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Apartment?flat To Let Liverpool One
hi, not sure if this is the right place, i have a 1 bed apartment to let in the new one park west liverpool one development.fully furnished, double bedroom,open plan kitchen.24/7 security and conicierge. 540pm...veedub_cab@hotmail.com:money:
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how to go about Extending ones lease
How do i go about extending the lease to my property - whats the procedure please ? There is currently 73 yrs left I am also a director of the management company that owns the freehold. i own a 25% share (with 3 others) in the management company we all live in the same house which is converted into 4 flats. thanks.
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£270 credit check deposit - non refundable?
A friend of mine, single mother with a part time job and 2 children having split from her husband (druggy!) was looking for a house on benefits. After finding a property, she used a local property managment firm in our local town which she paid £270 credit check deposit which she was told it was non refundable, (didn't…
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Paying six months rent in advance & repossesions
I wonder if anyone clarify the bit in bold below (it's from the forum sticky). I'm thinking of paying 6 months rent in advance for a property via a letting agency. The sentence in bold is a tad ambiguous does it mean the mortgage company is legally obliged to allow me to stay in the property for the full remaining term of…
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How to share someone else's house
A friend would like to share a flat with its owner. She would like it to be in easy reach of Central London. I do not know anyone but I remember that there are agencies and / or web sites that offer say elderly people who would like help in running a home with a person needing cheap accomodation. Does any one know of the…
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have i been totally unrealistic?
hi all, made my first offer on a house today :j :j :j :j :j although i think the vendors e.a are playing stupid beggars :rolleyes: i've posted on here before there is one i cannot stand and i only went and fell in love with a house they were selling, went to view, needed work which was not on details that it was in need of…
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chasing house prices down.
Ive had my house on the market since October 2007 till now and i have had enough of chasing the market down and we have decided to wait a year or two now and try and sell then. We started at 169000 and we finished last week at 130,000, we have now marketed differently and put the price up to 250,000 pound just to keep the…
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Managing my rental property myself
Hello, I have a property I rent out which is currently managed by an estate agent. I am not happy with the service I have received from the estate agent, and also want to save some money on fees as if it wasnt for the ea fees I would be breaking even, whereas at the moment the rent doesnt cover my mortgage. For this reason…
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Shared finances
I'm not sure whether I'm posting this in the right place or not - I need advice as to the fairest way of arranging our finances with two mortgages and one house rented out. My boyfriend is about to move into my house and rent his house out. We both have mortgages on our houses, we both earn roughly the same amount of…
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Internal photos online
Not sure if this has been covered elsewhere, but I've been looking at rightmove / findaproperty recently and it is a major turn-off for me when no internal photos of the property are shown. Although 'kerb-appeal' (God help me for using that phrase!) is most important to me, I'd really like to see the inside of somewhere…
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Flatshares
I have been looking for a while for a flatshare to move into. I did rent alone before but it is far too expensive and I decided to look for a flatshare to try get my money situation sorted out. Back at my mums just now. Is anyone else finding that the flatshares around at the moment seem to be pretty poor? I get the…
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Advice please on approaching selling estate agent
Hello guys, I've lurked around this excellent site for sometime and now I'd like to ask a little advice from all you experts out there. We put our house on the market about two weeks ago - it's a 3 bed semi - perfect first time buy house in Northern Ireland. Despite the current climate, I received an offer on the house on…
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Thinking About Renting my Flat Out
Hi peeps, I am doing a quick back of the cigarette packet calculation on whether to rent out my flat (rather then sell and move nto rented myself) There is a service charge payable of £120 per month. As a landlord would you expect this expense to be paid separately by yr tenants? Or should the rent charged include this?…
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Excessive noise due to refurbishment next door
Hi all , just a quick one. I'm a private tenant and the council are refurbishing the apartment next to us but the noise is absolutely dreadful. Its also scaring the crap out of my daughter and the walls are actually vibrating.... Is there any steps i can take or any regulations they must adhere to regarding noise. We…
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Renting through Discount letting
Heard alot of good things about discount letting (http://www.discountletting.co.uk/ so decided to try them out as 1 of my properties going empty soon.. They apparently offer a discount (which I can't find!) if you are a member of 'The Telegraph Property Club' (http://propertyclub.telegraph.co.uk) and some other paid…
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Extending an AST?
Hi, I have a few questions regarding continued tenancy after the initial 6 months of an AST. The initial tenancy was for 6 months, which I believe is standard. When we signed up to this, there was an additional sheet stating that the landlord required possession of the flat after this initial 6 months. We have been living…
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Options Needed
Hi Everyone I'm hoping for some advice or ideas to help with my current situation: My wife and I own our property, a 2 bedroom flat, we were in the fortunate position about a year ago to pay off the mortgage, the flat itself has been on the market for about 18 months to date and at the time it was seen as a good idea as we…
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Rented flat being repossessed
I came home after a weekend away to find a letter addressed to the occupier which I opened (as I am the occupier) which stated that a date had been set for the repossession hearing for the flat which I let. This came completely out of the blue and I am still a bit shocked now. It would be great if you could help answer a…
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Buy-to-let?
I know this topic is covered quite a bit however I am looking to buy a house in a student area of a growing universtity that has a shortage of accomodation. Is the buy-to-let model still viable? On the face of it the figures add up but I just need some advise on people's experience with the hidden costs/problems? Thanks
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Gazumped
Hi all Just wanted to update you on our house purchase: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1509529 http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1495635 We've been gazumped! It wasn't a nice experience, I know we're not the first and won't be the last, and we're trying to learn some lessons from…
