Reeds Rains CEMB estate agents in Clevedon and Portishead

★★★★★ 5/5

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Brilliant professional service…

Brilliant professional service throughout and refreshing communication for an Estate Agent, lovely people too which always helps.

Mrs · 27 November 2020 · Reeds Rains CEMB Clevedon (5 The Triangle)

★★★★★ 1/5

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Rude, pushy & unprofessional

It’s difficult to know where to start as almost each interaction with the Chester branch was disappointing and stressful. My partner and I bought our first home through Reeds Rains and both vowed never to use them again. The branch manager Nina is either super friendly or extremely abrupt, before you can explain why you are calling she barks “what can I do for you”. Customer service training certainly wouldn’t go amiss. We had a survey carried out and it was recommended that we carry out further investigations to determine whether there was asbestos in the artex ceilings. Nina dismissed the surveyor’s comments, saying she’d never heard anything like it and suggested we find a new surveyor!We paid for a separate asbestos survey and hey presto, they found asbestos in the artex ceilings and in the garage. Nina told us that as we’d only tested 2 rooms, there was no evidence that there was asbestos in all the ceilings (even though each ceiling has identical artex design). We later discovered that after slating our surveyor, Nina is now passing him a lot of work.We put our offer in on the house in January and naturally due to lockdown, nothing happened for several months. The house needed so much work that we had to arrange for tradespeople to enter the property in order to assess the work required and provide a quote.We managed to secure a local builder who agreed to visit the house. He was given assurance by Reeds Rains that they would be at the office at 9am the following day to hand over the keys. The next day at 9.15am, the builder rang me to say he arrived at Reeds Rains office but it was closed. The builder said he was too busy to rearrange so I had to find another builder. That wasn’t easy as every man and his dog were renovating their houses during lockdown. After complete radio silence for months (& no apology for leaving our builder stranded), when we were trying to arrange an exchange date (which happened to be the beginning of August), we were inundated with telephone calls. I had one very unpleasant call just before I attended a funeral, demanding to know why we had put the date back one week. I was told that “the sellers wouldn’t be happy”. The rudeness and aggressive manner of the agent was quite shocking to say the least.Our solicitor also told me that they’d been phoning him constantly and were rude and demanding. We both came to the conclusion that Reeds Rains wanted the sale to go through in order for them to meet their month end targets.Our experience should have been exciting and happy, but it was stressful and at times, rather upsetting. Sadly I would not recommend this estate agent (my review concerns Chester branch, other branches may have friendlier staff who don’t harass people).

Joanne · 25 November 2020 · Reeds Rains CEMB Clevedon (5 The Triangle)

★★★★★ 5/5

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Reeds Rains Brockley office

Reeds Rains Brockley office We received an amazing friendly service since beginning of our home hunting journey, Gentrit, Rachel and our property manager Lauren, they are great team, even the service still continue the same system after we moved in, whenever we need anything or any question in mind Lauren on the phone.I would highly recommend👏👏👏

Hilal · 25 November 2020 · Reeds Rains CEMB Clevedon (5 The Triangle)

★★★★★ 1/5

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Terrible for Welsh landlords: having a dog and barking yourself

I would have given zero if possible. No-one in the Chester office is Rent Smart Wales trained, or indeed works in lettings now. The maintenance team took 9 months to arrange a pre-paid alarm check; they barely managed two check visits a year pre-COVID and there's been just one this year; all safety checks are late and their default position is, 'we can't use your contractor, shall we send in ours (at 2-3 times the cost)?' yet my contract lists my nominated contractors! I'm paying management fees each month, but I'm the one diarising checks, contacting contractors, and chasing the agent: every single week I'm dragged in for something. I did the Rent Smart Wales training and know that the advice I'm given is almost always wrong for Wales. Now my tenant has done work that's made my property unsafe, and they're pushing all the remedial work and costs onto me! Terrible, terrible, terrible - agree you should find a good local agent who cares about their tenants and landlords. I will never, ever use Reeds Rains again.

Welsh · 24 November 2020 · Reeds Rains CEMB Clevedon (5 The Triangle)

★★★★★ 5/5

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Eccleshall Branch is a bit…

Eccleshall Branch is a bit special.Superb service from the positive ,pulchritudinous and pragmatic Nicola.Several viewings and sold in less than a week for virtually the full asking price.Best thing though was the communication.Can't fault them .No hesitation in recommending them.

