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What should they do???
Hi all Parents had offer on their place 10k below asking price although they had already reduced by 20k. New place is in large village with good transport links to city. It needs new kitchen doors, worktop, outside patio doors, flooring, cooker, oven, dishwasher,front door and they would like to add conservatory to side of…
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Solicitor Fees (invoiced 2 years later)
I have a very quick question regarding solicitor fees. Late 2005 and early 2006 (around March) I put in offers for 2 flats (in Scotland) and failed to get either. Yesterday I got an invoice from my solicitor asking for £235 for the work they did for putting the offers in for me. So I just wanted to ask if they are within…
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Self Storage in the north east
Hi - not sure if this is the right forum but I was wondering if anyone knew of a cheap self-storage place in the newcastle-gateshead- sunderland area. At the moment I'm looking at uholdthekey which charge £17ish for 80 square feet of container type storage but I'm wondering if there are any other options - thanks.
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What's the catch??
I've seen a Manchester city centre 2 bed apartment going to auction guide price £85,000 (not by order of mortgagees as far as I'm aware). I've done some looking on the internet and similar apartments were going for £192,000 in Jan 2008 and down to £190,000 in March 2008. Rental income is pretty solid atm at £650 pcm. I've…
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Thinking of buying a house
We've been thinking about moving house, but obviously the way the market's going we've had to think twice. We've seen a house that we like for £145K but it needs a LOT of work done to it and I know the one next door (exactly the same) sold for £151K 2 years ago and it was lovely inside, so we're not so keen to pay the full…
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buying ground rents???
Noticed a few property auctions recently where ground rents were for sale, offering yields of 8%+. Anyone know anything about this?
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Estate agents- any sympathy?
The Times carries the story today of one of Britain's largest Estate Agencies (Humberts) being close to collapse. The second largest (Connells) has reportedly started to raise their fees in an effort to keep afloat. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/money/property_and_mortgages/article3949822.ece humberts…
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selling house or repossesion
Hi all, I've posted a few times about the financial mess we're in and the fact that we are in arrears with our mortgage of 2k, the mortgage company went for repossesion once, but we managed to come to an agreement where we pay an extra £105 per month on top of our mortgage repayments of £1070. Well, the bottom line is, we…
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Mychoice homebuy
Earlier in the year I was looking for a house and couldn't find much I could afford. I was also struggling to raise the deposit. About 5 weeks ago I had a call from the FA at the estate agents, they told me about Homebuy and got me to fill in the forms. I have since had a letter saying I have been accepted. I have an…
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husband left me in a financial mess
I left my husband last year, and he stayed in our jointly owned house. We both continued to pay the mortgage plus two joint loans we had. After staying with my Mum for six months, I now rent a property near to where I work. However, he has since disappeared abroad leaving me with a hefty mortgage and the joint loans. He…
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Key Worker rental scheme
Does anyone have experience, knowledge of this? I would be interested to know the advantages and the pitfalls etc All comments welcome. Thanks in anticipation.
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Unfair Estate Agents Fee
We have recently withdrawn our house from the market as we had problems with our mortgage application. We had a buyer lined up, and we were very sorry and gutted about having to take the house off the market, but we had no choice. This morning I had an invoice from the estate agents for £500 + Vat for "admin fees". Their…
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Advice on how to secure house?
Hi all, Any advice on the following: We're just putting our 2 bed flat on the market and have seen the house we would like to buy. Basically, we're not in the greatest position as currently have no buyer for ours. Any advice / tricks on how to secure the house we want. We have offered the asking price (which has been…
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deposit deduction question.. re damp
we rent out a flat and our tenant has just moved out .. i should point out they had signed a new contract taking them up to october but as they split up wanted out earlier which i allowed (cos i am nice lol) anyways we just took possession back of the property and there is damp mold all over the walls, we were astonished…
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How to get a council flat?
:eek: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1970307/Woman-bought-baby-to-get-a-council-flat.html "A Nigerian woman bought a baby in her home country and pretended it was hers so that she could qualify for a council flat, a court has heard. " Particularly interesting: "Sandberg is a former Kensington Housing Trust worker…
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Stansted/Essex property needed to rent for a month. Urgent.
Hi, My sister needs to find somewhere in the Stansted area to rent for a month from May 25th 2008.Any ideas very much appreciated.
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Decisions Decisions
Hello All £ saving experts! I am in need of some advice. This is my story in brief: I split from my ex of 11 years 10 months ago, he left the house and i have continued to pay the mortgage on my own as wanted the house. Was a full time student so got a lodger in to help out and been qualified 1 month now and my re-mortgage…
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Help - Ridiculous Temporary Consent to Let rules
Hi, I'm due to give birth in late summer and therefore want to move out of my 1-bed flat into a larger place. I tried to sell my flat for 6 months but didn't receive 1 offer. EAs explained that lots of repossessions had come onto the market and therefore asking prices had dropped by £30k. They said that if I dropped my…
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Building Regulations problem
Hi, I'm a FTB and looking for some advice regarding a house I am in the process of purchasing. The house had a load bearing wall taken down in 2006, and we have been advised by our solicitors that building regulations were not obtained for this We are also being advised that the sellers are offering us indemnity insurance…
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Council Tax and Rent - Ex-partner
A relative left her controlling, violent partner of 2 years last month and is now living in her own rented house. Im not 100% sure of what agreement they had but she ended up paying most of the rent because his cheques kept bouncing and he lied...A LOT about paying things and not ever doing so. She also got a council tax…
