Reeds Rains Durham City reviews

★★★★★ 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

★★★★★ 5/5

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1st class estate agents

Jess called valued our property and it was sold in less than 4 weeks.Excellent, professional and friendly service from every member of the team. When we have needed help and advice they have always been there for us.

MAXINE · 28 July 2022

★★★★★ 1/5

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Terrible letting agent always chasing…

Terrible letting agent always chasing them and never doing jobs which they were asked to arrange. Gave me bad advise and put terrible tenants in resulting in wreaking my property. I would not monitor the tenant for.me. I'd not recommend this company at all.

Hunter · 17 September 2021

★★★★★ 5/5

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Great service and so helpful.

Thankyou so much Alison,Donna and the Reeds Rains team at my local branch for a 1st class job selling my home.A buyer was found within 2 days and the purchase price was much more than i had expected.Nothing was too much trouble for them,always saying "if you need anything or want help filling out forms just get in touch" definately 5 stars from me.Thanks again for a brilliant job done.

David · 27 July 2022

★★★★★ 5/5

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All concerned were helpful and…

All concerned were helpful and thoughtful.

Margaret · 4 October 2024

★★★★★ 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

★★★★★ 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

★★★★★ 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

★★★★★ 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

★★★★★ 1/5

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Landlords Stay Away

Landlords stay away from this company. They have literally ruined a furnished flat I allowed them to manage. The flat was fully furnished and as each tenant left, the furniture left with them either damaged or left outside in the rain. No checking of the property, rent is always late, but very quick to pocket fees. Communication is non existent unless they want money. It’s an ongoing joke in my family when you call Reed Rains and they say they are going to call you back.

Francis · 21 October 2020

★★★★★ 5/5

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Professional and efficient

My property has just been sold by Reeds Rains Haxby York within 1 week having previously been on the market with another agent for 6 months.They have handled my sale professionally from start to finish and gave us sound advice on how to market our property to achieve a quick sale.

A · 16 October 2019

★★★★★ 1/5

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Please will someone call me back re 2…

Please will someone call me back re 2 Marbury court northwich

Caroline · 9 July 2024

★★★★★ 1/5

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worse letting agent possible for landlord

worse letting agent possible for a landlord. Same thing keep passing on to different person from property management and the next person does not know what is happening and keeps repeating the same thing.

Unhappy · 21 December 2022

★★★★★ 5/5

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Professional, friendly & welcoming viewing host

Alan was very friendly and welcoming at a viewing of a rental property in Appley Bridge earlier today.Professional and knowledgeable, he portrayed both himself and Reeds Rains in a good light

JayCee · 12 January 2021

★★★★★ 2/5

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Leasehold brushed under carpet

Agreed a sale on a property that was leasehold. When I asked for details about the lease prior to sale I was told that solicitors deal with this but its about £100 a year. Fast forward 2 months into the sale and it turns out annual lease is so high my mortgage would be refused. When I told this to the estate agent and that we were pulling out of the sale I was met with a rude and abrupt response. I know they lost a sale, but if they were more transparent from the get go it wouldn't have happened (nor would it have cost me £800 in solicitor and servery fees). When we started to search for another house I avoided any Reeds Rains properties and I will never use their services again.

Sam · 1 October 2020

★★★★★ 5/5

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Reeds Rains Rhyl

Excellent estate agents, couldn’t do enough for me as a buyer. Very smooth, easy to contact and kept me updated along with my solicitor. Derry couldn’t do enough to ensure a smooth easy transaction. Highly recommended 😊

Katie · 20 August 2022

★★★★★ 2/5

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Friendly staff but no reply

We viewed a property through Reeds Rains recently, and the lady present at the viewing was very friendly!However, we never got a reply about the landlord's decision. It is just disappointing because we had to travel a long distance to see the property.Portishead branch.