GEOFF · 21 November 2020 · Reeds Rains CEMB Clevedon (5 The Triangle)

★★★★★ 5/5

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Smooth and easy process - very professional

We have just bought and then rented out a house through Reeds Rains in Acomb.The process with them has been smooth and problem free, despite what’s been going on with Covid and also us living overseas. Jordan and Alex have been super helpful and professional, can’t fault them at all.Thank you for all your hard work guys!

Adele · 20 November 2020 · Reeds Rains CEMB Clevedon (5 The Triangle)

★★★★★ 1/5

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Dont bother youll get more use out of…

Dont bother youll get more use out of concrete each person in the company doesnt have a clue what the other person is doing please avoid i beg you they do harass you ive had first hand experience

Dorris · 19 November 2020 · Reeds Rains CEMB Clevedon (5 The Triangle)

★★★★★ 1/5

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Informing neighbour's we are selling without our permission

What right do you have telling everyone in our street we have sold our house. We wanted it kept quiet. I am checking to see if I can sue for breach of personal information

Jean · 16 November 2020 · Reeds Rains CEMB Clevedon (5 The Triangle)

★★★★★ 1/5

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If you’re a tenant threaten them with…

If you’re a tenant threaten them with legal action!! That’s the only thing that seems to work. I’ve been to the solicitor once already this year for maintenance that I’d been chasing for 10 months, it was done in a week. They were avoiding me so much that it was the only option. Even today, I’ve been waiting months to get my guttering changed because it’s causing my window to flood through, they’ve ignored me, spoken to me like I’m worthless, it’s disgusting!!! YOU SIGNED A TENANTS AGREEMENT!!!!!! Get a grip! I’ve got an appointment with the same solicitor next week, hopefully get their months notice in straight after, and then get a judge to deal with them, then I’m moving the hell out!!

Phil · 12 November 2020 · Reeds Rains CEMB Clevedon (5 The Triangle)

★★★★★ 1/5

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They are liars and time wasters I put…

They are liars and time wasters I put my offer in asked if the property was freehold they assured me it was and it was leasehold and lead me along for 3 month dont believe them they wasted my money and time so make things easy look find trustworthy estate agents the branch I delt with was birmingham yadley branch crap service and misleading agents

Shide · 12 November 2020 · Reeds Rains CEMB Clevedon (5 The Triangle)

★★★★★ 1/5

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Warning this pack of thieves is still…

Warning this pack of thieves is still taking tenancy renewal fees off of tenants which is illegal.This fee was abolished on 31st May 2020 but they are doing it still as I write this.Cant wait to inform Trading standards and local council.This review concerns the branch in Dinnington South Yorkshire.Postal code s25.

Barry · 11 November 2020 · Reeds Rains CEMB Clevedon (5 The Triangle)

★★★★★ 1/5

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Avoid Reeds Rains as landlord or tenant.

I agree with most of the reviews for Reeds Rains. Dreadful and avoid. I chose them to "fully manage" my flat in Hanley. They found completely unsuitable tenants twice and then failed to "manage" the situation leaving me to take it on. Their business is totally fragmented. Tenants are found by the local "branch". Then they are passed to Southampton and somewhere else for rent collection and credit control. They do not communicate between themselves and I got conflicting emails from two places. They treat the tenant as a commodity, and appear to do as little as possible when a problem arises.

Richard · 31 October 2020 · Reeds Rains CEMB Clevedon (5 The Triangle)

★★★★★ 1/5

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Never rent from ReedsRains!

Never rent from ReedsRains!Their fragmented departments make it impossible at times to get any fluidity to responses. Constantly late in terms of dealing with return of payments, they often mis-calculating amounts and show a complete lack of empathy with any issues raised. Their Hub is particularly bad at customer service and I feel they are only out to get as much money out of you as possible. They prefer you to over pay then claim reimbursement, however getting the money back is an absolute nightmare. At branch level they complete dismiss responsibility and tell you to contact the faceless Hub if you have issues. Both these elements of the business do not seem to be well coordinated at all. Maintenance issues are not dealt with promptly.They often shun responsibility and you end up chasing your tail trying to get an answer. Horrible company with terrible morals!I would honestly never take a house rented by them under any circumstance again.

