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Offer accepted and buyer wants seller to take house off the market...
I am now able to make an offer on the house that I want but last week a very low offer was accepted by the seller, I know she is desparate, and the buyer has asked her to take the house off the market. Can I ask the estate agent to approach her with my offer? I have to move on this asap if I am to try to buy this house.…
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Put an offer in....the waiting game
So, found a house with my partner - to the deal. Its up at £130k, supposedly dropped from £135k for a quick sale - but houses on the same estate of the exact same build are all £130k (so it seems average to me, although this house does have a slightly better aspect). When we decided to make an offer after 2 viewings, I…
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Water running down my walls!!!
Under my window sill in the dining room water has appeared. At first I thought it was damp but it has only come in the past 2 weeks. So I thought maybe all this heavy rain. I took off the paper on the patch and there are two small cracks where the water mark comes from. My OH went outside as it's an exterior wall and…
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Any options on this?
http://www.homesonview.co.uk/Scripts/FullDetails.asp?AgencyID=JOHNBRIE&PropID=JBP00749 Four months with only 2 viewings. The agents not with rightmove, is this the proplem?
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plastering for a rewire
Hi, One plasterer has told us that it will take him three to five days to plaster following a rewire in our 4 bed house. About 20 chases to fix and 4 ceilings with spot lights that are coming out to sort. This sounds a bit too long for me. is it possibole that this work can take this long?? I've also been quoted a grand…
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Any Ideas ?
Have decided to sell my btl, not had much interest so far..any recommendations ? http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-18662687.rsp?pa_n=1&tr_t=buy :confused:
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Rent Help- Hard time
My Oh is currently renting a property in Manchester, but is being forced out by the other 3 people in the property (cocky comments, not paying their bills,blanking,ignoring,snidy comments). Unfortuately, she has a tennancy until June which is going to cost her £1400 in rent. She hates it that much shes happy to move back…
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Electrician in manchester
Hi, does abyne know a good electrician in greater manchester? if so i'd be grateful if you could pm me details. need some work doing asap. thanks
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Help... Lots of questions about renting???
Hiya everyone, i really need your help... I have decided to rent privately and the flat i have looked at is with a letting agency, i have to go look properly tomorrow. If i like it do they take i off the market subject to contract? Also its says its a leasehold tenure... havent got a clue what this means? Roughly how much…
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NHBC Certificate
We are in the process of moving and have sold our 4 year old house, my husband took what we thought was our NHBC certificate into the solicitors on Monday morning, then this evening, my solicitors snotty secretary has emailed me (on hotmail might I add) to say that this document we took in was not the insurance…
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Anyone heard of glide??
Hope this is the place to post.... Got a daughter a university and she's come accross a company called glide (http://www.glide.uk.com/ ) they do all the utilies and broadband for about 10 per person per week. Seems too good to be true ! Has anyone else dealt with this company ? Assuming 5 people in one house for 35 weeks…
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Is this rude?
I currently live with my boyfriend in his house, but I have a house of my own about 3 miles away. For complicated reasons that I don't want to go into here, I'd like to sell my house and buy one very close (same or next road) to my boyfriend's house and live there. There's no rush for this, it's something I'd like to do in…
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Recommend plumber in Kent
Hi Can anyone recommend a (CORGi registered) plumber in Kent please, to do a check on the boiler in the place we're buying? Cheers
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What should we do ? - tax implications etc
Folks My girlfriend has just moved in with me - my house is owned outright and I don't have a mortgage, its worth approx £300K. We plan to make this home our home. Her home is also mortgage free and worth approx £90 - 100K, it is approx 50 miles from our home. What should she do with her home ? Sell it ? What should she do…
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Deposit on next house
Hi, Im selling my first house and will be having it valued next week. As i've never sold before (and don't quite understand all that is involved in selling!) I am wandering how we go about putting a deposit down on the next property.........we obviosuly had the deposit saved up on my first house so what happens the second…
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House in West Midlands For Sale - Opinions
Hi, We've had our house on the market for about 8 months now. It's a large country house in the West Midlands on about an acre of land. The house is up for sale for about £795,000 and in my opinion that would of been a bargain price about a year ago. It has 8 bedrooms and even a self-contained annex attached to the house…
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Tenancy - Deposit/Months in Advance query
My husband and I went bankrupt in Dec and our house is due to be repossessed very shortly. We have found somewhere to rent, through a private landlord. He does credit checks, so we were upfront about the bankruptcy, and he said that's no problem as long as we have a guarantor. Initially he wanted the equivalent of a month…
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Full survey costs
When my "potential" buyers put in thier offer they said they would like a full structural survey for the following valid reasons 200+k is a lot of money and its thier first place - I have no problem with this as there are no serious issues with the house which was built in the late 50's - The surveyors contacted me to book…
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Moving to Spain, letting my house
Hi Can people give some help from their own experience on letting out a house while living abroad? Realistically I plan to live in Spain for the forseable future. I have never let out property before and think using a third party agency is the only way to do this. My house is a village located 2-bed terrace near Cambridge,…
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BTL'ers - What are your Agents fees?
I know a number of Landlords 'lurk' on this site , and was wondering what (those of you who use them) Agents charge in Commission for 'Fully managed'
