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Moving Out - Good Cleaning Firms, Please!
Hi - we're moving soon. Can anyone in London recommend any good cleaning firms for our end of tenancy clean? They need to be able to professionally clean carpets (landlord let us have our cat on condition we got this done as its their family home and their daughter has severe asthma set off by pets). Many thanks. We're in…
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House Building question
does any one know what a sub-economic value means i have a bill from my architect billing me for this on a value of 69,ooo.oo for the purposes of there fees
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Moving To New Property Bt Want To Contract Us In!!
moving into new bulid property next week, informed BT and they said they need to send engineer out to check line fittings etc as they have no record of this address (they fitted line etc 6 months ago:confused: ). Once that done done they can connect us but they say we then need to 12 month contract with them, is this…
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Shall we rent out or sell?
Hi there in a real quandry at mo.. have been trying to sell our house for 6 mths now. it is all decoratively up together and a really nice country cottage. we had a flurry of interest and then its gone dead in the last coupe of months (funnily enough around the time the media went crazy over credit) we are now left…
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Stamford Homes
Anyone got experiences of buying a new build house from Stamford Homes ? I'm looking at buying a new build and am interested in part exing my current house, Is it as smooth as they make out ? The house I am interested in is £189.999 reduced by 10K already from £199.999, How much is it possible to knock off and do you think…
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should i sell? (long term strategy)
i have been thinking about my financial position in the last couple of weeks and have still not been able to decide a long term strategy with what i am comfortable with. i am single and 31. i own two properties. one i let out, and its income covers it interest only mortgage and costs. the other i live in, and it was in a…
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Serious Boiler Problems - Housing Association Property
3 weeks ago we could smell a gas smell in our house and next door could too (semi-detached) we had transco out 3 times the 1st day and continuously for 2 weeks we had transco out and also our housing association gas people who checked the boiler, did their tests etc and transco dug up our drive to find out the problem,…
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East Midlands Letting Company
Hi Everyone, I came across this website a few weeks agao and now renting a terrace house from them, seem very very good and wanted to share this with you all as i get most of my tips from here too :D http://www.rooftopdevelopments.co.uk Mark
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Renting a house from parents
My parents inherited a house and aren't having much luck selling it with the current housing market. They've decided to let me and my girlfriend move into it once she's finished uni. They don't necessarily want rent paid to them because they're worried about any implications as this would give us a legal right to be in the…
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How to change estate agents
Hi, After not much luck with my current EA I am going to move to try and get a fresh approach. Also the EA I want to move to seems to be the only one in the area which has sold signs up. What is involved in changing and what do I need to put in the letter to my current EA? Thanks
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what's the difference between a maisonette & flat?
Saw a maisonette and the leasehold is 999 yrs and ground rent is £50. They are both leasehold. I am wondering can you buy your leasehold? Does the ground rent increase every year? Thanks
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Letting at a loss
Hi, This is my first time on this forum and I've read some posts and am hoping some of you clever folk may be able to give me some useful advice. A year ago my husband and I decided to let out our old home on a buy to let remortgage (instead of selling it) to fund our move to our new family home. This was out of…
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Renting out your Property
I'm think of renting out my property for a short term of some two weeks. Although I have no mortgage, but the property is leasehold. The insurance would be adjusted to cover paying guests and a public liability applied. Is this a problem in short term renting.
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giving notice for rented flat advice needed
I've been in my current flat for 3 years but due to expansion of family i need a bigger place, anyway my tenancy agreement ran out November 2007 and i haven't signed a new tenancy agreement, landlord hasn't been in touch either about the length of the tenancy. My prediciment is that i have found a new place but need to…
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Sorry - very naive question...
In the past, people have re-mortgaged their properties against a rise in the market to use the equity in the house to purchase something. If the market crashes, what's to stop people from re-mortgaging their properties and benefiting from a negative-equity situation? I'm sure it's not that simple, but I've been dying to…
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Probate... Money Off Advice Please
hi i would like some advice on a house we put in to buy 10months ago we saw a house for £120k and went in at full asking price and our offer was accepted however after being accepted we found we needed to wait for a probate to be applied and granted before we could move (ouch wasnt stated before we put an offer in) after 6…
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Overseas Letting Agent Keeping Deposit
Hi all, I've had a British LA in Spain point blank refuse to give me back my deposit although they have put it in writing what they owe me. I noticed on another thread that, in the UK, ultimatley its the landlords responsibility to refund this money to you. In this this case, the landlord is in the UK and I know his…
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Sell up or Rent out?
Our Dilema We have a 3 bedroom semi detatched property that we are unsure what to do with..what we do know is that its no longer big enough for us and we need to move, we have picked our new house and are about to make an offer, but its what to do with the 3 bed semi....... sell it? (it seems a shame to rent it out when we…
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Transferring $$ from abroad
Hi everyone We are thinking of transferring money from abroad to bump up our deposit. Has anyone had experience with transferring such amounts? Is it better to do this bit by bit or in one large amount? My initial thoughts are that the high street banks are not the best as they don't give the best exchange rates. Any…
