They removed the break clause from my contract

To say that Foxton's employee's are pushy is an understatement.  I was receieving several calls a day pushing me to sign a a contract (that they kept changing).

I'd say, give me 24 hours to read and sign, 2 hours later they woudl be on the phone to me, then 2 hours later and so on.

Any, this guy Hywel Kennedy from the Richmond branch looked me in the eye and said, here is a standard contract, it's all standard stuff nothing out of the ordinary and said it was the same contract that they give to all of their tennants.

I read it anyway and just ignored all of his phone calls that day while i read it.

Without my agreement he had increased the term of the contract from 12 months to 18 months and removed the break clause!!

You should have seen his face when i pulled him up on this.  The lying little **** tried to stitch me up.

He very quickly pasted the break clause back in and returned the term back to 12 months.

Unfotunatly they are notto be trusted, you must read the contract before you sign despite all of the tactics that they will employ in order to scare you into signing.

Tell them that you are definatly going to sign but that you must read it first, it's just a formality.

They will say, well it's a popular property and we have several other interested people.  That's a lie so just stick to your guns.

They also cocked up my rent payments forthe first month, first if telling me that they did not accept standing orders and then making me sign and authorised card payment form to authorise them to take the rent by card payment each month.  weird i thought, but did it anyway.

The next month i got a call from a very, very rude Foxtons employee demanding to know where the oney way.  I explained what they had instructed me to do and they denied it all.  They also went ion to tell the Landlady that i was bengn difficult and this scared her.  She became border line abusive towards me because she had been convinced that i mean.

I paid my rentand set u a standing order which is exactly what i told them i wanted to do in the first place and all is now well but what a stupid situation to be in and all thanks to Foxtons being a bunch of idiots.

I'm glad they are about to go bust, they are corrupt, self serving and imoral.  Good ridence.