All the usual: upon vacating the property inventing damages to try and keep the bond, nitpicking on cleaning (some of the outlined problems were leaving a bunch of hangers in a cupboard and a tiny piece of sticky tape on the floor). Very poor communication upon vacating the property.

The agent/landlord tried to unreasonably increase the rent half a year after the start of the contract (the original explanation for a 6-month lease given to us by the agent was that the landlord was scared to rent long term for the first time, not that they were planning to manipulate us into paying a higher rent). The agent haggled with me for ages, even though I gave firm conditions in response to that request.

I have now tried to contact Aisha via email, phone and SMS about a simple question I have about a property. Do you think she can return any of them? NO. Just going through the motions are we? It's no wonder agencies are being disrupted by technology when you get "service" like this. Madeleine though was very helpful I will say which is why I changed the rating from originally a 1 to a 3.

This review relates to the McGrath Hunters Hill Office. They marketed my property for sale. McGrath's presentation, follow through, feedback and marketing pieces all receive a positive report. They were somewhat clumsy with their pitches when trying to close on the exclusive agency agreement, a symptom I expect of John McGraths Friedman like programme. I expected the inevitable vendor conditioning and it took but one open for them to mobilise the negatives. We found a buyer and once contracts had been exchanged McGraths evaporated. No problem r...

Make sure you get that Commission down, we said you can have 2.5 if you achieve the price they said they would get. (Which they didn't) Don't do any of those Newspaper ads. It took 3 months to sell our place and in the end the web did it. The Print Ads were a very, very expensive lesson. They did devote themselves to our house and they are very slick well oiled machine. We didn't get anywhere near the price they said they would get but 3 months on a downward market we were just glad it was over. Yes I probably would use them again.
Did devote themselves to selling the property
commission is 2.5% + gst