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council property
has anyone on here had a council flat and been upgraded to a house?
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Capital gains tax
Will I have to pay any tax on the sale of my flat. I purchased my flat from the council 3 years ago and after a year moved in with my girlfriend. We have since married and want to buy our own house together. If I sell my flat now as I havent been living there will I have to pay tax? neither me or my wife have any other…
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Landlord Fitted A Boiler Hes NOT Corgi Registered, need Legal Advice
Hello All. Basically i live in a student house, im due to start college in september in my local town. We heard loud clanging noises coming from the boiler and pipes and informed the landlord. He came out and went to fixed it, before he went ahead i said: 'Are you corgi registered to do the job'? He replied: 'Ive fitted 5…
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buying letting tax help
Hello, I'm not sure where to start, my father has come into some money, so hes looking at putting down 50,000 on a house and getting a buy to let morgage for the rest, 60,000 or so and then me and my family are planning to rent if off him and then the house will be given to me as i don't work but my oh does we couldn't…
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Offering 10% under asking price ?
Would 10% under asking make this a good deal ? http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-13024310.rsp?pa_n=1&tr_t=buy :T
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Will people ever want homes again?
First I want to say thank you to all those who adviced me on the 'Country Wide' subject, it was very helpful. I just wanted to ask if any one ever buys a house for a home now? I've found this site has some very useful input from people, but one thing I've noticed is a lot of discussion regarding how much money people are…
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Question about "wear and tear" rental property...
We are not yet moving out but will be doing soon. Most of the carpets in our house have stains on them (which were there when we moved in, and noted on the inventory). Our darling 2 year old son managed to spill some carpet cleaner (neat) on our bathroom carpet leaving a slightly bleached stain of approx 1 foot square. The…
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help to sell house
I am trying to sell my house but am having trouble getting any viewings. It is in a prime city centre location and is on the market at £454k but still wont shift. things have been booming around here so I can't understand why. Any ideas as to what I can do
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Buying a place with tenents in situ?
Are there legal ramifications for the buyer if a place is bought and has some tenets in situ? So far as I know, there is no lease and the tenets are the vendors relatives. Thanks. edit - we would want vacant posessesion
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Completion Panic - Advice???
I've been buying an apartment over the last 2-3 months and the seller and their solicitor has done nothing but mess me around throughout. Anyway, I finally signed everything last week and left it to my solicitor to agree a completion date. As far as I am aware everything is now finalised and we simply need to agree on a…
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Banks To Disclose Big Increase In Bad Debt
Banks to disclose big increase in bad debt By Harry Wallop, Consumer Affairs Correspondent Last Updated: 3:09am BST 28/07/2007 The increasingly shaky state of householders' finances will be laid bare next week as Britain's top five banks report huge increases in bad debts. City analysts expect them to declare that they…
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Private landlord advice?
Hello, can anyone tell me if private landlords in NI need to fit fire doors to their residential premises?
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Deposit withheld
I vacated the flat I was renting 9th July and the landlord has refused to return the damaged deposit due to my alleged refusal to allow contractors into the flat to fit window locks. Here’s the story: I moved in Aug 2005 and everything was OK up until March 2007 when I was burgled twice in 2 weeks. I wasn’t insured and in…
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Please help - problems with letting agents
We are going to let our house (we are currently living in it and are due to move to a new house in 5 weeks time). We have instructed a letting agent to market the property, and it has been on the market for almost 5 weeks now with them and they have failed to find us a tennant. We originally marketed the property at £840,…
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Neighbours of new tenants!!
Hi, as the title suggests, we have had new tenants move in next door to us this week. From the first impressions it doesn't seem good: Shouting, taking apples off the other neighbours house, then throwing this litter into my back garden!! Have spoken to the estate agent today expressing my concerns. They have said that…
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Could I get forced out?
Hi, abit off topic but still related to a house purchase. We are currentlty going thru a house purchase with david wilsons homes. we should be in by december (hopefully). Now the problem is that I have a work van which is above the weight restriction (1000kg) limit that david wilson has imposed on this housing development.…
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Betterment clause
hi all hope someone can shed some light on this.. A friend is buying a property over the last few months and now everyone in the chain is ready to complete, now its just sprung to light that the property my friend is buying has a betterment clause added at the last minute. As you can guess his fuming, this was not…
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EA copied our insurance claim documents
We handed to our EA an insurance claim paperwork, then decided it better to give it to our Sols a few days later. The EA didn't sell our hse so went to another one. A buyer who put in an offer in the orginal EA is now thinking of buying it thru our new EA. He wants to see the paperwork on the ins. claim to refresh his…
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Tenancy Question
Hi All I hope someone can help me .. If my tenancy transfers from a 6 month AST to a Periodical Tenancy, do the terms and conditions named in the original tenancy agreement still apply. For example, in the AST it says that when I leave the property has to be professionally cleaned .. will this still apply on a periodical?…
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New Build Flats: Risk warning
Beware of the potential downfalls of new build flats. Any comments on the lack of performance? Should we stay clear? What are the downside risks? JoeK
