I really am surprised to see all these good reviews; they seem unreal! We have had quite the opposite experience with them! They have been doing the absolute minimum right from the beginning but charging the absolute maximum for services. When the boiler in the property broke down in the middle of winter, they were so slow to respond. The property was left with really cold water and a freezing cold house. We had to get our own heaters and go elsewhere for taking showers; this was during January exams; imagine the stress. It took 19 days to fix it; when it was eventually fixed, they would not respond to our requests of reducing the rent for the period there was no warm water or heating.
Edit:
It was never my intention to slander or defame Belvoir; I just wanted to convey my experience and impressions of dealing with Belvoir. If you are unclear about any of the detail above, please refer to the previously sent emails.
Edit 2:
The tenancy ended 7 weeks ago but the deposit (£4025) has still not been returned. Belvoir has been slow to chase up the landlord who has had to sort an issue with water bills that is holding up the return of the deposit. Dealing with Belvoir this past year has been, in general, frustrating.
Reply from agent
Dear Mr Nourbakhsh
Thank you for taking the time to add to your edits, however I do need to make some very salient points: I will list them as per below for ease of reading:
As you may or it seems are not aware, your son and his colleagues omitted to set up their Severn Trent water account - you may not also be aware but we absolutely cannot do this for them as it has to be the account holder for obvious GDPR reasons. All students are informed when collecting keys that they must set all utility accounts up themselves, sadly this wasnt done regarding water - we would have not known about this until the cessation of the tenancy, which sadly has held normal closure proceedings up. We could not return their deposit until this bill was set up then closed as I am sure you understand. This meant the students had to contact Severn Trent, set the account up, Severn Trent to calculate readings and then the account closed , I am unsure if you are aware but sadly these utility companies take a very long time to action such processes, I can assure you that our student team assisted all they could to 'move this along'. As a result of this taking so long to be implemented Sylvia contacted the landlord to see if there was a 'way around' this so they could have their deposit returned quickly, the students landlord most kindly said to' just' charge them £100.00 in order for them to have their deposit returned, this was most kind of their landlord as the bill would have been rather more than £100.00!
You state that we charge excessive fees & charges - I can assure you, our fees are not excessive and I suggest you carry out some local research as have we to view what other agents charge - I can also wholeheartedly assure you that we do not 'charge' anything whatsoever to our student nor private tenants - any cost incurred by contractors are the total bill charged - we do not add any commissions or take a 'cut' whatsoever - you will not know but there are many agents who add from 17%,12.5%, £20.00 to each contractors bill for their own financial gain - we have strict morals and do not inflict these extra costs onto our landlords nor tenants.
Once again, the landlord provided the heaters - 'not' the tenants as you repeat.
The students were not charged any cleaning costs, only charges to cover the cost for the hole made in the wall and for the damage to the decor whilst smoking with the window open during heavy rain lashing inside.
None of the tenants disputed this.
This boiler was an 'air source heat pump' boiler and had to have specialist engineer attendance which took far too long in our opinion - it was nobodys fault it stopped working, you will find this can happen in your own property.
The student team have been in constant communication with the lead tenant who has this week sent us an extremely nice thank you email for all of our assistance! I am sure they have been informing the group of proceedings - it seems you havent been informed.
The students have received their deposit back.
We find it most strange that we have not heard from you in these 7 weeks until you again choose to deride us on social media? It would have been more beneficial to us all if your son had contacted us directly at the office if he had these issues rather than you make these incorrect accusations through lack of you having false knowledge of the facts
Once again, please understand my asking you to not insult us by stating our reviews 'seem unreal' , we are a proud family owned business and as stated previously, every review is genuine, we do not 'subscribe' to asking friends & family to leave us reviews.
We wish your son all the best in his future, and we are sorry you felt the need to leave this review, it would have been nice if we could have met and then you would know what type of ethical, caring people we are here at Belvoir.
Despite this we understand you being protective over your son but your facts are sadly wrong.
Kindest Regards
The Belvoir Team.