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mortgage and loan ?
Hello I was lucky (or maybe not ?!) to have my mortgage aproved by a lender / bank. After that, the vendor pulled out so I had to have a look for another house. It was so difficult to find another one but finally I made an offer and has been accepted. The problem is that the new house is with 15k more expensive than the…
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The Legacy of Holy Castle CBT Event--Debugging for Prizes!
The Legacy of Holy Castle CBT Event--Debugging for Prizes! Debugging for Prizes is designed to encourage gamers to report all bugs on the forum. Forum moderator will evaluate the reports and further confirm the bugs by replying on the forum. The moderators will only confirm the first report for all redundant reports. All…
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Proof Of Income When Renting
I wonder if anyone can help. I am going to look at a few flats next week and I worried that the agency I take a flat with are going to ask for proof of income. I have only recently returned from travelling (so haven't been working for 6 months) but do start a new job on the 2nd of June. I am worried that the agency is…
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Bloody neighbours!!!
The scenario..... House on the market at £272,950 Neighbour 4 doors away on at same price He decides he needs to get out quickly so drops his price to £250,000 and now has people fighting over it. The question: Do I wait and see if anyone wants to look at mine once his sale is agreed or do I drop my price too?
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Renting a flat in london
Hi ! Hope i am posting on the right board ... A friend of mine is coming to london in june and wants to rent an apartment with 2 bedrooms for a week. She is coming from India. Any idea how to go about this ? Do we need to contact estate agents ? Thank you for all your help in advance !
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Guide price £180k - £200k - not an auction
So what's this about then? Details give £180k - £200k. The EA said they had put it on at this price 'to see what sort of offers they got' - 'because of the state of the market'. House is empty and 'no onward chain'. What would you offer?
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Do I have to pay additional costs to Landlord?
Hi, Can anybody help me, please? I have a seven year lease with a private landlord who has a number of houses in South Wales. Every year i am sent a bill demading a contribution towards the landlords buildings insurance, this year it is £50.00. I have also been sent a letter to say that this summer, they will be carrying…
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advice on building work
The builders doing our extension have just finished the foundations. They are 9 weeks into the job and are already 3 weeks behind schedule. Initially work was delayed by all of the rainy weather in March, but subsequent delays have been due to work initially done incorrectly having to be redone and to workers doing…
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Advice needed please...............
Hi I really hope someone can help with some advice. I have just been informed by my landlord that they are going to probably sell the house we rent from them due to personal problems at their end. Our lease still has another 6 months to run and I have 3 kids, 2 boys age 8 and 3 and a ickle baby girl who is under a year. I…
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advice please on landlord selling my rented house
hi i need some advice please i am in a horrible situation me and my girlfriend moved into a rented house January and signed a 6 month contract with the landlord who seemed a nice lady and we got on well,on signing the 6 month contract she basically assured us that once our 6 months were up shed be happy for us to resign…
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help - shared house hassles
hi, Just looking for some opinions as having some trouble living in a rented shared house... i found the house through a site online and the LL seemed nice but new to the game. I moved in, as did two other tenants at the same time as me ... one a 16 yr college student and a FT worker. The 16yr recently announced she is…
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Buy Next Door .. or not?
Having a mad (?) idea - grateful for opinions ... Background: owned house (mortgaged) - needed some work, doing it up gradually. b/f moved in - I got posting overseas with job (8 months) in 2006 - b/f bought (mortgaged) house in same area - lived in mine while I was away and totally renovated his house. I returned, we…
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New house offer
We sold last year and have been in rented accommodation waiting to buy a house. We have finally found somewhere but it is a new build (less than ten houses) and the property will not be available for at least six months. With house prices going the way they are (and they are definitely going down in our area) I'm not sure…
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2 bed terrace or new build flat?
I'm a FTB about to exchange contracts on a house, 2 bed terrace, no real parking to speak of (wellthere's a bit of land opposite, owned by council but theycould reclaim at anytime!), itneeds basic work -steel beam to chimney flue in roof, electrics, open splay joint on front purlin, replaced cracked flashing on…
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first time buyer
Hi please help me with this problem. We have been planning to buy a house since 2 years, thank god at last we found a house, but couple of days ago we had a message from our solicitor saying that environmental report shows property is in an area of natural subsidence ,hazard potential ,low risk. we did the home buyers…
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Revolution! Can we advertise our houses privately too?
Hi. My house has been on the market (Scotland) for a few weeks with not one viewer yet. Personally, not a problem as I am not in a hurry to sell. But, comparing it to the last time I sold a property when I had viewings every day, this seems odd. I know the housing market is in decline and am ready for this. But was…
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Urgent advice please - offer accepted 10 weeks ago...
Chaps, and ladies...I'd very much appreciate any advice here. Situation is that we had an offer accepted on a (very small) hotel back in March. Almost three months ago now. Initial asking price was 'offers around £495k'......after two initial bids were rejected, we had a third accepted of £475k. We have had problems with…
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Reduce the price or make them do the work?
Hi folks, First time posting for me..first time buyer too! Eek. So, I had a survey done on an old property..it made some recommendations that should be done before I exchange contracts - the total cost of work I worked out from surveyor's estimates would be around 3 grand/3500. Now my surveyor said to get the vendors to…
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Getting back a holding deposit from a letting agent?
A few days ago I made a rather gun-jumpy decision to put a holding deposit down on a flat (two weeks rent, so just over £200 quid). I have since had so many second thoughts about it that I have decided I'm not taking the flat, and if I lose the money then that's better than moving in there for the sake of *not* losing it.…
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Selling our house
Hi everyone, Just some advise if anyone can help! We put our house on the market 2 weeks ago and we had our first viewer last night, all went well but it seems we have a small patch of damp in our cellar (it is a really small cellar in a 2 bed terrace cottage) maybe the start of problems which i hope can be solved, the…
