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What do I need to do to place before getting a valuation?
Quick question, might sound silly. Wanting to sell our flat. Obviously, before any viewings takes place, we want to paint a couple of interior doors to spruce them up a bit, nothing major, spring clean the whole place etc...the usual House Doctor stuff....but to get a valuation from a few Estate Agents, do I need to do all…
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Landlord defaulting
Hello, My daughter and her boyfriend are renting a house for which I am a guarantor. Yesterday they received a court order that the house needs to be made vacant by November 7th. They have an ast until 1-4-2008 and have no arrears regarding rent or anything else. They have spoken with the letting agent, and were assured…
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Signing over ownership
Hi There I have just separated from my husband and he has offered to sign our flat (mortgage)over to me (its only in his name) and I would be giving him a lump sum of money as the house is worth over double what we bought it for. Is signing a house over to a spouse simple? How long would it take and what costs are…
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Should I consider letting to potential purchasers?
We are selling a property in which we do not live. A couple who are relocating for to the area work reasons are extremely interested in purchasing, but have yet to sell their own property. I'd be interested to hear what options forum members might think worth considering, including whether we should suggest they might rent…
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Life Cover & Contents Insurance
Hi All, We are in the process of buying a house (part share) and we are happy with the mortgage the Mortgage advisor has sorted for us, however he is basically trying to push that we take out the life cover (£16 each per month) and contents insurance (£15 per month) through him. From one I can work out he gets paid…
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Lodging/renting - deposit
Hi, I'm looking either to lodge or rent a room when I move south next month and wondered whether I'll be covered by the new deposit protection scheme? I know (from the Shelter website) that lodging is a bit different to other renting and it didn't sound like there would be any sort of deposit protection scheme (all the ads…
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Rent arrears
I'm hoping I've put this on the right board, if not please accept my apologies. My family and I live in private rented property, and over the last year have unfortunately had to move 3 times. 2 Properties ago (hope this makes sense) it was our decision to move as I had just had a baby and wanted to move closer to my mum.…
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Completed yesterday !! bad surprise
Hi Guys, After long waiting of 2 months, we've finally got the keys yesterday, and started moving into new house !!!.. to our great surprise, our 'nice' vendor has left a huge amount of rubbish, and even more in the loft !!!.. only yesterday, we had a chance to properly VIEW THE PROPERTY.. I am really anonyed to find out…
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Recommnendation for Farnham Chartered Surveyor
Apologies if this is the wrong forum but does anyone have a recommendation for a chartered surveyor to do a building survey in the Farnham area. Thanks.
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Tennant or not?
Hi (sorry for the essay ;) ), As I've posted before, my fiancé and her brothers have a house they inherited from their mother. Her old partner is still living there and is still guardian of the youngest brother which has been agreed to be given over to my fiancé and he will come live with us which is what he wants. This…
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My Freeholder is holding up the sale of my leasehold flat
I am in the process of selling my leasehold flat and as a par for the course, the potential buyer has some general questions to be answered, such as details of ground rent, future maintenance etc. These have been relayed now twice in the last two weeks, via my conveyancer to the freeholder. I have a 'frosty' relationship…
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Non-completion
Hi, I exchanged contracts on the 25/09/07 with a completion date set for yesterday (23/10/07). The buyer has failed to complete because of problems with the mortgage offer. Everything is still going ahead but is delayed. Question is, what happens now?
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developer interested in my house and three others in road
Wonder if anybody out there has any information on if the developer buys all the houses how the money gets split because our house is double the size of the other houses and has about double the land. Any help in what to do would be helpful.
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About to buy but is it the right thing to do?
Hello, i am new to the forum and am hoping people here could give me their advice in my current situation: I am about to buy a house with my husband. We will be taking on a 126K mortgage and have put down a 10% deposit.(house cost 140k) The completion date is iminent - in about 3 weeks time. My husband and I are both 37 so…
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2 potential buyers - but complications
After 3 months on the market we swapped agents a few days ago and dropped the price. On Monday we received a lowish offer from first timers. We are waiting to see if they will go slightly higher as we have already dropped the price by £7k and this is another £7k under that. They are discussing with their family (who I…
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Mortgage Offer Extension
Wonder if anyone can help? Really fed up today found out that one of our chain dropped out yesterday and so the house at the beginning of our chain needs to be resold! Was hoping to move in mid November but not looking likely now. We are worrying as our mortgage offer runs out on 30 November - what happens in these cases?…
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POLL dividing this board into three sub-boards
Dear all... after some discussion (and tre3mor's original suggestion) I've posted a poll regarding dividing this thread into three. I'd really appreciate anyone who has an opinion on this going and having a look and voting. This is the link: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=582940 :beer: PS apologies…
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Please help - 3 offers, no sale!
Hi, I am hoping that advice or reassurance might be on offer to a desperate housewife! We have had our house on the market since April. It has so far attracted the following offers: 1. Fair offer made in July, accepted by us but withdrawn the following day by buyer. They had offered as cash buyers but a sudden unexpected…
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I'm on the radio again
'Cutting out the EA' :shhh: This time with a bit of a hangover as I visited my sister-in-law, sort of forgot, and got plied with booze. :o
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Repo Help
I really could do with some help or info about this subject...from anyone. We have been in the process of buying a house for the last 2 months. When last week I went to take a quick peek at our property as "we should be near completion any time soon" Lo and behold there is a reposession notice on the window. Now we knew at…
