Reeds Rains Durham City reviews

★★★★★ 1/5

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If your a landlord stay away

Firstly please do not use Reeds and Rains!. I am a landlord. Every month my rent is not in my account until at least 10 days after the payment date by the tenant on the first of each month. Why? so RR can gain interest. Last month monies for a deposit scheme where taken x 3 amounts all at once? Why? who knows I have contacted three different people. No response. I have left a message via the landlord portal. No response. Also i pay a management fee for property inspection reports. How many have I had in the last year? yep zero. I am going to visit the branch tomorrow. Please do not be taken in by this company. And I am guessing i will receive no response from this. Shocking parasitesALSO YOU HAVE TO CONTACT ACCOUNTS DEPARTMENT YOURSELF! See below Thank you for your email received on 7 August 2019. I will log this as an official complaint for you. May I suggest for you to contact the accounts team who will be the ones who can explain anything to do with payments going in and out of your account. Their number is 01257 230 600 option 3 Yours sincerelyInna PetkovaCustomer relations supervisorSO AS A CUSTOMER WHO PAYS A MANAGMENT FEE YOU DO THE WORK FOLKS!! GOOD LUCK!! shocking

Gary · 7 August 2019

★★★★★ 1/5

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LANDLORDS AVOID!!!

Where do I start? My brother and I had a property managed by Reeds Rains for about 4-5 years. At first everything seemed to be fine, all queries dealt with and good tenants found for us. The fee was steep but we were happy it was being managed. Then bit by bit the issues started. I can't list everything here but basically the house was put into trust, and then my Mum passed away in 2017. Straight away we supplied a copy of the Death Certificate to Reeds Rains. Unfortunately there was mis-communication between departments and we ended up having to supply a copy of the certificate a couple more times as they kept writing to her, which as you can imagine was distressing. Then the house was taken out of Trust, and we supplied them with the relevant document. They never told us they needed anything further until about a year later, and up until leaving them all correspondence was addressed to 'Mr Trust' even though those documents were also supplied more than once. Then we kept getting payments given to us in small amounts with no idea what they were as their portal hadn't been updated for a year, unfortunately the staff didn't know what the small amounts were either and we had to chase everything several times to get an answer. I then began the process of purchasing the house solely, and even though we both told RR we wanted all correspondence to come to myself and gave a different bank account, with myself chasing this up several times with Hillsborough office to make sure it had been done as this was extremely important, guess what the payment was sent to the old bank account. The excuse was that 'head office wanted to talk to us before any action was taken'. So at this point we put in a complaint. I said I wanted to terminate my contract with RR without the extortionate fee that is usually charged to leave them. Again, we heard nothing. After chasing, the area manager decided that this was possible. I was told it had been passed to the next department to deal with the next step. The area manager didn't apologise, it was Hillsborough branch. Again, I heard nothing, so I had to contact them again and eventually got a reply. The tenants however had paid another months rent by this point, so i was told that this would be refunded to them. After a lot of chasing, this was refunded to the tenants ten days later, and not the full amount. When the tenants called them and asked why they hadn't received the full amount back, the reply was 'we don't know'. I had received an unexpected payment too, I rang to query this and was told 'it's probably some cash we held back that belongs to you'. i asked for this to be checked out but heard nothing back. Then came the job of trying to get the tenants deposit refunded. Again, no reply to emails so I ended up phoning. I was told it had been refunded but didn't get it in my bank account, when I phoned again I was told it had to go through accounts first and it was 'on the way'. As you can imagine, throughout all this my stress levels have been through the roof, as I didn't know when I was going to get the money to be able to pay my mortgage. Finally, I thought everything had been done, but no! Last week I got an invoice from RR addressed to 'Mr Trust' saying an outstanding balance of £84 will be deducted from my next receipts. So that's what the extra payment was!! You actually couldn't make it up and there is more, but I think I am going to run out of space soon! I think the issue is that there is total non-communication between departments, and no one seems to want to take responsibility of dealing with you and to make sure you are happy afterwards.

Helen · 22 July 2019

★★★★★ 1/5

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Bad management! Arrogant! Patronising! Liars!

