It is almost the end of another year. We are still here fighting the good fight, doing lettings as it should be done and keeping landlords and tenants happy.
We are still growing, meeting new people and finding that people like us and what we do. We have only lost three customers in the whole time we have been trading which is a pity but we don't seem to be able to deal well with control freaks who want to micromanage everything about their property themselves. You pay us £65 per month to get on with it not to do it all yourself! Oh well, they have gone to new agents who we know are now suffering as we did.
Sadly not all agents have survived this past year. Charles Lawson has gone from Stert Street, Buckell and Ballard Sales or Adkin as it used to be has gone from the High Street and their lettings department from Bath Street have moved in there.
We hope that everyone else in Abingdon can hang on in the year to come as even though people hate estate agents for some reason we are all human and lots of us have families who need a salary coming in every month to keep a roof over their heads.
We are still hopeful that our way of doing business will continue to be attractive to new customers and there is no reason why it shouldn't be. We are the only fixed price agents in Oxfordshire with no add-ons or odd charges for this and that, just one simple fee and in times when money is tight even landlords like to know exactly what they will be paying out from month to month (barring changes in VAT......)
And, if I hit the target for new lets set by the wife I can buy myself a new pen!
