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Buying or renting in Sandwich
Hi all, Can anyone tell me about Sandwich please? We're contemplating a move there fairly soon for my husband's job and, although we've both lived in Kent before, we know nothing about this particular area. We would really like a fairly quiet area but also need good transport links (as I don't drive). What are the nice…
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Estate Agent advice
Can anyone give me some advice? We put our house on the market to buy a house that we had seen. We decided to go with the same agent to speed up the process. We then lost our buyer, but the owner of the house we want happens to be a developer and has offered a part exchange. We have lowered our price to go with this,…
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Renting without an Agent
Hi Everyone, I am considering renting out my mortaged house as I am going to be working abroad for a while. The rental prices in our area should just cover mortgage payments but the huge fees that I have recently found out Agents charge would leave me at a loss. I dont want to sell yet, does anyone have any advise or…
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am i being a moaner?
i rent my spare room to a lad from work, didnt know each other til he noved in last year now we've got to be good mates. my only gripe is he does 2 laods of washing and locks it in his room even when its bright and sunny outside and the room (or contents) stinks of damp. ive mentioned it a couple of times he laughs it off'…
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Sell or Let?
Just thought I'd post here for advice, seem to be a lot of helpful replies to previous posters. We have 2 houses, the 2nd we bought last year for 127k with a 20K deposit to do up and move into later this year (now completed work) Main house is mortgaged to 80k with comparable houses in same street priced at 115K down from…
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Are my tenants over-reacting?!
We are renting out a beautiful newly restored garden flat to a retired couple and since they moved in we've had nothing but trouble from them. The flat itself, is all brand new, including new double glazing, a new boiler through to new carpets, decor, kitchen and bathroom. We even had the garden done too. We did this as we…
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Buy houses for free or with your deposit paid
Lets all stick to doom and gloom and put our money in an ISA at 5%!
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House sold advice required
We finally completed on the sale of our house last week, and today I get a call from the estate agent explaining that our buyers are unhappy with the front windows, (they won't open) Buyers were aware of this problem and we took an offer on the property to more than reflect the cost of the repairs, she checked the windows…
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Shipping 1 carton to New Zealand
Hi everyone I need to ship a smallish bag to New Zealand. It's one of those checkered plastic bags you can pick up from Woolworths. Can anyone recommend a good company (from the many)? Do they offer different timeframes to get the bag thee? Roughly how much does it cost to ship (assuming the price moves up in increments,…
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Private Landlords
Hi everyone, Im looking to rent a house in the next few months, first time renting. We are keen to rent privately from a LL but im wondering where you find properties for rent on the internet, everything is with letting agencies! Is the only place to find them in the local newpapers? Any advise would be greatly…
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How can one become an estate agent and work for himself?
Hi I'm interested in becoming a self employed estate agent on my own and I was wondering about how I should go about it? I no that there are no minimum requirements and I do work in financial sales. In terms of valuing properties can I get professional valuers to to that and then pay them a fee? Can one start small and…
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Free Auction Websites
Hya peeps having just sold our house my wife and i are looking to buy an auction property, every auction site we have looked at or have spoken too seem to want x amount of money for there services, i just wandered if any of you peeps could point me in the right direction, or is paying a fee the nature of the beast, many…
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Paying tax on income from lodgers
Hi, I'm thinking about renting a couple of rooms in my house to lodgers. I've heard about the governments 'rent a room scheme', however I'm wondering if instead of this I could declare the extra income in a tax return on the property pages and offset the income against expenses incurred, so that I do not have to pay any…
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selling our house
how do we do it, we need to move due to work but have never sold a home, can we use the same mortgage, when do we look for a house, so confussed
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Name of website where you can find house price sales?
I've looked on upmystreet for a price of a house. I want to know how much the original owner paid for it, but the figures are conflicting. Anyone know any other websites that allow you to check how much they sold for?
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Advice Needed
hi, im writing on behalf of my mother. She, along with my two teenage brothers, have been renting a house from a private L/L sice last september. On the 1st May she received an eviction notice for 14th May. It turns out thet that L/L has not paid the mortgage since Dec 07 (even though the rent has been paid). After trying…
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no garage door keys?
We just completed on our house today (yay!) but went round and they have left the garage door unlocked but no key in sight and for the back door the key is BROKEN... it it just a pole with the actual key bit broken off and it is stuck locked... What can we do about this? I expected the garage door to be lockable but it's…
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Recently self employed, want to buy new home - advice please?
Hi, would really like some advice.... ....my husband has been self employed since Nov 07, we have had mortgage on current house since Oct 01. I am on incapacity benefit (left my job not long after returning from maternity & left due to redundancy and illhealth means currently unable to work. We are looking at buying a new…
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Insurance Help
Hi All, I recently had a leak in my kitchen - there was water dripping from my celing into the room. I had a builder come round and look at it and after a week of confusion, we eventually worked out that the problem was to do with me neighbour's house that caused the leaking in my kitchen. Anyway, I have explained the…
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Should We Pull Out at This Late Stage?
I'm a new member to your site but have been reading it for the last few weeks and find the information very helpful indeed. We are in the middle of moving, and have hit upon a problem and would appreciate any advice you may have for us. We viewed a property on the south coast and put in an offer of £247.000 which was…
