by Jesser on Thu Feb 10, 2005 10:07 am
This is a personal experience I have had with eve brown, a long long time ago back in the mists of time in second year we rented 10A pilmour links from eve brown. All good so far £45 a week dead on. We did break a few things but nothing major, oh also as an aside work was being done next door and they broke the roof so water leaked into one of the bedrooms when I say water I mean about half an inch, of course you would expect the company to jump into action and fix a poor students house but NOOOOO, it took them two weeks to sort it nice, anyway back to the main rant- When the year ended we did expect to lose some of our deposit, but when no deposit was forthcoming we phoned eve brown and they said the house was so badly damaged we wouldn't get our deposit back. We thought this was a bit wierd so in desperation we phoned the flat and got the owner and he said, as we expected, there was some damage but only £150 worth so what was eve brown doing with the other £650!!!!!!!!!!
I also had friends with a similar problem only they had done zero damage to their house and once again eve brown said they had done to much damage to their flat and would recieve no deposit back. Luckily the girl in questions mum was a barrister and we all threatened them with watchdog so they got their deposit back.
Finally, Eve Brown, as far as I am aware, bank your deposit, I am fairly sure that this is illegal as that money still belongs technically to you and any interest made on it thus belongs to you!!! Imagine how much interest eve brown makes on the thousands it holds in student deposits. I am afraid I cannot say this is gospel truth though.
Eve brown was dropped from some charter recently as well.
This is personal experience but I know of more people who have had similar problems but I am sure there are as many people who have good experiences.
I dont know anybody who has had problems with other letters though
Rant over.