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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

In my experience of private renting... The agents have been the driving force behind most of the problems. The number of miscommunications we've had with landlords via agents is staggering, and they also encourage landlords to go after as much of the deposit as possible on exit.

They screw landlords as well as tenants. I would always advise any tenant going through an agent to insist on meeting the landlord and equally I would advise all landlords using agents to meet their tenants. Beware of agents who don't want you to ever meet your landlord, they are probably charging you both for the same contracts.

As for them pushing landlords to go after as much as possible, don't believe the half of it. Agents are good at pocketing money they claim they are collecting on the landlords behalf.