Marsh & Parsons Estate Agents
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Dishonest and spivvy
Marsh & Parsons let a flat for me in 2016 and 'their' tenants terminated in December 2016 and left the UK; I re-let my flat through another agent and the tenancy started in February 2017. One of the Marsh & Parsons tenants contacted me from Sweden in February 2019 to ask as a favour for a copy of the signed electronic version of their former lease held as an office copy by Marsh & Parsons. I obtained it and forwarded it to the former tenant. Within two weeks I received a demand from the Marsh & Parsons credit controller Joshua Albright for fees of almost £8000 for the period from December 2016 to date based on 'evidence' he had that the tenants were still in my flat and were still paying the utility bills! This was complete rubbish and a try-on and I openly copied the correspondence with Marsh & Parsons to the subsequent letting agent as confirmation. My last email from Albright was to demand a copy of the subsequent 2017 lease as 'proof' which he also copied to the subsequent agent - an accusation of dishonesty copied to his competitor which amounts to defamation. I referred the matter to Marsh & Parsons CEO Patrick Littlemore and of course have not heard a peep from either of them since - perhaps they are in financial difficulties and are trying anything to shake out cash.... Definitely to be avoided and I trust they won't be around much longer.