Keying Foxtons Minis

[millionreasons]

Ah fuck off Foxtons with your 'punk' mini coopers and your A-level in Psychology mindgames and your refusal to let us view the flats we want to see. Estate agents are the gate-keepers to The Dream Home and you have to know the password to get in, otherwise they'll fob you off with studio flats on sink estates or million pound mansions in Edmonton. Foxtons are the Tescos of the estate agent world, the others might be not quite as awful, but they're much the same. The 14 year old boy from Ludlow Thompson (Sainsbury's) who came around to value my flat gave me the marketing spiel about how they always pick up potential buyers, how they're open on Sundays and how they don't play off buyers against each other. However, the 14 year old at our local LT office said he'd meet us at the place we wanted to view and refused to do Sunday, all the while claiming that the it was 'just a mistake on the website' that the flat stated 'under offer'. Squatting in an autonomous commune is starting to look more and more attractive.

[My own estate agent (Lidl) deals with everything by standard email so it can't give any bullshit to people wanting to see my flat].

Comments

[harmlesskitty.livejournal.com]

with two people in my household flat-hunting they have bacome known as The Mini Driving Twats. the fvckers wanted my full address, phone number and (perhaps i am fibbing here) date of birth before they'd even let me speak with a sales boy. so far i'm pretty happy with the service from the little agent with three offices that i'm buying through.

[millionreasons.livejournal.com]

It's v frustrating because I wouldn't deal with Foxtons on principle (the minis, the bad press, the feedback from friends, the bullying) but they and LudlowT have the properties that we want. The other estate agents in N London seem to be the Waitrose - lots of posh properties way out of our meagre price range.

[harmlesskitty.livejournal.com]

i am lucky that my budget, which made some agents spontaneously laugh, meant that i had to go further north than where i am and to such a dodgy area that even the Twats don't bother having offices there.