Acorn Estate Agents
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Avoid Avoid Avoid
We recently moved into a property managed by Acorn in East Dulwich, London - sold to us using images that were not truly representative of the condition of the house. We were incredibly excited to move into a clean, well maintained new property after searching for so long. We really felt like we’d found the perfect house to make a home in - this was NOT the case. Prior to move in it was stressed to Acorn that a professional, deep clean was imperative as one of us had recently been discharged from hospital having undergone life saving surgery on his lung. When we arrived, not only had the deep clean not happened, but we discovered numerous hazardous faults with the property. Acorn later admitted to us (Cailey) that nobody had actually inspected the property prior to our move-in. I believe the term used was ‘overlooked’. Hazards that we discovered: - There was a faulty light fitting in the hallway with exposed live wires that were tripping the electrics in the house - the temporary fix was a small piece of cardboard between the live wire and the metal light fitting. Luckily one of us is a qualified electrician and safely dealt with this. - The outdoor decking (that was beautiful in the pictures) was rotting and soft to tread on in places - extremely hazardous. - Broken glass and ceramic tiles scattered in the garden. - Thick layers of dirt and dust behind furniture in bedrooms. - Black mould in the kitchen. - Cracked tiles on the bathroom floor. - Broken burglar alarm on the exterior of the property that was hanging off. The member of our household who had just been released from hospital was advised by his surgeon to vacate the property due to the thick layers of dust discovered in his bedroom. After a long stressful slog of us chasing Acorn to resolve these issues they eventually sent a maintenance man who was lovely. He told told us the property was unsafe and he’d been telling them for years that work needs to be done. Not only were Acorn incredibly unhelpful despite us being clear that we wanted to work TOGETHER to resolve the issues we had, they tried to tell us that the issues we had were ‘cosmetic’. Collectively, our experience with Acorn has been extremely stressful and has had a huge negative impact on us over the past few months. After a total lack of urgency from Acorn to solve the issues we had, we were given no choice other than to vacate the property off our own accord. The stress of living there with no hope of our situation improving became too much. Acorn are now trying to take our deposit off us to pay for the months rent we refused to pay. If you are thinking of letting through Acorn PLEASE reconsider - it really isn’t worth the stress.