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should I exchange today (friday)
i have the chance to exchange today, which would be ideal before the holiday season. I am not in a chain, so I am not forced to exchange the three reasons I have not to exchange today are: 1. the vendor says via his solicitors that he has carried out works which I am yet to inspect. 2. i havent tested the services - should…
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change of entry date
Buying a house and have agreed an entry date of 4th of jan, seller has now contacted my solicitor asking to change date of entry to the 11th as they are having problems with the house they are buying. I told my solicitor that this could not be done but tonight the seller contacted me directly and gave a whole sob story and…
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Good news for the housing market and economy for next year
Sooo tempting to post this as my idea: Link
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Stamp Duty
I have bought a house for £155k and noticed that the stamp duty charged was £1,750. Shouldn't this have been based on !% and been £1,550. Or is there some sort of tax on top?
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selling without estate agent
Hi All heres my first off many posts My situation is that i have signed a agreement with a estate agent to sell my proprty before the hip was introduced last week on 2 bed homes the sign is not up untill monday and his not in the paper until after the new year the home is on rightmove and brochure have been produced.…
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websites for private landlords in Scotland?
Does anyone know of any, everytime I google I seem to just bring up letting agencies and with credit referencing I don't think they'll touch us. We're planning to move in May/June and will be going to the Fife area (Kirkcaldy, Burntisland, Glenrothes type area) so as well as trying to get a subscription to the local…
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Letting renewal fees
Hi How much can a lettings agent charge a tenant for renewing a residential tenancy? Your Move, Basingstoke, are charging £100+VAT, which seems very high for printing off a new tenancy with new dates, so I rang round other agents, and £50+VAT seems to be the norm. As I have no choice over the agent, my landlady having…
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Repossession, eviction and renting
I am in a mess. For various reasons I fell behind with my mortgage about 3 years ago and although I have made payments when I have been working, to cut a long story short, the bank are repossessing. I have spent a year in Court trying to stop it and the same year trying to finalise a personal loan to pay off bankruptcy and…
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Boiler broken - letting agent not returning calls, plumber lying through his teeth...
Hi We rent our house via a letting agent and our landlords live in Germany. Up to now we have never had a problem with either. On Friday night our boiler broke, so after a cold night we phoned the LA and they arranged a plumber to come round. The plumber stated that the fan had gone and told us that he would be back…
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No Heating for 3 Months!
Hi everyone I am looking for a bit of advice (its a bit long, sorry!) My boyfriend and I moved into a rented apartment on 5th October. There is a large heater/air conditioner in the front room and electric storage heaters in every other room. When we moved in we were told that the main heater wasn't working. It wasn't…
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Exchange\Completion Questions
Hi All, Bit worried asking for advice on here now as everythread appears to turn into an aggressive HPC thread :rolleyes:. Anyway I'm purchasing a property in a chain i'm at the bottom of the chain so have informed my vendor that i'm chain free but if I find a buyer for mine they may join the chain. (I have a B2Let setup…
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Buyer unhappy with white goods AFTER completion
When I sold my house, I stated that white goods werent included - this was shown on the F&F form. Estate Agents miscommunicated this to buyer when negotiating price and told him they were. As a gesture of goodwill we included some to stop the sale falling through, but stated implicitly that the w/machine would not be one…
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Letting agent querie
Hi everybody. Don't know if this question will be allowed but here goes. Does anyone have experience of dealing with Countrywide letting agencies. My daughter is being treated extremely badly by them at the moment and I would be interested to know whether this is the norm for them or just peculiar to this particular…
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Lead Flashing on New House
I have now finally moved into my nice house but have been informed by the neightbours that over the past few weeks gradually, each of the houses are having the decorative lead flasing over the top of the bay windows pinches. You can't have anything :confused: So before the little gits make a mess of my roof I am wanting to…
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please help bathroom flooded!!!!
hi not sure if anyone can help but it would be much appreciated.. i live in a rented flat and i've just discovered my bathroom is completely flooded the only number i have to contact my landlord on is the letting agents office which is obviously not open, is there any way i could find out the phone number for my landlord…
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Renting References....
I am hoping someone out there can put my mind at rest. I am hoping to move into a rental propery with my partner and am going through the credit and reference checks. However i'm worried as my previous address was a private rental, which un-fortunately ended on bad terms, and I don't have a contact number like they ask you…
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Want to get out of rented place
I am now at the end of my tether, not helped by suffering from flu, a big cold sore appearing today and (sorry guys) almost that time of month:mad: My problem is this....in february my hubby came out of the forces and so we had to give up our Married Quarter. We looked privately and this place was at the time all we could…
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Should we bother putting our names on the council list?
I didnt come on here to be made to feel like a low life . post deleted
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Well my id says it all really plus well and truly shafted!
Could some of you money/legal experts give me your views on this please. [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica]10 months ago I instructed my long term family solicitor who has offices in two NW Leicestershire towns that I was going to sell my shop in the same town at auction, the shop has a sitting tennant of 3 years with an…
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planning rules
my builder has suggested that the law has changed or may be changing shortly to make it easier for owner occupiers to get planning permission for certain works than would previously have required PP. this would of course, save on some fees. is this true and would it be worth waiting?
