C Baratti
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We've visited a property to let with John D Wood. We liked the property, and sent an offer. Offer accepted. So we paid the holding deposit.
We went through the referencing, very long and time consuming. It took 15 days to have a feedback. And the feedback was : we can't reference you because your tax returns were from France, not from the UK.
The letting agent offered us to pay all the rents (18 months) upfront, to skip the reference. We obviously refused.
And we started panicking, because our move out date from our current property was approaching... We quickly visited other properties. We found a house to let through another letting agency. The referencing took literally 2 days, and we had no issues (they accepted tax returns from France). Luckily, we have been able to find house to let in time.
John D Wood came back to us, in the meanwhile, saying that the landlord had finally accepted to rent us his property, even if our tax returns were from France.
But it was too late. We had already found another house.
But John D Wood is refusing to reimburse our holding deposit, because they say that it's our decision not to let this house and that our offer was accepted by the landlord.
So we now have to enter into a legal fight.
I would highly recommend NOT to work with John D Wood.... Read more
1st Mar 2024 (8 weeks ago)