Dr · 30 October 2020 · Reeds Rains CEMB Clevedon (5 The Triangle)

★★★★★ 5/5

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Liam was helpful , polite, straightforward , professional yet friendly & caring

I spoke to an employee named liam who was extremley helpful well spoken and polite when helping me find some properties to view for me and my partner who are desperate to find somewhere to live, he took all of our needs and request into consideration when searching for properties to make sure that he could find the best properties for us and very quickly emailed over a property to us

Issi · 29 October 2020 · Reeds Rains CEMB Clevedon (5 The Triangle)

★★★★★ 1/5

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Dreadful, service for landlord and tenant

I chose Reeds Rains to manage my rental property in Macclesfield to reduce the time it was taking to manage it myself. It was the worst decision I could have made. Their 'award winning' out-sourced service meant I never spoke to the same person twice. The customer facing team based hundreds of miles way in Southampton had no idea about the local area and no relationships in place with the maintenance people on the ground or the tenants. One piece of maintenance work took over 6months to resolve. The service was poor from start to finish. My advice would be to find a local independent who actually cares about their landlords and tenants. Avoid Reeds Rains at all costs. Dreadful!!

Lara · 27 October 2020 · Reeds Rains CEMB Clevedon (5 The Triangle)

★★★★★ 1/5

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A horrible organisation.

A horrible organisation that is so disjointed it’s a joke. Very rude and their main aim seems to be ‘how can we get more money out of people by doing no work’. People at the branch are okay but the people in the many different disjointed departments speak to you in such an awful way. And if you try and query a charge their go to statement is ‘it’s just the system’ with no explanation behind it. Or if you try and get something fixed in your rented house they’ll just ignore it. I wouldn’t touch this company with a barge pole again.

Linda · 27 October 2020 · Reeds Rains CEMB Clevedon (5 The Triangle)

★★★★★ 1/5

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I will not recommend Reeds Rains Wakefield…

I instructed Reeds Rains Wakefield branch to sell my property. There was loads of errors, misinformation, letter not sent on time. They recommended to me bad solicitor who have no ideas of latest legislations. It took over 7 months to exchange contract. Poor communication, it seems they don't know what they are doing in their office. It as completely waste of time. Very stressful dealing with this company. I will not recommend anyone.

Lucky · 27 October 2020 · Reeds Rains CEMB Clevedon (5 The Triangle)

★★★★★ 1/5

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Giving this company 1 star is only due…

Giving this company 1 star is only due to not being able to give 0. Absolutely disgusting rip off company. My son and his partner needed to give early termination of a tenancy due to the property being unsuitable due to change in circumstances. The landlord refused unless they paid reeds rains £720 which were apparently their fees for getting a new tenant. They did not take new photos, they basically just shoved it on their website again and have refused or made excuses in giving a breakdown of what these ludicrous fees are for. Luckily a new tenant was found straight away but God help them cause the landlord refuses to put anything right and reeds rains fob you off saying its not their responsibility & the new tenants couldn't even see inside the property due to Reed rains messing up with the keys. Even to the end they sent a threatening email that if the money wasn't paid by the end of the 4th day after they provided the bank details they would put a stop on the contract termination. Will be continuing to fight these fees & taking up the matter with the property ombudsman as tried their own complaint procedure and got as far as the area manager who was just as useless as the manager at the branch at giving pathetic excuses for these fees.

Diane · 27 October 2020 · Reeds Rains CEMB Clevedon (5 The Triangle)

★★★★★ 5/5

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Martin · 26 October 2020 · Reeds Rains CEMB Clevedon (5 The Triangle)

★★★★★ 5/5

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Jane · 26 October 2020 · Reeds Rains CEMB Clevedon (5 The Triangle)

★★★★★ 5/5

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Amy · 26 October 2020 · Reeds Rains CEMB Clevedon (5 The Triangle)

★★★★★ 5/5

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Rex · 26 October 2020 · Reeds Rains CEMB Clevedon (5 The Triangle)

★★★★★ 5/5

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Marie · 26 October 2020 · Reeds Rains CEMB Clevedon (5 The Triangle)

★★★★★ 5/5

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Lisa · 26 October 2020 · Reeds Rains CEMB Clevedon (5 The Triangle)