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Umega Lettings - Edinburgh

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2.00 /5

Very underhanded tactics. After you submit your application with a whole slew of sensitive personal information (including workplace, income, current residence, etc..), they tell you that actually you'll have to pay twice as much deposit as listed on the website, as well as pay 3 months' rent in advance because you don't have a UK guarantor - which was not stated anywhere. Also, you have 2 hours to respond to their e-mail, otherwise you miss your chance.. So you are basically expected to be on call during your work. All this is just disrespectful. Also, they e-mail your personal information back to you, so there's to privacy. If anything, I hope they at least change this one in the future, because it is a major slip-up. But credit where credit's due, all three employees I talked to were very nice and helpful, so I had no issues on a personal level, it's more of a policy problem. Edit: I changed the review from 1 star to 2 after reading their reply to it. The reason why I did it is that it wasn't the run-of-the-mill corporate response that treats you like a child and politely tells you how stupid you are. Instead they gave a genuine response where they acknowledged their mistakes, and gave an explanation without listing excuses, which is the right thing to do. They didn't try to gaslight me with a condescending message, trying to explain how the bad experience I had is actually my own fault. That is commendable, and they earned my respect in that regard! Unfortunately, everything I said before is still true, so it doesn't change the fact that the important information wasn't properly disclosed upfront, but I'm willing believe they had no ill intent as they seem to actually care and are trying to improve. So this second star in the review is me wishing them good luck with their endeavors.

Reply from agent

Hello Robert - firstly, thank you for sharing your feedback. Whilst there are points for us to pick up on with our team (which I absolutely will do), I thought it might be helpful to also clear some things up for your reassurance too. We use the information from your application to make a decision about which tenants are likely to be a good fit for the property. This does not get passed to anyone else, or used for any other purpose. We do share the information filled in by the applicant back to them, so they can check it and also so we can keep an accurate trail of communications with individual applicants as we normally do have multiple applicants for each property. From time to time, we do ask for additional deposit or rent in advance, depending on an applicant's individual situation. Our viewing agents usually do discuss this at the viewing, so apologies that this was perhaps missed at your viewing. Sometimes if viewings are particularly busy, or applicants have a lot of questions things do get missed, so there is room for improvement here, which we'll look into. In terms of the time to respond to an offer, this is something we'll take on board. Again, if properties have been in particularly high demand then we may need an answer more quickly to avoid losing other applicants if someone doesn't want to go ahead - it's a find balance between giving people fair opportunity to let us know what they'd like to do and recognising that most applicants are viewing multiple properties until they secure something, but again, something for us to think about. I'm glad to hear our team were helpful when dealing with them!

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