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Just moved in
Help I have just moved into a new rented house, i have no promblems with the landlord my problem is that he ballifs are knocking for old tennent. it has got tothe point i scared to leave just in case they get in. How can i stop this as i have no way of knowing who the previous temment owed money to. i have done everything…
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I think we've really sold this time!
After having our house on the market for 3 months, and had only one offer (from someone yet to sell their own place), we have just swapped agents and dropped the price and immediately received a not-too-bad offer from firsttime buyers. Yes!!! Now we are in a dilema (sp?) The houses we would really like for ourselves would…
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And advice FTBs vendors wnat to move for beginning of Nov
We have had an offer accepted on a lovely 2 bed house. When the offer was accepted we told them we need to give 2 months notice on our rented flat. I was advised by the estate agents not to give notice in October as the seller hadn’t yet found anything. They have now found a house to move to but the sellers want to move in…
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DLR Intervention Shaft devalues property
I purchased from a renowned property developer a riverside apartment in 2004. I specifically asked for a property with good views of the river Thames so that I would have one of the best properties in the apartment block. This was an off plan investment. One off the selling points was the fact that the Docklands Light…
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Cheapest HIPS
Just wanted to see what the cheapest price people had paid for this joke. Im looking at paying £279 from these people www.hipsandhcrs.co.uk Am i right in thinking in just getting the most bog standard as possible. Ill be getting 1% inclusive of vat deal with estate agent and doing my own hip but will be trying to get…
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Handing in Notice for rented accomodation...
Hi there, I'm moving out of my flat next month, and need to hand in my notice today. I have spoken to them and they've said a simple letter saying notice a month from today should suffice. I'm wondering whether I should hand in anything else i.e. re my deposit etc. and should I get them to countersign it, and keep a…
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Local area info
Hi I am looking to buy a city centre property, it's near to a nightclub which has been closed for around 2 years, the vendor says he thinks the nightclub is going to be turned into flats. Does anyone know how I can check what is happening to the building, without having to pay for conveyancing? I've spoken to the local…
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Tenancy agreements
Can anyone recommend where I can get a tenancy agreement from which is up to date (includes depsoit scheme) and we can add extra clauses like no access to the loft ? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Moving Home - Sky TV Question
Apologies if this is in the wrong place but does anyone know if Sky charge for moving home? I've spent ages looking on their website and can't find any reference to a charge, but I'm reluctant to spend the rest of the morning in their customer 'service' queues paying their extortionate phone call charges. TIA
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Selling property abroad
Im after a bit of info for some friends if anyone could help me. They have a property in fuerteventura that they wish to sell, but they live in england and run a pub so are pushed for time to sort things out. So were wondering what where the best sites or agents to go with. They arent in a major rush to sell in (want to…
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Section 21 Question....
I've pretty much agreed with my landlady that we will move out on the 13th November but she is still being a bit narky with me and so I just wanted to check something incase the house we are moving too falls through and I need a backup plan. After getting verbal notice on 13th September that the landlady wanted us out in a…
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Will there be a surge of BTL's unloading their property in April?
I was just wondering what effect you guys think the new CGT rates will have on people selling their BTL's. Will there be a glut of flats and FTB type homes on the market in April?
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any of the 'cash for your home' companies any good
Anyone any had any good/bad indifferent experiences with companies like these. Typically what kind of price is given. and does 'open market' value mean something differnet to what you seen in the estate agents window? cheers M
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Urgent rent help
i need some urgent help, In march i was taken to court by the council for rent arrears and a postsoned possession order was granted on the grounds that i paid my weekly rent plus an amount off of the arrears, well due to work drying up i was unable to keep up with repayments. in the last four weeks however we have paid…
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Time from offer to completion
Advice from all experts please! We have accepted an offer on our house, having been told that our buyers had a vendor who was in a rush to get into their house. Our buyers told us on Saturday (they came round following an appointment made by the EA to measure up) that they would look to complete during the first week of…
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Negotiating direct with the seller & best opening offer
We are contemplating putting in an offer for a house that is being marketed by www.housenetwork.co.uk Since the first viewing we have been talking direct to the vendor rather than anyone at housenetwork as it is effectively a private sale. The house has been on the market for c.12 months and was originally priced at £550k…
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Rental prices - negotiable?
Hello, This may be a daft question, but can anybody tell me if house rental prices are negotiable? I've never rented before and I don't want to embarrass myself by trying to knock down the price, if that's not really the done thing. Thanks, in advance.... Lips
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Inconsiderate Tenants Living in House I'm Buying
Hi I need anyone's advice PLEASE! Here's the situation: I'm near completion in buying a house, it's almost gone through except for signing the contract because the seller cannot get the tenants out of the house we're buying. So he's evicting them which could take months in courts. I've seen another house up for sale -…
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Sell and rent back?
Apologies if there is a discussion of this elsewhere - I couldn't find one. Currently the equity in our house is about equivalent to our debt. The best thing for us to do in case of a property price crash is probably to sell and then rent, but we don't really want to do that (I won't list the reasons here). I saw an ad in…
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Inaccurate SPI - reclaiming money before exchange
Hi, I have seen some threads about this topic but none that provide guidance for our situation...........any help would be appreciated. Myself and my boyfriend our buying our first property and were close to exchange when we found out about a right of way over the property (came up in the surveys). This is significant…
