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landlord issues? Can I escape?
Hi Basically I am 4 mnths into a 6months tenancy agreement, it ends on the 10th June. We signed for this house at the very end of 2007 and the house was up for sale when we viewed it, The landlord took the for sale sign down and advised our parents (as this is our first house) were a young couple that the house would be…
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Selling house stresses - advice needed!!
Hi All, Been looking at this site ever since i put my house on the market a month or so ago.... Being a first time seller i only wish i had discovered it before signing up with an EA i am entirely unhappy with, but with inexperience got myself tied in :confused: and have weeks left to run with them. However we have had an…
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another 'am i doing the right thing?' thread.
Hi all, I have been renting with the girlfriend for a year in a non central-heated 2-bed flat for £725 a month. the winter was horrifically cold! We would really like to buy a house now. the situation is this: We viewed many properties and put an offer of £150k in on one we really liked (£169k asking). We ended up agreeing…
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Right to buy
Hi i'm new on here and not sure weather this is the correct forum to post this on but here goes! My grans lived in her council house for about 40 years so she's basically payed for the house about twice over! she's in her 90's and has just decided she want to buy the house so she has something to leave me and my sister. We…
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Online conveyancing? Too good to be true?
Hi all, as a FTB who's just agreed an offer on a property, I need to 'instruct a solicitor'.... I've stumbled across a site called 'evolved conveyancing.co.uk' which seems to offer the ideal solution? If it is possible to get all this stuff done via email/phone/web that would be ideal! Has anybody heard of, or used this…
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Selling on Ebay
whats status quo on selling homes on ebay, good idea or bad? has anyone done it this way?
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Selling house - are we mad?
Hello everyone. Just looking for some opinions.:o Husband is currently in the air force and I am a stay at home mum. We have a 1 year old and another on the way and own our own house. We are just about managing to survive but seriously considering selling our house to move into married quarters (rented). Currently we owe…
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Renting a house with bad credit
Hi everyone, im not new to this site, infact ive set this up as i know family and work colleagues that use this site so i dont want them to know my problems lol. To explain, me and my partner have a DMP with the CCCS and owe roughly £20k which at this rate will take us about 10 years to pay off. We have had many…
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Unsellable Falts/ apartments
I s it just me or are more and more flats becoming unsellable, due to there being a huge massive stockpile of new flats and people just dont want flats they want houses. I have a nice ground floor 2 bed flat/ apartment that has been on the market since jan, not long in these conditions but there are also 2 other flat in…
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Liability for broken glass
Good day, We currently rent a house and was wondering about who is liable for the charges to repair a patio window (or as it seems, the entire patio, due to its age). While we were out, our poor dog seemingly broke the glass, probably by running through it - evident by her wounds :( Nevertheless, we have been told by the…
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Gazundering -
Article in the Guardian today : http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/apr/12/property.houseprices3 [Peter Bolton King, chief executive of the National Association of Estate Agents, says he has heard several reports from members that gazundering is making something of a comeback. The Council of Mortgage Lenders painted a…
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Using a "professional" house buyer
Has anyone got any experience of using a "professional" house buying firm please? I'm not desperate to move but there is a bigger place in a good spot on the market that I'm very, very keen on - and we've just lost a buyer (we've been on the market with an estate agent for a couple of months, just the one offer so far…
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Ridiculous survery admin fee
I have a mortgage application going through with halifax, just waiting for valuation. I upgraded the standard valuation to the homebuyers report, and paid £490 for it. This was only £100 more than the valuation so seemed worth the extra. However when I received the info from the surveyors, it said the cost for the…
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Balance due TO client
Good day folks I have received a cheque from the solicitor I used to buy my property. It seems I overpayed them, and they apologise for the oversight. The covering letter is dated June 2006 and the cheque is dated April 2008. Of course, the question is.............am I entitled to interest on the money?
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selling my house privately?
I have had my house on the market for a few months and i am not very impressed with the esate agent. When we gave them the house to sell they promissed us regular updates and we have not heard of them for 12 weeks. We had 1 viewing which i think is okay, but i think that was a friend or employee of the estate agent, infact…
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Is a survey totally necessary?
9 flats in a converted school.Conversion work carried in 1970.Would the basic survey find anything that we can't already see considering our past experience of the last two failed purchases.The building is sound,lower ground just been purchased and a management company has been formed for communal repairs. Thanks to…
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Early redemption charge
Hello, Being a bit of a novice to the housing market I'd be interested in some advice please; I currently have a buy-to-let mortgage on a house with a redemption penalty until November 2008. I would like to sell the house but not pay the redemption penalty, of course. I was wondering if it was possible for me to sell the…
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House with mundic block - how much?
Hi, Was wondering if anybody could help advice me i have done a property search in my local area to see how much simular houses sell for. The Estimate is £225,000 - £180,000 But was wondering how would this price effect a house with mundic block? And what the valuation would then become. End terraced house, 3 bed rooms, 1…
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Help with Eviction Query
I am trying to help out a young couple with baby. They lived in a rented property and knew that the landlord wanted the property back and were waiting for a notice to quit. They went away for a long weekend. When they got back the key would not fit the door !! The locks had been changed and all their property removed and…
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help - should my parents 'gift' my flat to me?
Hi, my parents own the flat I live in, which they bought in 2003 for around £110k. I've lived here since they bought it, and they've also rented the other rooms in the flat (for which they're doing self-assessment). They are thinking about 'gifting' the flat to me, because they've had enough of running it etc and are also…
