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“NO ETHICS. AVOID THEM. ”

written by Abernathy404 on 23/01/2015

If you are still on time avoid them, if not be aware of their doggy practices behind your back and with other entities they operate.

I hired a flat from Savills and I started to have problems with them since the first day. During the reference stage, a credit check agency asked me for detailing all my accounts, incomes and investments in the UK and overseas during the last year. It was a very confidential and delicate information. The Savills' agency assistant called my partner and started to discuss my income and investments with him. I was shocked. How could she have my financial information with her!!! It is not legal to share this confidential information, not to say with a junior member of Savills' sales staff!!!! Since then, I knew that I was going to have a difficult relationship with them...

I checked the internet reviews and read, to my dismay, that reviews were awful. It was a new building and went we arrived the street intercom was not working. I called them and came a guy from the same country than the Savills agency assistant. He did some work on the building for half an hour and then he came and said "Oh, you know, it was working well!" It was strange as we rechecked it several times before informing Savills. The Savills assistant wrote to us saying we were going to be charged £80 for sending us the guy with no need. Savills did not say at the beginning the quote or even send us an invoice from this third party company. I refused to pay them, as it was not legal. After that I realized that more little things were not connected at home: telephone wires to plug, dishwasher,... Even a neighbor who moved a few months later to the building complained to me about the same problem!!! They were doing doggy business with their tenants to extra charge them...

Finally, when moving out, they wanted to charge us for the cleaning even when a professional cleaning was done and extra charge us three times the regular price for it. They maintained our deposit for more than 5 months, fooling us from department to department and even trying to not pay us back if we did not answer a message in 5 days sent on Christmas time.