Caio · 11 August 2021

★★★★★ 5/5

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Reeds Rains Gosforth

Reeds Rains Gosforth - Brilliant staff and communication throughout with regular updates followed with e-mails. Highly recommended and chose these as they were the only Estste Agent in the area where an actual person answered the phone instead of having to leave a voicemail.

Amanda · 14 June 2024

★★★★★ 5/5

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I put my parents house on the market…

I put my parents house on the market with Reeds Rains in January and after 2 weeks the second couple to view the house put an offer in. I can’t thank all the staff enough but most of all Nina at Reed Rains for all they did to make sure the sale went through smoothly, especially as we had the Coronavirus pandemic which held up the completion of the sale. I would recommend Reeds Rains to anyone who is looking to sell their house in the future because of their professionalism and knowledge in pricing houses. All in all, a fantastic service from all involved.

Paul · 27 August 2020

★★★★★ 5/5

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Excellent customer service

Excellent customer service, very impressed. I contacted the Chester branch and dealt with Nikki Pike who I found to be very knowledgeable and helpful indeed. Nothing was too much trouble. Thank you!

Lisa · 18 August 2020

★★★★★ 5/5

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Outstanding professional quality service Reeds Rains Carrickfergus

I have used the letting services of Reeds Rains Carrickfergus for a decade, the whole team are so professional & very friendly, it’s a real pleasure to deal with any of the staff, and a real stand out is Lisa who has been so helpful & supportive over the years, her care & attention to both the landlord & tenant has been amazing. Thank you so much it’s a real pleasure dealing with such a professional, caring company.

Margaret · 11 February 2021

★★★★★ 1/5

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Total bad experience with reeds rains

Total bad experience with reeds rainsgot the house but when I went to clean the house prior to the move we found alot of damp on various walls around the house around plug sockets which was dangerous.this was going to be my first home with my little boy this was not livable conditions and they was going to make me stay therethey came to a decision with the landlord to let me out of the contract due to alot of work needing doing only if I let them keep first month rent, bare in mind this house would not be livable, and if the work was to get done I couldn't live there and still had to pay.I just find my first experience with them weren't the best.

Kirsty · 30 July 2020

★★★★★ 1/5

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Unprofessional and unethical

Unprofessional and unethical. It didn't say offers around, it said asking price. Was told asking price had been offered, how much more were we prepared to pay? Since when did it turn into an auction!?? State offers around if u want to alter the price.

Dawn · 28 April 2021

★★★★★ 4/5

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A landlord's viewpoint

We have been landlords of just one property which was fully-managed by Reeds for the last 2 1/2 years. We can genuinely say that their service 2017 in finding a tenant, checking them out, & viewings was very good. Our single criticism of their service at the beginning was that messages which were left sometimes failed to be passed around the office as quickly as we hoped. This has improved over the time and there isn't a problem now. But their services are more costly than their competitor's rates. The online portal is good in principle, but only just ok in practice, because it isn't always up-to-date, things which have been resolved aren't always closed/removed quickly, and the accounts side is fairly nondescript. We have recently changed tenants with the invaluable help of a new-to-us lettings manager, ie Sonia. (who we didn't know had replaced Rob). Maybe an announcement was made, but we didn't see it. We have found that their check-out fee for the previous tenant, and their set-up fees for finding & checking a new tenant, and for the Inventory, have all increased significantly in 2 1/2 years. Having criticised Reeds for that, the team in the office have been excellent throughout the lengthy change of tenant process. Sonia has always been positive and pro-active, and open to our ideas - some of which she has tactfully advised against! We feel we have been well-advised throughout and Summer, Brooke, Rachel have always been there to help, even if it meant passing a message on - the difference from before is that now we are more confident that it will actually be passed on. Full marks too for everyone for answering our incoming phone calls promptly! - no 'you are in a queue because all our operators are busy', or switching to insane music, and such annoyances. I give 9/10 to the staff, 6/10 to prices, and just 5/10 to the portal. Main suggestion: is there a better way of communicating staff changes so we know who is doing what? And a big up to everyone from us. Sam & Barbara

Sam · 29 July 2020