Please create a new post in the ‘Property Ombudsman’ Forum so other users can see the progress you are making and also be able to provide assistance to you. The Property Ombudsman Service (TPOS) can look at complaints that have arisen since September 2011 – usually, your contract needs to have been signed after this… Read Article →
You should get an initial response from RTA within 14 days and a full response within 28 days. If you get no response then send a reminder letter (send signed for) and include a copy of your original complaint. If you still do not get a response or do not have your complaint answered in… Read Article →
If you have a dispute with a Business Transfer Agent then the first step you need to take is to make a formal complaint using the company’s Formal Complaints Process. If you can’t find the process on the company’s web-site then write a letter asking how you can complain about the service. You MUST take… Read Article →
Do You Need Legal Assistance? Are you seeking legal assistance to fight a claim from a business transfer agent, or to extract yourself from their contract? We have solicitors who specialise in cases against business transfer agents and brokers. Please be aware, however, that none of these services are free and no lawyers offer a… Read Article →
If you are thinking of selling your business you may want to advertise it yourself in a newspaper or specialist commercial property paper or you may be considering using an agent. Selecting an Agent: As with any service you are considering purchasing we would offer the following advice – Try to get recommendations from people… Read Article →
My name is Dawn Burdett and I’m a married mother of 2 from the East Midlands. I signed a contract with RTA in August 2005. Like Gill Draper, I didn’t have the up-front fee so they upped the withdrawal fee. Again, like Gill, the rep said the contract was for 12 months. He valued the… Read Article →
My name is Gill Draper. Me and my partner own a pub in Cambridgeshire. On the 23rd of November 2006 we asked for a rep from rta to come to see us, we had flown in from Spain as the people renting the pub wanted to come out so we decided to sell it.The salesman… Read Article →
My name is Tina Papworth. I signed up with RTA in Nov 2008. The sales man was very nice and I assumed the contract was like any other agents contract. 6 months into the agreement I asked to be released from the contract as my house was being repossessed but they refused. Nearly a year… Read Article →
My name is Majid Ahari. On March 20th 2009, RTA , following six months of intensive and aggressive Telephone calls /faxes to our office, came to our Havant office at Hampshire to price our Business (which was a Civil Engineering Company), their agent without inspecting our company’s accounts estimated price of our Business as £713K… Read Article →
My name is Mal. My husband and I have a greeting card shop. Someone from RTA called us in early January 2010 and as we’d been planning our retirement, we agreed to see one of their representatives on 26th January. The rep arrived and we discussed the sale in the shop, in between serving customers… Read Article →