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help with landlord
To cut a long story short, myself and my landlord fell out. I had enough of her thinking, just because i rent a flat of her, I am scum, and she can speak to me how she likes...well she didn't like that and sent a friend or someone round to tell me that I’ve got to leave at the end of this month (which isn’t a problem I’ve…
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BBC Radio 4 Money Box Saturday 12.04 - 2 economists on house prices
Extract from BBC email: House prices. Will they rise? Fall? Slump. Or stay flat? Well no one really knows. But two top economists – one in the UK and another who looks at world affairs – will tell us what they think. Not predictions, you understand, but indications of where they think things might go. Cautious folk these…
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Remember my 'Upside Down House' threads?? We Xchanged 2day!!
& move in on Monday.... Mrs V bought a new crowbar as the first purchase on her new Capital One Cashback card!! So we start wrecking the place on Tuesday!!! Thanks again for the input - but we'll need lots more help on the DIY board, so keep on clickin'!! VB
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Notice to landlord.. need help
hey.. My contract is due to expire 9th jan 08.. i have lined up a new place to live and due to move in next month some time (waiting on references) Im not sure if i need to give 1 or 2 months notice to my current LL, i have read through the contract and it says nothing about how much notice i should give.. i have an…
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Extension to tenancy: fixed term with or without break clause?
We have lived happily in our rented house for 6 months almost and want to stay here. We have had a letter from the agent saying provided our landlord is willing we may be able to extend. It asks us to complete a slip saying we would like to request an extension to lease agreement as follows Fixed term (please quote length…
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Selling a shared ownership house
My friend is selling her house and it under the shared ownership scheme. Now because the hose prices have risen so much when the organisation decided that it was now to expensive to be SO so she had to sell it on the open market. To cut a very long story short, she is being stung with 7.5K stamp duty charge because she has…
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Gazumped! What are my rights????
Hi guys, Today i have had some bad news and need further advice. We were three weeks from completing on a property and were considered as our solicitors have not been able to make further contact with the vendors solicitors for a week. As the estate agents could'nt make contact with the vendor either, today they went to…
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The joys of a shared ownership new build....
Just a bit of a rant. My girlfriend and I are in the process of buying a new build via shared ownership. We thought this should be pretty stress free as house was already built and we have no chain being FTB's. Our housing association (Flagship Homes) keep saying they are waiting for information from the builders (Crest…
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Tdsra
Hello I have a question about the tenancy deposit scheme of regulated Agents (prior to may 2007). Our deposit is in dispute with our ex-landlady for an amount of 2100 pounds + interest (99 pounds so far). you can find the story here : http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=535649&highlight=loga Now the…
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Tdsra
Hello I have a question about the tenancy deposit scheme of regulated Agents (prior to may 2007). Our deposit is in dispute with our ex-landlady for an amount of 2100 pounds + interest (99 pounds so far). you can find the story here : http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=535649&highlight=loga Now the…
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Getting Round Estate Agent's contract
Hi, Can anyone help me please? In Aug I put my house on the market for 250K. Used the local agents as we weren't in too much of a hurry and were happy with their fee of 0.75%. They sent round 8 viewers on the first day and we had 3 full asking price offers the following day. But, as we were not in a position to be moving…
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Problem with Neighbours
Hi everyone, First post on here so be nice :rotfl: I live on the top floor of a 3 storey flat complex. I do not thump music out and the only noise which I believe I create is from my computer and TV. My downstairs neighbour is a nurse and does night shifts. She has sent me 2 notes and spoken to me once in 2 years. I have…
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To Sell or Not to Sell? Opinions Please..
Heres my situation, after returning from travelling round the world last year I've moved back into my house which is mortgage free and valued at £105,000. I want to move up the property ladder and was intending on selling up and getting a mortgage of around £140,000. The thing is with the property market in the current…
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Previous owners loan still at address?
Hiya all me moved into our home in May this year with the property being vacant since december last year. We are still receiving post for the previous owner despite sending it back (return to sender mrs x no longer lives here) After opening one of her letters by accident we discovered that she has a loan that is still…
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Help with second property.
Hi all, I have been reading these forums for a while and there are an impressive amount knowledgeable people here. So I would like to ask everyone for help with my little dilemma. I own a 3 bed house which I live in, and rent 2 of the rooms. The plan is to buy a second smaller property and fully rent out the house. I know…
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Why are they empty?
Good article in the Times today regarding empty properties/homes. The real shocker is that there are an estimated 840,000 empty homes in the UK.
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Help Re old landlord
Hi All. Sorry if this is in the wrong place but wasn't too sure where to put it. Basically..We rented a place for over a year and when we moved in the flat was in a really bad way so we bought new curtains, light fittings and net curtains as well as painting the place. When we were due to move out the landlord decided he…
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Should i stay or should i go?
Okay, I have a house on mortgage and have £4900 of arrears. In a crappy area but houses are selling quite good as they are quite a bit cheaper then elsewhere. If i sell now i will sell for 90k and the house owes me £66k (including arrears, early redemption etc) so will make roughly 24k OR.... Should i wait till aug 08 (no…
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What do I have to do to get an unlicenced, untaxed, unregistered car moved?
I wrote a thread a few days ago about our nuisance neighbours who are causing our block of flats trouble. They are a group of students. One of them has a boy racer car which has no licence plates, no tax disc, no registration details etc. It is permanetly parked outside in one of the spaces allocated for our block of…
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Could this be the ruin of BTL ?
I'll let you read the article and decide. Basically what it's saying is that over geared BTL Investors could be in for a shock if the Property market has a 'correction' Like other geared Investments, the lender can make a 'margin call' If the Loan-to-value ratio goes against the Investor. Those with the highest LTV's are…
