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Don't put an alarm box on the outside of your house
Was reading yesterday in the Sunday Mail,that councils have been told when evaluating properties for council tax purposes to put those with burglar alarm boxes in the next higher council tax bracket.Presumably just another way of getting our money.
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Am i as Managing agent to blame?
Hi Guys Had a bit of trouble ova the weekend, I have been given a couple of properties to find a tenant for. (landlord is also a solicitor) I received a call from the landlord, who has told me the property has been broken into this wkend, they have stole boiler, pipes and made damage. It seems they got in through an open…
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Hous.Assos won't fix faulty fire alarm (in block of flats) what to do?
Hi, a friend of mine lives in a Housing association building. its an old house made into 7 flats. The fire alarm kept going off every few hours, HA wa called, few days later came out and said its fixed. still carried on for couple of weeks. came out again reckoned its faulty and showed the tenants how to silence it???…
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Should i buy for 77k??
Hi everyone im just looking for a few opinions. We have been living at the inlaws for about 8 months now after sellling our house. We have been reluctant to buy at the minute obviously but last week we heard the sad news of an old man passing away. His son then asked if we were interested in buying the house he had lived…
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FTB'ers Problems Solved
Social Squatting, if I was a young person trying to get on the housing ladder this would be very tempting. Seems like a perfectly reasonable response to the self serving greed of the last 7 years. If you know of any empty properties lying about send them in - especially if they belong to BMV'ers :beer:
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Buying another house
Hi, Recently we found out my b-in-law has terminal cancer. So he came to stay with my wife and I (having got him out of a crappy council flat in London) so she could look after him. Having completed his chemo & radio he is feeling better and wants to get a place of his own (although his long term prognosis is obviously not…
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at what point does one set an exchange date?
our buyers have gone quiet and their buyer keeps making enquiries about this and that, after 2 months, i think we should be making some dates?
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Help needed with rights when renting!
Hi I don't know if anyone can help me but I'm in desperate need of advice. Me and my partner viewed a flat through an estate agent and decided we wanted to rent it. We agreed on the 15th March as a moving in date. Yesterday we signed the tenancy agreement and went to the property to meet the person carrying out the…
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Help please I'm supposed to be completing on the 20th and now THIS has happened
Advise me please about this: I am supposed to be completing my sale and purchase on the 20th, ie Thursday coming. My buyers did their OS1 search on Friday and found that there is a priority search in for someone called Wellcome Finance, done on March 6th. I've never asked this outfit for a secured loan, much less had a…
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Frustration of a market on a knife edge!
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills! I'm in an annoying situation and just venting my frustration. I'm 25 now, did the whole uni thing and now I'm in a job thats as recession proof as any other. Problem is I'm living with the folks still, thinking I can't sponge off them forever and because things are going well at work…
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Can mortgage agreement be extended?
you intitally get a mortgage agreement for 6 months. If you're not ready to complete at the end of the 6 months can it be extended? Does it make any difference if it is a fixed rate or tracker mortgage?:confused:
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neighbour trouble
i have sold my house, and we have now exchanged contracts, the neighbours next door have now started to build a makeshift extension, that certainly has no planning and would not pass any building regs! its going to block most of the light from our kitchen window. what should i do? should i ignore it as we leave in 5 or six…
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50% freehold purchase & lease extension
Can anyone help? My neighbour and I are in process of extending our leases. She hold the entire freehold for the building [ 2 flats in total]. I am in process of purchasing my 50% of the freehold. The joint freehold papers have still to be registered with the land registry. But my neighbour's solicitor has sent the…
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"For Sale" boards
Hello There, I've been reading these forums for a while now and find them very interesting. I'm thinking of selling my home and have just had 3 EA's round to get valuations, have never sold a house before. My question is why do so many people not have "For Sale" boards put up on their property? I have looked for properties…
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Council house entitlement!!!
Does anyone out there know whether we are entitled to a bigger council place? 2 adults, my daughter who is 12, and partners 8 year old son that stays every other weekend. (9 this year) We live in a 2 bed council flat, his son sleeps on settee in front room when he stays. Are we entitled to a 3 bed? Thanks ahead for any…
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Notice to Quit
Can someone please explain what happens in each of the following circumstances I have found myself in this month. In Scotland - Notice to quit issued. 1) Tenant moves out before the date they have to quit. When does their liability for rent / council tax etc end? 2) Tenant does not move out and in fact stays on in…
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Baby arriving, need to move. Sell at a loss/break even or rent it out?
Hi, i'm a long time lurker, first time poster...this one's a real quandary...
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Strategies for keeping hope going until house prices drop!
After returning from overseas 18 months ago, we (me, dh, son of 8 and daughter of 6) have been living in rental accommodation. The town we are in was chosen because that's where we found the first rental (ie, mainly by chance). We moved on after a year to a town centre newbuild, mainly because of noise problems with the…
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Would a swimming pool decrease value of house?
I've heard that swimming pools can devalue a house (unless it's a mansion a la Beckham type place) and some friends of mine have found a 5 bed house for sale in Balham, London with an inbuilt pool. The road it's situated in I know very well (I used to live in a road off it) but it's a very average road in terms of…
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how much to offer?
I'd be grateful for some help, we've had an offer in on our property (FTBs) and are wanting to make an offer on the property we have seen. The particulars say offers in the region of £165,000, by the vendor said she would accept £160,000 as she wanted to get rid (she is living elsewhere) but implied that she wouldn't…
