat when we moved in. Wouldn’t recommend.

Watch out at tenancy checkout, they might hold even half of your deposit for "needed cleanings" and "administration fees". ROBBERY

The worst agency! They only care about the landlord and no the tenant! I never had a tenancy agreement with the agency, a wall in the bathroom had a whole for 3 months, the bathroom was in a really bad condition since May 2021 and it was fixed at the end of February this year!

Very bad service, don't know why they need so many guarantors.

Enquired about a property I had found to rent, used the website to enquire about a viewing however asked about dogs since they're advert was poor and didn't state this. Specifically mentioned in my initial email about dogs and if they don't then I don't require any further viewings. Recieved a email following day about viewings and if I wanted to go ahead with one. (Didn't answer my dog question) so presuming this property would consider my dogs. So replied saying yes I would like a viewing. No reply, so phoned to see if they got my email to get a very very rude man on the phone, saying this property doesn't accept dogs!!!! No apology , just a sorry our adverts are shocking and don't state about pets, or sorry this property doesn't, in a more customer friendly way.

Would not recommend. Ridiculous over charge for a rented property. The cleaning fees at the end are also over way over the top, especially when the flat was not clean in the first place when I moved in.

Absolutely horrible agency. I got conflicting information multiple times one what forms needed filling out and overall their application process was poorly explained. When I turned up for my viewing (which had a set time) many other people for different times were queuing outside. There was no organization in selecting who would view the property next so I don't know why they even had us book times. So everyone just had to wait around untill we got our shot and just put all our plans for the day on hold while waited for them.