Complaint Review: Regus

1. Give notice that you will vacate at the end of your lease as soon as you sign up, by certified mail. The leases require 3 months’ notice prior to termination, or the lease is automatically renewed. This caught many tenants unaware. Regus denied receiving our notice until we produced the certified receipt.
2. Only use a disposable credit card for Regus payments, perhaps  a Walmart prepaid card. They erroneously double billed us, taking the money from the card, then correcting the overbilling later—much later. Every single billing error benefitted Regus. Check to see if you can just prepay, because billing hassles are guaranteed.
3. Listen carefully when in your office. The temp offices are randomly assigned. Many lack acoustical privacy. In one office I clearly heard a woman provide her social security number and date of birth to a credit repair specialist through the walls in the next office. I told Regus in writing, but nothing was done.
4. Check to see if you will be given an office key. Many Regus temp office can be locked, but you are not given a key. Carrying your laptop to the restroom is wearisome. If Motel 6 can give each guest a key to their room, why not Regus? 
5. The Regus phone system is state of the art. The transmission of voice mail to your e-mail address is especially useful. Conference calls are easy. But be careful to sterilize you phone when you leave, deleting and overstriking the careful record the phone receiver keeps of your calls made, missed, and received.
6. Speaking of sterilization, you need to carry hand wipes to sterilize the phone receiver and touch surfaces. It’s a public phone.
7. Never, ever, dial your bank or credit card company and enter your passwords by phone.
8. Observe where the phones are answered. Are people sitting in the lobby hearing your call screens? Usually Regus has an open reception area where the phones are answered.
9. Never, ever, get your mail delivered to Regus. Get a post office box instead. The Internet is easy to access, but is not secure. Not even close.
10. Do not use the Regus phone number as a primary phone number. Regus threatened to disconnect our Regus phone that day for rent that had already been paid and cleared the bank account. Just have calls forwarded to the Regus number instead.

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