Bad management! Poor customer service! After emailing interest and attempting to ring the office with interest in a property I finally got through to a girl who exudes a patronising telephone manner. She advised me there had been several enquires relating to the property and that they would do block bookings. After waiting for a few weeks and noticed that there was a sign outside the house saying let i was fuming! They had already picked and chose which people to ring back which I found wasn't very professional and they had not even telephoned me to let me know! What they should have done was ring everybody who shown interest and checked who were still interested instead of being sly! Unprofessional, don't listen to customer or wait until they have finished talking they butt in with their arrogant patronising lingo! Said they would take my details and when a similar property comes up in the area they will co tact me.... oh wait there is another house they are advertising but they are not interested in contacting prospective letters, so beware anybody who wants to use these people as they will take your money but they are not doing their best to get it off the market for you!

Sara · 21 July 2019

★★★★★ 5/5

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Many thanks to David and Elly!

Many thanks to David (Branch Manager) and Elly for all their help with purchasing our house. They were both extremely professional and helpful during the process and were always on hand when we needed them. Fully recommend their services to anyone and look forward to engaging with them again in the future.

Rich · 12 May 2022

★★★★★ 1/5

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Avoid avoid avoid

Awful! Been trying all day to arrange a viewing for a stunning home in Chesterfield. We loved the look of it of what we had seen on reeds rains website. I emailed and said I was interested, to no reply, I called and they eventually called back. They said theyd contact the vendor and get back to me. Unfortunately I missed the call and was asked to call back. Called 7 times with no answer. Needless to say the home we liked won’t be ours as we won’t be using reeds rains to view any properties. Awful customer service

Sam · 19 July 2019

★★★★★ 1/5

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Inadequate call centre, restrictive terms of business and inappropriate invoicing

I refer to LIN079L6. Our experience with Reeds Rains has not been pleasant.We signed a contract for “Let Only” but for two years we have been invoiced for “Rent Collect”.The Call Centre carried out an investigation into our contract. Fully 5 working days have passed and no communication as to the result. We can now only assume that our contract is Rent Only. Contact with their call centre is frustrating, their staff seem unable to respond to simple questions. Worse, they do not actively return calls. We wanted to confirm who held our tenants deposit. The call centre was unable to confirm but said they would call back. They didn’t, we did. Over a period of 4 weeks and at least 4 calls, no calls back and no confirmation, we spoke with a Team Leader who confirmed our enquiry in less than 5 minutes.Please read their terms of business before signing. There are clauses restrictive to a landlord. For example, clause 6.22 requires a landlord to pay 1 months rent plus VAT if the landlord wishes to terminate RR management/rent collection. I can understand RR doing this to prevent landlords abandoning a contract after a few months but after 2 years or more I consider this to be restrictive practice.

Stephen · 12 July 2019

★★★★★ 1/5

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Reeds Rains

Ok where do we begin. We moved into a managed property in May 2018. When we moved in the garden was over grown with weeds and bramble bushes, we couldn’t even open the back door without cutting down the excess. The oven had 2 inch of grease and grime from top to bottom, which was claimed to have been professionally cleaned before we entered the property. The wardrobe was all smashed and damaged at the back. The bathroom floor Lino had holes and gaps, the undividual pieces of lino came up when you walked on them. The back bedroom window had the biggest gap in the seal. Letting all the heat out in said bedroom. The emergency water tap was jammed even the gas engineer couldn’t budge it. The boiler broke 3 times. The landlords eventually arranged a new one to be installed, the boiler was wonky and left massive holes in the wall in the kitchen. The gas engineer also broke the smoke alarm cover (for some reason trying to pinch the battery). The cold tap in the bathroom never worked so we had to run the bath with the shower to add cold water. The plug socket next to my daughters bed was loose and didn’t work and was hanging off with live wires. The male landlord constantly rly appeared st the property and did not always allow peaceful enjoyment of the property, he also let himself in twice when the boiler man was here, I was upstairs cleaning and I heard him just walk in the house. TWICE. All of this I have proof of, which includes dates photographic proof and screen shots of conversations with the female landlord making comments on my mental health. We have a 6 year old little girl who nearly broke her leg down a huge hole in the pavement on the drive. Slates fell off the roof outside the front door.We had our check out on 05/06. It’s comical, they’ve tried to charge us for damages and cleans that weren’t caused by us. We even followed the rule, got the carpets and oven professionally clean, even though it wasn’t to that standard when we moved in. I now have had my old neighbour receive messages from either a member of reeds rains or the landlord hiding behind a fake profile on Facebook. Commenting on how we’re being dealt with by solicitors as we’ve made slanderous comments on Facebook. big fat LOL. Our comments are NOT slanderous because they are 100% true and we have the proof (unfortunately for them). How do we know it’s reeds rains or the landlords that made the profile? Well the information that was disclosed would only be known by either of these parties. After this I went only to read all the reviews on Reeds Rains, and I can see I am not the only one. Now due to the comments made by this individual on Facebook, were contacting ICS to investigate RR, and will go back and meet with our solicitor as this has got more serious. As our data privacy has been breached. All we wanted was our deposit back, and we would have let the past 12 months in that property behind us, but unfortunately they’re trying to charge us for damages we did not cause.

