Bristol Real Properties

I don’t think I’ve ever used the cliché Unilocal phrase «I would have given it 0 stars if that was an option!» However, I was most tempted to write that before this review.
I looked them up before I moved in and I should’ve heeded the other complaint I found on a site that warned of their being unprofessional. However, I needed an apartment so I moved in anyway, and any and all dealings with these people proved to be awful, overly difficult, and overall shady. These people are the worst landlords I’ve ever encountered.
I knew the person who lived in the building before and he was angry about there being mold and a rodent infestation, however my unit seemed fine which is why I didn’t take that as a warning sign. The person who lived there before was a good friend of mine so he left some furniture behind in the apartment for me to have when I moved in. We asked the landlords THREE times if it would be okay to leave things there, and they assured us it would be fine. What happens the day I move in? Oh, everything is GONE. All the nice stuff that was left there from my friend, vanished. [Funny story about the day I moved in too, I had to delay my move in several days because they kept telling me the cleaning woman was coming and she never came. Oh actually she came, after delaying and delaying they finally told me I could move in, and THEN the day they told me I could move in, the cleaning lady is there. Where am I supposed to put things when she hasn’t even cleaned the carpet?]
I call the landlords who then seem to have forgotten ever being asked THREE separate times if it would be okay to leave things in the apartment. The woman proceeds to haughtily explain that since we didn’t label anything there [oh except that they didn’t tell us anything actually needed to be labelled!] it must have been thrown away. Okay, FINE. Frustrating but FINE. I quickly figured out that if I wanted to be at all happy in my new place I had to deal with these people as little as possible, which actually worked out alright until it came time to move out. I notified them of my plans to move out as soon as my lease was up, and I moved all my things out. Since they are terrible at responding to mail and email, I called them to give them my forwarding address for my security deposit. This is where things got really fun!
They did not ever call me back, but as I checked my bank account while the weeks rolled by, I noticed they never cashed my last rent check, so I assumed they were letting me keep that as it was the same amount as my deposit. NOPE!
Apparently they had been hoarding more than one of my rent checks (which I didn’t notice since I had to pay new rent and a new deposit on my new place and had many other checks for other things being cashed) and then today, with no notice at all, they cashed ALL OF THEM. So I got to wake up to my bank account having THOUSANDS missing, no idea why, and several overdraft fees on top of that. Oh and still no word on when/​IF I will ever be getting my security deposit back.
Luckily for me, I took pictures of my place after I moved out so that it can plainly be seen that there was no damage or anything they would need to keep my deposit for.
If you’re reading this you may very well be a desperate college student like I was, just looking for a place to stay that’s close to campus. But I strongly advise that you do not deal with these people no matter how desperate you are.