Trudypeel

I used to live on Athenlay road and we were broken into. It also happened on the same day as a number of others. The police said it was kids as they'd got their fingers underneath the window frame and yanked it open. Funny that it was half term last week so may have been kids again. They didn't catch the culprit. Horrible being burgled, my sympathies are with you and hope the police catch them.

I've just had K&O pest control round this morning and they were absolutely fantastic. We had just moved into a new house and the previous owners had paid Danny from Pest Protect however they did not turn up to finish the job and check everything was done despite the job being paid for. Despite claling Pest protect multiple times daily they havenot returned any of my calls in nearly 3 weeks so I gave up and call K&O. They were quick to attend, did as they said they would, super professional, really knowledgeable and when they came to inspect said I didn't need any further treatment at this stage and refunded my money. I could not recommend them highly enough.

We have now exchanged, the vendor had gone behind both our and the agents back and had gone to another agent all together after been contacted by acorn so we would both have been disappointed. It seems at the moment that agents are contacting vendors of sold properties deliberately and being told they can get more if they switch. I was surprised the vendor hadn't come and asked us directly for an increased offer rather than just switching but think when vendors who are chain free themselves are told they can get ?50k more it must be very tempting not to take it. We offered a little bit more in exchange for an immediate exchange which has now thankfully happened. Thanks for all the nice comments my reason for posting was simply to raise awareness of this kind of activity in the current market from particular agents. Not all agents are bad I've previously had an excellent experience with Roy brooks, KFh and the agent who sold the property to us in this case has also been very professional. it's just unfortunate some agents have to operate the way they do to get business. A lot of my friends are buying and or selling and almost everyone has some sort of underhand dealings associated. One of my friends was told by an agent that unless they put their house on the market with them they wouldn't be inclined to have their best interests at heart when it came to the purchase of a property that they were handling which again is totally out of order

We have just found out too that she did this only for the difference of 15k too! Which if she'd have asked us to up our offer by we begrudgingly would have paid!!

We use milk and more and they are great

You go with the agent selling the house we can't dictate that as a buyer

True the vendor is predominantly to blame. We stopped looking when we could have carried on found something better and done the same to her. when we sold our flat the price went up by at least 25k during the process but when you make a commitment legally binding or otherwise you honour it. Sadly this is not my only negative experience with acorn and when I bought my flat with them experienced similar unprofessionalism. There are definitely more professional agencies such as Roy Brooke's who my friend was with when they experienced something similar and Roy brooks were very proactive in discouraging this kind of thing and also recovering costs on their behalf. The only way people/agents will ever think twice is if behaviour like this is highlighted and people don't just accept it. Just because it happens doesn't make it ok and it shouldn't be without consequence. Also to people buying properties it's important to know that agents are behaving in this way and to keep their wits about them.

Just thought it important to let people looking for houses in the area know that Acorn are behaving in a very unscrupulous manner. We had an offer accepted on a house 4 months ago, we were one week away from exchanging and Acorn encouraged the seller to pull out and re-market with themselves instead of the original agent who sold the house to us. I realise this is a competitive market but buyers in the area should be aware that this kind of tactic is being encouraged by Acorn with a very low level of professional integrity. Also be aware that also there are clearly sellers behaving without integrity this has now cost us thousands of pounds in fees and costs and priced us out of the market as prices have gone up so much in the area.

Just thought it important to let people looking for houses in the area know that Acorn are behaving in a very unscrupulous manner. We had an offer accepted on a house 4 months ago, we were one week away from exchanging and Acorn encouraged the seller to pull out and re-market with themselves instead of the original agent who sold the house to us. I realise this is a competitive market but buyers in the area should be aware that this kind of tactic is being encouraged by Acorn with a very low level of professional integrity. Also be aware that also there are clearly sellers behaving without integrity this has now cost us thousands of pounds in fees and costs and priced us out of the market as prices have gone up so much in the area.

I wouldn't recommend them any longer. We've been loyal to them for years but last few times I've been they've been incredibly slow, some of our party had finished their meals before others had even got there's and this is only on a table of 3!! Last week I went and ordered a mojito which they'd made with oranges and lemon (why??)there was absolutely no lime. I wasn't going to complain but when I picked out the fruit (I don't like orange in drinks)the fruit was old, mouldy and had clearly been used in others peoples drinks before. I complained and asked for a new one which was exactly the same. That evening I became extremely unwell. I would have definitely recommended it 12 months ago but not now. It's a real shame because I absolutely adore the food.