Picture this, your nineteen, leaving home and moving in with a boyfriend.
What do you want? An easy, stress free move. What do you get? A serious wake up call, and proof that you are obviously far too trusting and naive to be leaving your mothers safe little house and homemade casserole’s just yet.

You spend weeks, months even, trawling through box flat after box flat desperate to find even a tiny bit of character in one of these inexpensive little starter homes, so when you do, it really is like gold dust!

You call for a viewing, get butterflies, visit the property and suddenly your picturing dinner parties, cocktail parties and every other grown up occasion you can think of, In YOUR new humble abode.

You tell the agent, ‘I want it; I have a guarantor, deposit, admin fees and references’. Everything you think they want to hear in a desperate bid to secure what could be your own little party palace! ‘It’s yours’ he tells you, ‘Nobody else will even get a look in.’ At this point this agent is not only the most loyal sales person you have ever met but he is now GOD.

Your home, sipping on champagne, ringing every person you have ever clapped eyes on telling them you are now the proud tenants of that stunning, spacious maisonette. You sit at work the next morning, excitedly awaiting the call from that lovely, honest letting agent you spent the whole evening praising.

Twelve o’ clock. Still waiting. He must be busy. Maybe on lunch? Maybe there has been an emergency? Anything…

Home from work. The agonising wait is far from over not even a courtesy call as yet. But he did say it was ours!

Finally a call, hours later, ‘Sorry, we decided to give it to someone else’

And there it is! Over before it even began! You feel like your whole world has fallen apart! Your back on the beer, calling everyone you have ever clapped eyes on and slating the man who has ruined your life.

So what’s have we learned here? Until you have signed that all important paperwork you are most definitely not the proud owner of that ‘little party palace’ you loved so much.

This experience is unfortunately not an uncommon one. On Rentright every step possible is taken to ensure all property listed on the website is so by reputable agents, helping to eradicate experiences like the above one.