D & J Lettings and Property Management

VERY POOR, UNPROFESSIONAL SERVICE - AVOID! We arranged a viewing of a house to rent on Thursday. When we turned up the current tenant would not answer the door and had put a key in the lock so the agent could not get in. The agent was very apologetic and told us she would rearrange the viewing and make sure we were the first to view the property. We agreed to this and said we were very keen to rent the property, but of course needed to have a look inside before we did. We told the agent that the house ticked most of our boxes and we would likely take it following a viewing. The viewing was rearranged for Saturday, we turned up and the same agent was showing the property to another couple. We were a little shocked after what the agent told us, but we went on with the viewing. The house did tick all our boxes, so despite the messing around we agreed to take it and handed the agent our completed application form. On Monday we had an email to say our application was not successful, as the landlord had decided to go with one of the other applicants. We are VERY frustrated, when we were told we would be the first to view the property... I don' know why an agent would say that to a couple who had told them they'd take the house, pending a viewing and then arrange other applicants to view. This seems very poor and very unprofessional to me.