Rent with confidence?

When you rent a property through Holiday-Rentals you are given the option of signing up to a free service, called "Rent with confidence". Sounds good, eh? Actually it means very little indeed, as I have found to my cost. There are a number of others who have suffered the same fate.

I was interested to read that the review I wrote on the property at 63A Harcourt Terrace in London, was followed by another negative review, which had the familiar ring about it - the renter hadn't had his/her deposit refunded.

I pointed this out to Holiday Rentals, who continue to believe that Robin Larkins and The Real World Rental Company are highly reliable, despite repeatedly being advised that they continue this fraud.

Here are the reviews. Anyway, this property is now no longer listed through Holiday-Rentals, but whether that's because Larkins has been unable to get any takers, or whether Holiday Rentals have now finally realised that his fraudulent activities are widespread, and their continuation of allowing him to advertise could be in breach of the Fraud Act, is not clear.

Well, not crystal clear. They seem to have adopted the non-response attitude of their cohort, and they are still advertising some of his properties. I'm not sure why, but you can draw you own conclusions.

I was sad to hear from another victim of the fraud that she too had not received her refund on yet another Holiday-Rentals/Robin Larkins/The Real World Rental Company property. More details to follow.

And yet another victim has written on this site describing their scam.

And on and on...

The Mirror publishes

The Mirror has published the story of my saga with Robin Larkins and The Real World Rental Company, and you can read it here. Feel free to leave a comment of your own experiences.