Pickwick Estates showed me a modern flat with turd streaks in the toilet basin. The house was beautiful online, of course, but absolutely rank in person. Apparently the previous tenants did not clean the entire time they resided there. Unfortunately, that was all too evident during the visit. There were used house shoes on the floor, rotting bread in the refrigerator, futile fresh scent plug ins everywhere and intense limescale and bathing grime all over the shower. The place itself was breathtaking underneath the two foot layer of visible toe grease funk.
Maybe because I'm an OCD clean freak, or because I'm just a general freak, I can't bring myself to trust an estate agent who doesn't prepare to clean the house before viewings. Paolo, the agent who did the viewing was awesome, he was the nicest guy ever. I absolutely loved chatting with him about hangovers, but unless he slipped something into my whisky I wouldn't rent a home from him. Oh, and the most classic part about this situation was that his excuse for the state of the flat was because they 'don't even bother cleaning the place up until just before the tenants move in, otherwise there would be a layer of dust accumulating while the place waits to get occupied'. B.S. 5000.
**The service was excellent, Paolo is really cool. Would have given it a four star rating if the place was clean. read more