Avoid At All Costs!
I would give zero stars if I could!
I have dealt with many estate agents but I can honestly say my experience as a landlord with Jordan & Halstead was by far the worst of my entire life.
The first two years were okay but then the person managing my property left, at the same time as I was getting new tenants, and from thereon in it was a nightmare. A property rental manager who would tell me she was very experienced, who was extremely difficult to contact, and acted as if the house belonged to her, not me!
When the house was let at the start of this tenancy it had been freshly decorated and all appliances were in full working order including the boiler and the garden was well tended to. What was returned to me was a house with visual evidence of damp in every room, holes drilled into walls, a broken hob, a central heating boiler that wasn't working and an unrecognisable garden. The garden aside, which you could not avoid seeing, nothing else had been reported to me. Even the said property manager herself said it was unrecognisable and looked like a completely different house to the one that had been let out!
As a rental property manager, I think it's reasonable to expect that person (especially when they have repeatedly told you they have years of experience) to understand how the Tenants Deposit Scheme (TDS) works, this person didn't. Due to the extent of the damage to my property, I asked to be involved in the submission process to the TDS I was told that wasn't possible, when I asked why I was told it's just the way it is, and I shouldn't get involved as it may affect my case, which wasn't correct, the property manager just wasn't aware of how the process works. Eventually I did contact the TDS and was advised what I had been told was complete nonsense, but by then it was too late for my claim. Consequently, I lost a lot of money because of her inability to submit the claim correctly and her lack of knowledge.
When I complained about the service I had received and the damage to my property Jordan & Halstead refused to accept any responsibility for what had happened.
My advice is to avoid at all costs. Personally I wouldn't trust them to put my bins out!
January 28, 2025
Unprompted review