Acorn Estate Agents
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Avoid at all costs
Avoid at all costs Used Acorn in order to rent my property near London Bridge for a year. The entire experience with them was a farce from start to finish After six months Acorn emailed me asking me for £250 to repair some of the lights in the property telling me that it was a ’legal requirement’ as the lighting was ‘unsatisfactory’. My lighting has been checked only 6 months before when the property has been prepared for rental. When I checked with an independent electrician they informed me there was nothing wrong with the property’s lighting and there was no legal requirement to fix the lighting- an additional income stream for Acorn? -£600 was mysteriously deducted from one of my monthly invoices. I repeatedly queried where this amount went. I was told it had bounced back due because I had altered my account details. I was repeatedly assured that this money would be paid to me at the new account details. I sent repeated chaser emails as to its whereabouts and told that it had been put towards a new washing machine. This was never evidenced in the invoicing. This amount has still not been paid to me despite repeated emails Acorn lost the property's window and post box keys, blaming the loss on the tenants. I contacted the tenants directly and they said they had returned them to Acorn. Neither set of keys have never been returned to me and I have had to pay for new sets to be cut. Acorn are unconcerned and have not refunded me for losing the keys. Back office blames front office and vice versa. Acorn told me that I needed to purchase a new mattress for an incoming tenant. When I pushed back on this they told me I would lose the tenant. I reluctantly agreed and purchased a mattress- the tenant moved out after 5 months and Acorn told me to remove a brand new mattress [at a hefty removal cost] for the next set of tenants. Such a waste. Acorn failed to forward me information about a council tax payment until it was seriously overdue and the council threatened to close my account. The first time Acorn made me aware that there was an outstanding Council Tax payment was when I was emailed a final notice- which means they had received several statements prior to this date and had not contacted me. Acorn then had the audacity to email me telling me to deal with the situation [i.e. make the payment] immediately because they were repeatedly receiving correspondence from the council because the bill was so seriously in arrears. Up to this point I had idea that a bill was even due to be paid as I had never been informed! This company is a HORROR SHOW. Save yourself the hassle and unpleasantness and use any other lettings agency but them.