NEVER NEVER NEVER go to them
For anyone looking to go to Cedar Estates, my only advise is to go literally anywhere else. I rented an apartment they let and managed from October 2019-May 2020. In fact, the Last time I wrote about them on google for harassing me, I got a stern call to remove the review which i did for fear of losing the apartment without any where to go but now that I am free of them, I can come clean about the nightmare they put me through.
When i got my apartment through them, the agency very conveniently forgot to mention that they do not have a meter in the apartment. What they had was a sub-meter programmed by the agency to some really high electricity rates - which had to be fed coins regularly. I only found this upon moving in and the agency refused to let me change. IN fact, they seem hand in glove with the landlord. Niamh at the agency was the absolute worst and patronising and would never budge on anything!
The nightmare began the day i moved in. I ended up paying almost 180 pounds in the first month when normal bills are not supposed to be more than 50-75 pounds a month. Upon creating a fuss, they sent an electrician to reprogram the meter to a slightly lower rate. Worst was their callous responses knowing I am a student, an immigrant with little knowledge of how these things work. When I demanded that they tell me who the supplying company is, they refused to tell me and kept ignoring me.
I finally found the supplier by calling the power authorties and begging for help. Upon checking their quotes for an apartment my size i found it was merely 40-50 pounds a month. clearly the agency was making money alongside the landlord i never saw.
As if this wasn't enough, they one day decided to break down my bathroom without my consent and without even providing me any options. when I called the agency for a temporary accommodation the manager very cruelly tells me to use a towel wipe to bathe for a week or GO TO MY GYM for a bath. Picture attached below, they wanted me to use the toilet in the condition below. To add to it, they would clean the alley way leading to the main door before showing the apartments in the building to new tenants but let garbage accummulate all other days. the nightmare kep going on - in fact, I had to once pay 90 pounds just because i forgot my keys inside and someone had to come open the door.
even when I wanted to vacate early due to the COVID crisis, being an unfunded student, not only were they completely inconsiderate but slammed a 174 pound cleaning bill for a largely clean flat (normally you can get professional cleaning for less than 40 pounds an hour).
COmplete exploitation of an unsuspecting tenant. I am just glad for the nightmare to be over. and i repeat - NEVER go to Cedar States! Foxtons and many other agencies in the area are far more helpful. better still go through Openrent to directly contract with the landlord
18 February 2021
Unprompted review