... Although the guy from Countrywide (Taylors, Dixons, Spencers estate agents) was on a commission to sell me a mortgage, his advise was very fair and impartial. We talked through a bundle of options and came up with one that suited my needs (100% mortgage and a one year transfer for free get ... Read review
Advantages: Choose a good one (like I did) and you'll be laughing Disadvantages: Slowly slowly catchy monkey
...advisor. Although the guy from Countrywide (Taylors, Dixons, Spencers estate agents) was on a commission to sell me a mortgage, his advise was very fair and impartial. We talked through a bundle of options and came up with one that suited my needs (100% mortgage and a one year transfer for free get out clause).
2 days after starting to look round (10 June 2000) I found a house I really liked anmd put in an offer that was accepted on the Monday. ...the end of July.
My tips for first time buyers:
1) Shop around for a solicitor. I am using conveyancing live who although they cost a bit more than the cheaper ones give you access to a web site where you can check the progress of your move (55live.com). They also don't charge you until you complete.
2) Don't immediately take the life assurance and buidlings insurance you are offered. I've saved £35 a month by shopping around. more
2 months ago I started looking around to rent a house in Leicester to get me out of my parents. After looking at 16 houses and flats all of which were not suitable for rats to live in I thought stuff this I'll have a think about buying somewhere. First and best step I took was to go and see an independent mortgage advisor. Although the guy from Countrywide (Taylors, Dixons, Spencers estate agents) was on a commission to sell me a mortgage, his advise was very fair and impartial. We talked through a bundle of options and came up with one that suited my needs (100% mortgage and a one year transfer for free get out clause). 2 days after starting to look round (10 June 2000) I found a house I really liked anmd put in an offer that was accepted on the Monday. Surveys done, mortage accepted and due to move at the end of July. My tips for first time buyers: 1) Shop around for a solicitor. I am using conveyancing live who although they cost a bit more than the cheaper ones give you access to a web site where you can check the progress of your move (55live.com). They also don't charge you until you complete. 2) Don't immediately take the life assurance and buidlings insurance you are offered. I've saved £35 a month by shopping around. 3) Don't leave the solicitors to get on with it. Even though you are likely to be paying them £500 for sending a few letters even this can take them a long time so chase them up regularly. 4) Unless you are buying a house built since 1945 don't automatically pay extra for any landfill or mine surveys to be done on the property. The solicitor will take your money for this but will also tell you if you ask whether you need it or not. 5) Have a great big house warming and invite me.
Advantages: None at all! Disadvantages: stress, stress, stress and more stress
...reply to a threat from Countrywide to take legal action against me for complaining!
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Dear Mr XXXXXXX
I have waited patiently to see if any legal action would be taken against me for my so called unreasonable comments. But as yet I have not received any notification. I am still prepared to maintain my complaints should you wish to pursue this action as I feel I am ... ...result of my email to Countrywide where I advised that I would report Taylors Countrywide to the OEA and other organisations. You replied again to the same complaint letter dated 15 June where I requested a Final response. This time you have replied in a different manner and admitted the failures of your company on two of my complaints. You replied on the other issues with unsatisfactory excuses and statements and I will detail these below.
1. Knowingly ...
Redhead 08.09.2005
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Advantages: good service Disadvantages: pushy and expensive
Through their high street agent Mann and Co, this company has provided various property and valuation for over 100 of years. The downside of this estate agent is that they tend to price the price of the property up and plays the number games with the buyer. Also, they can be rather agressive at time and push the buyer hard to put in a higher price. Therefore, fisrt time buyer with little experience may end up paying more than they should.
Due to ...
friends 05.09.2000
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Advantages: Erm... they didn't smell too bad Disadvantages: Takes advantage of the first time buyer! never calls - see below for rest of story...
*All real names have been forgotten...
A couple of years ago, my girlfriend and I decided to buy our own place. We looked around, and shortly found a nice little flat. It was being sold by MANN estate agents.
The first peron we spoke to was an agent - lets call her "Helen", who was very nice, smiley and sympathetic to our situation (not big earners trying to buy our first property). She showed us the flat and we fell in love with it, but hadn't ... ...their in-house financial advisor to help us get a mortgage and go through our personal finances - Lets call him "Lee" - This is where the trouble started... Lee found us a mortgage and agreed it, and then it "fell through" and the mortgage lenders wouldn't lend us the money. To happen once was a blow to us, but then it happened again, and again and again. With a different lender and a different excuse every time. In the end, we had only one option, ...
kung-fu-jams 15.01.2004
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Advantages: THERE ARE NONE Disadvantages: POOR SERVICE HIGH PRICES
Mann Countrywide offer a poor over-priced service to vendors
they never return phone calls - do not give feedback from viewers or update you on what they are doing to sell your home! all in all they are lazy and seem to do as little as possible to sell your property!
Having had a bad experience with them some 16 years ago like a fool I instructed them to sell our home back in july 07. they dropped our asking price by £40,000 and put us on the market ... ...message steer clear of Mann Countrywide - would love to name the branch. - hampshire
Well just wanted to post an update: we finally sold our house through Mann Countrywide... and we were told that if we were offered compensation and accepted, if we complained to the ombudsman the compensation offered via Mann would not be payable... well after hours of writing reports on what happen, I sent everything off.... and ended up with getting £1500 off ...
snapdogs 07.11.2007 (22.10.2008)
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Advantages: Wide range of homes in every price range and area. Disadvantages: They don't really give the homes a good inspection before sale/rental.
We decided to rent a home when I relocated here from the USA. So we looked with different agents and at many homes. We finally found one that was both a decent location and a decent home...so we thought. Robinson's Estate Agents handled our application which seemed to take ages to process...and we had to call and bug them on a regular basis, because they never kept us up to date on things. Finally, we were able to move in and we discovered...that ... ...she wanted them back. That was a bit of a scene because apparently she had been thrown out...YIKES...talk about uncomfortable. We discovered only after we had moved in that the electric and gas had been put on prepay meters!!!!! Something I would expect Robinson's to mention to us....We had no gas or electric and we moved in on a Friday evening!!! They basically left it up to us to get that all sorted and meters changed...GREAT eh? It gets better...we ...
suzymckeen 11.08.2001
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