Meg · 24 June 2019

★★★★★ 1/5

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No show at prebooked appointments!

I arranged a viewing for today but the agent didn't show up at the appointment! When I called the office i didnt receive apology. Instead i was told she had left me a voicemail telling me the viewing was cancelled - reason ?. I don't know who's phone that message went to, (if the call was actually made), or if it is policy to cancel appointments without actually speaking to the customer but I'm not at all impressed. If i was a vendor trying to sell my property i wouldnt be happy about my potential buyer being left to stand in the rain.... V. Unprofessional. Update:This was the Consett branch.

Helen · 18 June 2019

★★★★★ 1/5

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Renters BEWARE OF USING REEDS RAINS

Renters, Avoid Reeds Rains at all costs.Our recent handing back of a spotless well maintained property in FY6 0BQ, was totally ruined by the landlord pulling the "retain deposit for cleaning" scam, with the local agents (Blackpool) lifting not a helpful finger to return our deposit within the statutory time scale! Now taken recourse to My Deposits dispute scheme. AVOID THIS AGENCY!!

Mr · 10 December 2024

★★★★★ 1/5

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Difficult from Start to Finish

The Manchester branch have made the experience of renting difficult for me from start to finish. Made promises on the viewing they weren't willing to keep (work that would be completed before moving in), moved in to a property without any smoke alarms (they had made me sign a document before collecting keys to say they were there), were unresponsive to a number of maintenance issues that needed completing (it took two months to get things fixed, including me having to go in for a meeting to get them to take action), and now they are finally fixed want to start coming to inspect the flat in case I've done any damage! (So much for quiet enjoyment of the property)I want to move someone into my spare room, and have been told that I need to re-referenced in case I can't afford the property any more (all for a fee of £60).Beware of anything you're told that you don't get in writing.

PW · 15 June 2019

★★★★★ 1/5

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One to avoid

We rented with Reeds Rains before buying a property (with another agent) late last year.The fees are phenomenal, although they do outline the initial fees (to draw up a contract, etc.), what they didn't tell us is that they charge this fee again, plus an additional fee each time you want to renew your tenancy agreement.At first it was all fine, but when we gave notice to leave the property, the branch manager (Chesterfield branch) made the experience very difficult and stressful. We were happy to accommodate viewings and only asked that they took place while we were at home. She still tried to book viewings when we were at work and told us on one occasion that since they had keys they would enter the property anyway after giving us 24hrs notice. Luckily this didn't happen as we did check our rights on this, but during the one viewing that took place, the person conducting it walked in and was surprised to see me as he had been told the property was vacant (which we understood wasn't his fault). Unfortunately the branch manager was always rude and very condescending with us, however the rest of the branch staff were polite whenever we spoke to them.Our landlord was great and very easy to deal with, and there were no problems in getting the full deposit back, even though Reeds Rains alluded to there being a possibility we wouldn't get it (although the property was left in better condition than when we moved in).

