The Property Shop Brighton

Well well, welcome back friends and family to another warm fuzzy edition of publicisizing corporate criminals. This time round, The Property Shop, in Brighton.

I rented a flat some time ago in Brighton, it wasnt a particularly nice flat, and it was a great deal of money each month, but I needed it, so I paid the money. The estate agents, as you may have already guessed, were the property shop in brighton. Lisa Simmonds is the queen bee in the property shop, or at least she seems to think she is as she has her husband steve completely by the balls, not allowing him so much as sole access to his own email account, which she instead chooses to blunder through on a daily basis. Now, upon visiting the property shop, Lisa was terribly charming, like a good old fashioned car salesman being sleezy during his pitch.

The second the contracts were signed however, little Mrs Simmonds transformed it the kaniving little prat that she actually is under the sweet-sickly-sales-exterior.

Upon moving into said flat, all the problems with it which we were promised would be fixed… were still there. Broken floorboards, leaking sink, smashed bathroom tiles, broken boiler, leaking windows, leaking skylight were all still there, and to this day (a number of years later) are still there!

But for some reason when I went to get MY security deposit back, I was charged for ‘cleaning’ even though I left the flat in a far cleaner state than it had most likely seen in the last decade, ‘removal of furniture’ even though said furniture belonged to the PREVIOUS tenants which I had requested to be removed on numerous occasions, and ‘late rent payments’ which as per contract, have to be collected AT THE TIME, and which I was never informed of. Some nice corporate hospitality there!

Not to mention the fact that they took almost 2 months after I had vacated the property to return my deposit, and Lisa actually hung up on my over 5 times when I called up to have it returned.

NEVER go anywhere near these absolute criminals. The only reason they get away with it is because they are the ONLY estate agent in Brighton that is not regulated by a larger governing body. Go somewhere that is, or you WILL lose money the same way I did.