Probably the most unprofessional and unhelpful company I've ever had the misfortune of dealing with. I've rented over a dozen properties, and I've never come across a worse letting agent than Letwise.
After we told them in we'd prefer a three month contract rather than the usual six, because we knew we wanted to move in the nearish future, they refused to even offer us a six month contract and demanded that we either sign a nine month contract or get out of the property. Their reasoning behind this was that a three or six month contract would mean they would have to try to let the property in September or January, which I was told was the start of the quiet season. No-one I've spoken to since (including several estate agents) has heard of such a season, and nor have they ever heard of a nine month contract being forced on tenants. Basically, we were being shafted because Letwise felt that they might not have been able to do their jobs and get a new tenant for the landlord at that time of year (incidentally, of those dozen or so properties I've rented, more than half have been rented in what Letwise perceive to be the quiet season). This at a time when the rental market is stronger than it's been in years! Whatever their reasons, their actions and attitude in dealing with us showed that they weren't even remotely interested in our needs as tenants.
The final insult came when, after we were forced out of the property (fortunately we managed to buy a house in near record time, moving out on the very day that Letwise sought to evict us) we had to wait precisely one month for them to refund our deposit it finally took the threat of legal action to get them to pay up. I can only imagine what their reaction would have been had we withheld a rental payment for that long! They took some money off the deposit as well, not for any good reason (the house was far cleaner when we left it than it was when we moved in), but by that point I was so sick of dealing with these charlatans that I was happy to lose that money just to be away from them.
I can only recommend that prospective tenants stay well away from this company, and I hope that landlords stay away from them too, because quite frankly they deserve to go out of business. An utterly atrocious company who only get one star from me because I can't give them any less. read more