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urgent plz help advice needed
I invested in a 1 bedroom apartment in the 20:20 Developments in Leeds through Morris Properties. At the time, they obviously over-priced the apartments, but being 1st time investors fell for their selling pitch. We got the apartment because the incentive of 15% discount was our main interest. We had to pay the reservation…
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Price drops by 10%
A few weeks ago, I viewed a house and offered 10% off the asking price. My offer was rejected, today the EA phoned and left a message and told me that the house has been reduced 10% of the asking price and if I am still interested? What do I do now, the market is changing and obviously I do not want to put an offer the…
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Seller Can't Afford to Pay for HIP (EA Fees & Solicitor's Fee's also possibly)
Hi, I have agreed a price on a house which has been on the market for a few weeks. I have had an email from my solicitor stating that they have requested for the sellers HIP - however the seller is having difficulty in paying for the HIP as well as EA and solicitor's fee's. Where the hell does that leave me? If the seller…
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What does 'POA' mean on Rightmove sales ?
just always wanted to know - is it price on application or something similar? - and what are the implications of this??? thanks!!
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Voluntary Repossession?
Hi There, Just thought a few of you might be interested in this as I got some advice this morning. Have been considering this as a possible last resort as I may have no choice next year anyway. Have had offers on my house slightly lower than the loan of my mortgage. I have been advised to talk to the mortgage company and…
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Stamp Duty exemption
I've heard there is stamp duty exemption in certain areas - is this true?
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can i remove the price registered?
hello Can i remove the price i purchased my house, being shared with house prices websites (housprices.co.uk etcetc)? i suppose they get this from a government database or something?? is there anything i can do so the price i paid for the propoerty can not be displayed and shared to all house websites?:confused: :confused:…
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A friend and 1 would like to know the following
Me and a friend was thinking of forming a property company for buy to let basicly we was thinking of forming a Ltd company but we have been informed most lenders limit what borrowing we can get on the buy to let mortgage range and pay a premium we both are going to split the company in a 33% 66% split due to me allways…
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Big Brother Housing Association!!
I was wondering if people could help with regard to my housing association? They have started doing yearly visits to the property, which I have no problem with however during the first visit I was told that we had too much stuff and we had to get rid of some of it as well as the house being untidy and we needed to tidy up.…
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Problems with Breaking a Tenancy Agreement early
Hi, Due to circumstances beyond my control I need to end a tenancy early. I know I have to pay fees etc which I am happy(ish) to pay as its my fault not the landlords. Obviously I want to leave as soon as possible but I feel the landlord is trying to charge too much rent for the flat. About £100 quid more than we are…
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Can I use these circumstances to leave a tenancy early?
My partner is pregnant with twins so we need more bedrooms, so I'm desparate to leave my tenancy 6 months early. The landlord won't budge but since asking him, the following has happened. I asked for details of the bond protection scheme. He hadn't put it in one, he has now (6 months into tenancy). I had a letter today…
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Letter to Housing Association
Hello I was wondering if some of you might be able to help me? I live in my parents 3 bedroom council house with my mum, dad, 2 brothers, my girlfriend and my 10 week old son. My girlfriend and I are trying to get a flat of our own for us and my son, we both work full time (well she's on maternity leave). We can't afford…
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Hi there I'm a forum newbie!!
Hi folks Just a quick message before I head to bed. How are you all, just registered with this site, it looks pretty good. At the min I've got my house on the market, just on by 8 weeks, of course not much happening as you all know. My estate agent (as well as charging me a fee on completion of sale of 1%) he wants me to…
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Landlord vanishes with my deposit!
I expect this one has been asked before, but I couldn't find it easily. We moved out in March after the private landlord couldn't pay the mortgage and we received eviction notices, leaving us with 5 days to move (the original notices were delivered to the wrong flat, but that's by the by). Landlord promised to pay back…
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How Quick Can a Sale Go Through
Evening,</p> Survey completed and mortgage approval in place. HIP pack received. No chain - me in renting, vendor moved out all ready How quick could the rest of the legal work take and also what is needed? as I'm imagining the searches are within the HIP? Any help much appreciated
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7 out of 10 new homes 'faulty'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7475342.stm interesting read. nothing really that we did'nt already know though....
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Credit Checks for Rental??
I'm about to rent a new flat and the LL wants to do a credit check on me, which she is charging me £40. I have no idea if this is normal practice or not. I don't really want to pay more on top of what is already a high monthly rental, and I don't have a dodgy credit history anyway. I am giving her a deposit of one months…
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Help pls - Estate Agent holding keys & asked if purchaser can go in and measure up
Selling a property, have had solicitors instructed, survey done last week. Had a call today from estate agent office saying the purchasers want to go in tomorrow and measure up but they have no-one in office who can go with the purchaser and asked my permission to allow the purchaser to collect the key from their office…
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How much will a new bathroom add to the value..?
Although we're thinking of moving next year we'd really like to do up the bathroom as it really lets the overall look of the house down. Just out of interest (and we would use neutral schemes to appeal to any future buyers)how much would a freshly installed and tiled bathroom add to the value of a home,if any? We would be…
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selling a commerical property HELP PLEASE
Just about to complete sale on a property we own It was a house & now being used as commerical as has been for at least the past 40years. We inherited this some years ago (10 aprox) & we have never paid ground rent............ we have come up against a problem.... the deeds state that it can't be used as a commerical…