A · 5 June 2019

★★★★★ 4/5

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Would like to thank Donna and all the…

Would like to thank Donna and all the team at Reeds Rains branch in Bamber Bridge for the expertise and amazing advice in the sale of my property and also for the rent collection team for amazing assistance and would definitely recommend this team for there help anytime 😁😁😁😁.THANKS GUYS 👍👍👍👍👍

MR · 16 June 2022

★★★★★ 5/5

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I can highly recommend Reeds Rains…

I can highly recommend Reeds Rains Bamber Bridge branch. I was helped with the finding through to the completion of our purchase of the property by Alison who kept me fully informed every step of the way. We will definitely be seeking Alison’s help in the future to build our portfolio of properties. Thanks Alison

Catherine · 16 November 2021

★★★★★ 1/5

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Booked a viewing and agent did not even…

Booked a viewing and agent did not even turn up and i was not contacted and told, let into property by decorators to have a look so couldn't aak any questions about property or rent etc, renovation not funished loose sink, tiles completely missing and broken on floor, so had to ring office to see what was getting repaired and couldnt confirm if issues would be fixed! Very unprofessional service

Customer · 12 January 2022

★★★★★ 5/5

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The Cleckheaton branch have been…

The Cleckheaton branch have been amazing!!..especially Amy and molly and micheal, they have been great throughout the whole selling of the house, from valuation to the sale, always kept in contact from start to finish…couldn’t ask for a better estate agents! Thankyou all xx

Susan · 8 March 2023

★★★★★ 5/5

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Dawn in Reeds Rains Burnley sold our…

Dawn in Reeds Rains Burnley sold our property. There were a lot of up and downs in relation to the legal side, I am so glad we had Dawn on our side as without her I honestly don't think we would have got the sale through. Can't Thank you enough. Dunc Clevelands Road

Duncan · 26 February 2022

★★★★★ 5/5

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Great Estate Agents

The manager, James, and the staff at this branch of estate agents Reeds Rains were excellent. They dealt with the sale of my father in law's bungalow in Macclesfield very professionaly. Sue, in particular, was fantastic in keeping us fully informed throughout the sales process regularly chasing up the purchasers and both sets of solicitors to ensure that the sale was completed in a timely manner. I would not hesitate in using this firm in any future property sale

Chris · 3 October 2019

★★★★★ 5/5

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Selling my house with Reeds Rains

I picked Reeds Rains simply because I've always noticed their , 'For Sales', signs wherever I would go and I'm so glad I did because my first contact was with a lady named Grainne. I was very nervous but Grainne, immediately put me at ease over the phone and I was then able to explain to her, my needs, also Ethan, I have to say was just excellent and very professional in guiding me through everything. I can highly recommend this company to you for selling your house. Excellent, excellent!

Joyce · 17 January 2024

★★★★★ 5/5

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Excellent service

We mainly dealt with Jack Owen and from the very start of our sale we experience fantastic customer service. Calls to the office were always answered, enquiries always looked into and we were always updated.

Lily · 8 November 2023

★★★★★ 5/5

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Very impressed with Reeds Rains sales…

Very impressed with Reeds Rains sales team, a special thank you to Liam, Tracey and Lucy. I received excellent advice and support during the sale of my property and would definitely buy and sell again through Reeds Rains.

Customer · 23 August 2023

★★★★★ 5/5

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Lauren Review

I found Lauren to be a really great person to deal with . Lauren made me feel that I could trust her with my property and I got the impression that the property actually belonged to her and this made me safe in the knowledge that she really did care .

Gary · 28 May 2022

★★★★★ 1/5

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Avoid at all costs

Avoid at all costs, completely useless.

N · 10 September 2025

★★★★★ 5/5

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Good experience all round…

I have had a very good experience of buying this property wit Reeds Rains.Katie and her team have all been wonderful.

Clare · 14 August 2024

★★★★★ 5/5

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Excellent service

Reeds Rains Woodseats Sheffield have just sold my house, and I would definitely recommend them. They have expert knowledge of the local housing market, and helpful, efficient staff. In particular, Angela Reeves went the extra mile to keep my sale progressing, helpfully keeping me informed every step of the way. Thank you!

Consumer · 4 April 2022