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Lazy Estate Agent - My rights?
I currently rent a flat in London and last month my period of tenancy expired. Today I received a letter from the managing estate agents (that had cheekily been dated the 30th of April) containing the contract for renewal. Having suspected my agreement had expired I have been waiting for this letter whilst effectively…
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Rent been taking out 2 days early..weve been charged as its bounced
:mad:Im fuming our ernt has been taken out 2 days early and we dont have it till tommorrow. So the bank have charged us £38.00 and bounced our rent! Im so angry. We have the money in there today ready for the 14th (tommorrow) Im our contract it says the 14th of every month!! Whats my rights? What happens? Will the letting…
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First house viewing ever - question
Hi My boyfriend and I are starting to look at houses (we are FTBs) and we have our first viewing today, and I have a question about how we deal with agent during the viewing. It's a 2-bed house that needs complete refurbishment but is in a great location that doesn't normally have houses in our price range. Obviously we…
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How to get on the property ladder?!?!?!
Hey all, you may have seen my previous post about Moat's funding running out & that we are in an awkward situation. We are currently trying to buy using the mychoicehomebuy scheme. I just wondered if there are any other schemes/ways we can get our foot on the property ladder? We currently pay £725 a month rent with council…
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Obtaining a HIP pack
Hello Hoping someone can point me in the right direction please. I have had all the blurb from the 3 EA's who have come round but as an MSE'r I am quite sure that ordering my own HIP will be cheaper. The EA's obviously have to add their markup. I am a bit scared of just getting the cheapest and finding out further down the…
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Who pays the ground rent? Tenant or Landlord
Hello, I'm a tenant and a few months ago I accidentally opened a letter addressed to the landlord and it mentioned that the ground rent was overdue so I forwarded it to the estate agent to deal with. Today i recieved another letter addressed to the landlored, i reconginised the postmark and it cleary said through the…
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open plan
Hi All, I've got a 40yr old bungalow, typical estate type, open plan front gardens, my question does anyone know if it is possible to put up a fence/wall or is there something in the deeds or planning which would stop me? I know you can grow a hedge etc. without any problem. I could phone planning dept but thought i would…
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what would you offer?
After 3 months on the market, we have accepted an offer on our property of only 4 grand under the asking price. we have seen a 2 bedroom semi that we like. it is up for £110,000. it has only come up for sale a week ago, but the property has been empty for 2 years, as the owner died and apparently his ex-wife and girlfriend…
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Landlord pressuring to sign for another 12 months
We have lived in our current rented propery for 12 months and wanted to continue on a rolling periodic tennancy. We are good tennants, since we have been in the house, we have our own company and have completed maintenance work to the value of about £5,000, as it was quicker to get it done ourselves than wait for anyone…
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Tax on renting proprty
Some advice needed please! Have just started to rent my property two months now which used to be my main residence for 4 years but am now living with relatives. Do I have to pay normal tax on this only? Heard a few differnet things in regards to what I can get tax free but nothing definate. Do I still get £4250 tax free as…
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Supposed to be exchanging on repo tomorrow!!
Hi - Just looking for a bit of advise - we are currently in the process of buying a repo without selling our house 1st so have had to lend the 25% deposit from family with the intention of repaying them when our house sells. The repo was on the market for £149950 and we offered £145k and were told that 2 other people had…
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Rental Notice Advice
I am looking at moving out of the property i am currently renting but am having trouble tieing in convenient dates for moving. my problem is if i give notice on the 12th june i get back off holiday on the 10th july so dont really want to move two days after getting back but if i give notice 12th july i am into august…
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AST unfurnished Document - does anyone have one?
Just thinking of renting out my home for the first time. Wondered if anyone had an uptodate comprehensive AST agreement (unfurnished) form anywhere on a website that I could download ? Ive got a copy of the RLA one, but its for 2004, and didnt know if there was a more up to date one? Regards:money:
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Help!!! Offer on a new build
Hi, my partner and I have made an offer on a new build and it has been rejected, ok we offered 20% less than the asking price but we don't think we were taken very seriously. We are ready to proceed with no house to sell, we have a mortgage offer approved and have plenty of money to reserve and deposit etc etc... My…
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what to do?
Hi there! I found the flat I liked. This flat are being advertised in 2 agencies - 117.950 (under offer) in one agency and offers in excess of 117.950. This flat is on sell for 6 months now and they dropped price from £144.500, to 139 k, 125 k 117.950k. Somebody is in process of buying this property. I was planning to make…
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Have I done the right thing
OK so I'm panicing now. I moved out of my flat just under 2 weeks ago. Cleaned the flat thoroughly (including spending 3 hours scrubbing the oven clean) to ensure everything looked good and as it was when I arrived. Yesterday I heard back from the letting agent (who did an inspection the day I moved out that basically just…
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Considering offer
Hi guys I am considering an offer and would welcome your thoughts - my flat has been up 3 weeks 3 viewings 1 offer (flat in Romford) it's on market for £119k first offer came through as £105 which I declined they have come back with a final offer of £110 - my minimum is £115 which gives me a clear £70k profit to put into a…
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renting out flat privately
I am thinking of renting out my flat privately rather then using an agent. Anyone got any good advice tips? Or do you think i should just pay an agent to do all the work for me? I been doing a little research and it seems not as straight forward as find a tenant and your done.
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Landregistry-registration fraud?
Does anyone know what protections there are in place to prevent someone from simply filling in the relevant forms and claiming ownership,part ownership or an interest in a property? http://www1.landregistry.gov.uk/assets/library/documents/public_guide_017.pdf Does anyone know if this has happened in the past?
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Am I missing something about Rightmove?
They currently claim to have 18 million visitors per month. They also claim to have over 1 million properties listed on their site. According to my basic grasp of arithmetic and averages, that means that each property gets visited - on average - by 18 visitors per month; which doesn't strike me as a lot. Am I missing…
